Hard drive not showing in My Computer

i have the same problem as a previously posted in the forum

basically i got my internal hard drive, put it into an enclosure and plugged it in, but as in previous case it is shown in device manager, but not showing up in my computer.

could someone possibly send me a step to step way to set up my the drive.

any help would be greatly appreciated

I split this to it's own topic.

Is this a secondary drive or your only drive?

If it is a secondary drive have you formated and partitioned it yet? It will not show up until you do.

it is my secondary drive, and it has already been formatted and hopefully have data on it.

See if my post here helps at all?
http://www.ozzu.com/sutra363156.html#363156

Try these steps:

1. Right click My Computer and select Manage
2. Click on Disk Management

In the right hand window you should see all of your drives with their drive letter. Assuming you have one internal drive and one CD/DVD drive you should see

C:
D:

If you see another drive listed but without a drive letter do the following:

1. Right click the drive and select Change Drive Letter and Paths
2. Click the Change button.
3. Select a Drive letter and click OK.

Now check My Computer for the drive.

it is not not on the list at the right at the top, but it is at the right at the bottom.
however, it has a black bar across the top saying unallocated. does this mean that i will have to re format the drive?

Not sure, can you give it a drive letter?

no, i cant, the only options they give me are
-new partition
-properties
-help

everything about it seems to be in working order, just cant work out how to apply a letter to it

Are you right clicking the portion with the black bar or the box to the left?

I'm having the same issue.
I have 2 internal drives that work fine (C, & D) and then I have a USB hub on my printer that I changed to P and an external DVD drive that I change to H. The problem drive use to be my primary in my old computer but when I upgraded I got another hard drive as my primary and another "secondary" internal one. I just wanted to transfer all my files over. I did put this drive as an internal but am having the same problems. It shows up in Disk Management but I cannot assign it a drive letter or anything. The only thing that I can do is Delete Partition and Help. This drive has all my files, emails, and other important stuff that I need so I can't format it.

Any suggestion would be wonderful! asap

This may be a dumb question but did you configure the jumper on the drive to Primary/Slave/Cable select?

Did you try putting it into an Ext. enclosure?

Is it the only drive on the cable internally?

Scott

I got the same problem with my secondary hard drive. It has been malfunctioning for quite some time but this time its already not functioning.

Do you think if i reformat and partition it, will it work again?

Im still hoping I could retrieve my files from there.

Thanks.

Anorexea

you can try Hiren's Boot CD

Hi Kimble85, check out following resource that may help you to find solution:

http://free-tips-tricks.blogspot.com/2009/01/hard-drive-not-recognized-found.html

I was just wondering if anyone could help me with a problem im having with my hard drive . It kind of relates to the problem for this thread .. Basically I was using my pc one night when i was getting these error windows. During this time all I was doing was dragging and dropping stuff off one external hard drive to a newer one. So I restarted the pc and could never get back into windows. Kept saying a hard ware or electrical malfunction could of caused the problem . please run the fix or start normally . So I did both . No luck . So I took it to Best buy where i bought the serive plan an they ran a test and the hard drive is bad. They swapped it out for a new one free .. And gave me the old hard drive .. I want to try to recover stuff of it . So I plugged it in my pc . Doesnt show in my computer or management .. But it shows in my bios . Now If i put it in a external enclosure it shows in my computer but takes for ever to double click it . and once it goes through it says this drive is not yet formatted would u like to ? Of course i clicked no . for now . So anyone have any other ideas on what i can do to recover data . My favorites for IE. i mean its not life or death stuff but there are things i cant replace.

By the way .. SATA Hard drive . Im running Vista ..