Hard drive not seen in My Computer

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A new install of XP Pro will not see my Maxtor D drive. Computer Management
sees the drive and says it has files, active and healthy.NTFS but no drive
letter.Can only delete partition. What needs to be done so drive is useable?
Jumpers are right and have moved to IDE2 channel. Bios sees the drive right
but XP will not. What to do to see and use this drive with out loss of files?
 
Hi:

If you go to Disk management, do you see the HDD? It apperas as a disk 1,
basic and online. Which logical unt has the partition or partitions?
 
I am working on an emachines computer that had a power supply replaced.
Since then it will not boot past the Bios Logo Screen. I have reseated all
the cards, cables and connections and still no avail. It is running a
Celeron 1.1Ghz processor on a intel 810e system board. OS is XP home. I
cannot boot off CD or Floppy and hard drive light never comes on and drive
does not spin. I have Winternals and have tried to boot that up but once
again, no boot from CD. Any Ideas?


Thanks
Tyler
 
TinkersToys said:
A new install of XP Pro will not see my Maxtor D drive. Computer Management
sees the drive and says it has files, active and healthy.NTFS but no drive
letter.Can only delete partition. What needs to be done so drive is
useable?
Jumpers are right and have moved to IDE2 channel. Bios sees the drive
right
but XP will not. What to do to see and use this drive with out loss of
files?
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TinkersToys:
We'll assume the HDD is non-defective, but in the meantime why don't you
download the Maxtor HDD diagnostic and check it out just to make sure.

We'll further assume that your boot drive boots without incident and
functions without any problems, right?

So do this...

Disconnect the Maxtor and boot only with your boot drive connected.

Shut down the machine and reconnect the Maxtor as a secondary HDD. Make
absolutely
certain you've correctly connected & configured that HDD. I assume you
originally connected/configured it as Primary Slave.

If still no go, try connecting the HDD as Secondary Master, also as
Secondary Slave. Try both Cable Select & Master/Slave jumper positions.

What about trying a different data cable?

You say the Maxtor has files on it. Where did those files come from? Another
machine? Or was it working in this machine and all of a sudden this
non-recognition problem arose? Do you have another machine so that you can
install the Maxtor as a secondary HDD in that machine to see if there's a
similar non-recognition problem?

I just noticed that you indicated this is a new install of XP. Was the
Maxtor connected during the time you installed the OS? That could be a
problem. If possible, one should always disconnect all secondary storage
devices when XP is being installed. Anyway, try the above to see if that
resolves the problem.
Anna
 
I would check the verson of the power supplies. It sounds like you are
missing the -5 volt line on your mobo.This could be that the power supply is
a verson 2 and your Emachine needs a verson 1. Verson 2's do not have the -5
volts line.
 
Anna,
First of all the hard drive is a non defective item and yes, I ran the
Maxtor HDD Diagnostic and it all checks out good. Boot drive works without
incident and functions without any problems. Next, disconnecting the Maxtor
and reconfigurations have all been done with no ability to access the files
on the drive. Have used different cables and different jumper settings.
Even tried the drive on a RAID card, still, XP sees the drive in the disc
manager but my computer does not. The files on this drive were made on this
computer prior to the re-install of the XP and yes the re-install was done
with only one hard drive, one CD Rom drive and one floppy drive connected.
If drive is placed on a second computer system running 2K Pro, drive will be
seen and functional.

So basically something has been written to this drive or not which is
keeping the XP system from seeing this drive correctly. This drive has never
been a boot drive, it has always been a secondary slave file drive.
 
TinkersToys said:
A new install of XP Pro will not see my Maxtor D drive. Computer Management
sees the drive and says it has files, active and healthy.NTFS but no drive
letter.Can only delete partition. What needs to be done so drive is
useable?
Jumpers are right and have moved to IDE2 channel. Bios sees the drive
right
but XP will not. What to do to see and use this drive with out loss of
files?
Click to expand...


TinkersToys said:
Anna,
First of all the hard drive is a non defective item and yes, I ran the
Maxtor HDD Diagnostic and it all checks out good. Boot drive works
without
incident and functions without any problems. Next, disconnecting the
Maxtor
and reconfigurations have all been done with no ability to access the
files
on the drive. Have used different cables and different jumper settings.
Even tried the drive on a RAID card, still, XP sees the drive in the disc
manager but my computer does not. The files on this drive were made on
this
computer prior to the re-install of the XP and yes the re-install was done
with only one hard drive, one CD Rom drive and one floppy drive connected.
If drive is placed on a second computer system running 2K Pro, drive will
be
seen and functional.

So basically something has been written to this drive or not which is
keeping the XP system from seeing this drive correctly. This drive has
never
been a boot drive, it has always been a secondary slave file drive.
Click to expand...


TinkersToys:
Very puzzling. Just as a workaround...

Connect it to the 2K Pro machine, copy (or move) the files to that machine,
return it to your XP machine and delete the partition and then create a new
partition or partitions and format same. Then re:connect it to the 2K Pro
machine and copy (or move) the files back to the Maxtor after which
re:connect it to the XP machine and give it another try.

Not the most elegant solution to be sure (and I'm not even sure it *is* a
solution), but the only thing that comes to mind at the moment.

BTW, what's the model # of this Maxtor?

I just thought of something else. With your boot drive & the Maxtor
connected in the XP machine, access Device Manager, highlight the Disk
drives listing and click on the Action menu item and then the "Scan for
hardware changes" item. Probably won't work, but give it a shot. Try it also
in Disk Management > Action > Rescan disks.
Anna
 
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