SATA HD not showing up in windows explorer

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I have just set up a new computer and I am trying to retrieve data from old
HD. I have installed the old HD and it is recognized by the MOBO and it also
shows up in device manager. The thing is I can't access it. It does not show
up in windows explorer.

I have 2 HD both are SATA drives. Both show up in device manager. only the
main one with windows on it shows up in windows explorer.

any suggestion how I get it to show up in windows explorer so I can access it?

Thanks,
Marc
 
Marc W. said:
I have just set up a new computer and I am trying to retrieve data from old
HD. I have installed the old HD and it is recognized by the MOBO and it
also shows up in device manager. The thing is I can't access it. It does
not show up in windows explorer.
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I have 2 HD both are SATA drives. Both show up in device manager. only the
main one with windows on it shows up in windows explorer.
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any suggestion how I get it to show up in windows explorer so I can access
it?XP has been known to give two drives the same letter assignment. If you can
see them in your drive manager make your old one letter Q or X something
away from the beginning of the alphabet.
 
I went into disk management and the drive does not have a letter. When i
right click on the drive I do not get the option to change the drive letter.
It also says 149Gb unallocated. This drive was in an old computer running
just fine. I have not reformatted it or partitioned it. It should still have
all the data on it.

Thank you for your suggestion. Any others?
 
You might only need to assign ownership of the drive/folders to a current
user on your computer. It's a security function, hiding the drive in the
same way XP hides the personal folders of one user on the computer from the
other users. Since the creator-owner of that drive does not exist as a user
on your computer you have to take over ownership in order to access the
contents. In XP Pro, Simple file sharing will need to be turned off in order
to do this. Instructions here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421/en-us
 
Marc W. said:
I went into disk management and the drive does not have a letter. When i
right click on the drive I do not get the option to change the drive
letter.
It also says 149Gb unallocated. This drive was in an old computer running
just fine. I have not reformatted it or partitioned it. It should still
have
all the data on it.

Thank you for your suggestion. Any others?
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Go back into Disk Mgmt. and right click on the drive then Properties. I'm
able to change mine and my 3 partitions all have letters. Using TweakUI is
another wqay to change the drive letter I believe. This type of problem
seems more common when you have an external hdd attached via USB. Sometimes
you can try a ton of different things and nothing works. Good luck.
 
XP requires special drivers for most SATA hard drives.

During the installation you probably hit F6 to load these from a floppy for
the primary hard drive.

If the other hard drive is not connected to the same type of disk
controller, then you might need to install drivers for that controller.

Note that many motherboards come with multiple disk controllers. Check the
manual for the new motherboard for more information.
 
Is there a "connect" setting??
peter
Marc W. said:
I went into disk management and the drive does not have a letter. When i
right click on the drive I do not get the option to change the drive
letter.
It also says 149Gb unallocated. This drive was in an old computer running
just fine. I have not reformatted it or partitioned it. It should still
have
all the data on it.

Thank you for your suggestion. Any others?
Click to expand...
 
Thank you all for your responses.

Bob, both HD are SATA drives I installed the drivers for xp from the MOBO
disk.

Peter, not sure where you want me to look for the connect option. in disk
managment I get the options of: convert to dynamic disk..., properties, help;
if I right click on the portion of the screen that says "disk 1; basic; 149
GB; Online.
If I right click on the portion of the screen that has 149GB unallocated I
get these options: New partition, properties, help.

smoker, when I click on properties I just get the normal tabs and options
that you get when you do driver update. when I click on the drive that is
working I get a whole different set of options. What is tweak UI?

ralfG, I am going to try your suggestions next. I'll let you all know if and
what works.

Thanks again for all your suggestions
 
you checked the right place...sometimes a SATA drive is listed as "offline"
and a connect(?) option comes up to take it online.But yours is already
online.
peter
 
ok still stuck. I am unable to select the drive to perform the task ralfG
suggested. I even went into safe mode and made sure I was logged on as the
administrator so I had access to everything.

I was looking at the driver issue and it is using the default microsoft
drivers. I will check maxtor's website. As for what Bob was saying, could
there be two different drivers that need to be loaded in the bios? How do I
do this?

Thanks again for all the help :0)
 
Did you turn on show hidden, protected and system files in My
Computer-Tools-Folder options?
That's about the only other thing I can think of.
 
Did you turn on show hidden, protected and system files in My
Computer-Tools-Folder options?
That's about the only other thing I can think of.
 
I did make sure that hidden files were turned on. I made sure that nothing
was hidden at all.

Thank you though. I"m sure I'm just missing some little thing.
 
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