SATA II HDD recognized in device manager & BIOS, but NOT win explo

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mjs!

My secondary HDD (music, pictures, etc.) spontaneously disappeared from
windows explorer yesterday. It is still shown in device manager and still
comes up in BIOS, but not Windows Explorer. I checked all of the cables and
rebooted the computer, which was extremely slow. The HDD is still gone.

It is a 500 GB Western Digital WD5000KS SATA II hard drive with about 350 GB
worth of data on it. Like I said, this happened spontaneously, i.e. not after
any hardware or software changes.

Thanks in advance for your help!

2.67 GHz Core 2 Duo
Asus P5N32-SLI Premium
Windows Vista Ultimate
 
mjs! said:
My secondary HDD (music, pictures, etc.) spontaneously disappeared from
windows explorer yesterday. It is still shown in device manager and still
comes up in BIOS, but not Windows Explorer. I checked all of the cables
and
rebooted the computer, which was extremely slow. The HDD is still gone.

It is a 500 GB Western Digital WD5000KS SATA II hard drive with about 350
GB
worth of data on it. Like I said, this happened spontaneously, i.e. not
after
any hardware or software changes.

Thanks in advance for your help!

2.67 GHz Core 2 Duo
Asus P5N32-SLI Premium
Windows Vista Ultimate
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Try this..

Right click on 'Computer'

Select 'Manage'

When the 'Computer Management' window opens, look to see if the drive has
been assigned a letter, and that the description is 'healthy'.

If there is no letter assigned. right click on the drive diagram in
question..

Select 'Change drive letter.. ' and then assign a letter..


If it hasn't

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