ok so my i have 2 harddrives on my computer a 20 gb and a 200gb now i had to partiton the 200gb hard drive and have one read 119gb and 69 gb i know that doesnt add up to 200gb and i have no idea where that extra gigs are but anywho thats not the problem... a few months ago the 119 gb harddrive dissapeared its not being read on my computer but the other half of it, the 69 gb one, is totally fine... its the same harddrive what the hell why wont my computer read it ive asked around and no one can help me... id like to retrive it back since i have soo many videos i was editing on that harddrive and id hate to see all my work go to waste... i dont wanna take it in some where cause i have no money... anyone have any advise? or can help me out with this problem?
2006-09-30 18:28:32 · 9 answers · asked by AJX² 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
i forgot to mention that i opened it up and checked everthing from the cables to the jumpers i cant find out whats going on with it.... i wanna try and retrive it all my data.
2006-09-30 18:42:06 · update #1
Your harddrive could be "dis-armed" of its drive letter.
Try this one.
On your desktop, right-click "My Computer",
From the menu, choose "Manage"
In the Computer Management Dialogue box, under "Storage", Choose "Disk Management"
In the right-side of the same page, find your harddrive. (If it is healthy, it should be there)
Right-click on it, choose "Change Drive Letter and Paths....."
Click the "Change" Button
In the next panel, assign an unused letter to you 119GB HD,
Viola, it's done.
2006-09-30 19:30:12 · answer #1 · answered by es3.1415926535 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Alright this is a somewhat easy thing to.
Pop in your windows installer disk, and turn of your computer. Turn it back on with the CD in it, and let it boot from CD. Once the CD runs, you'll see the Microsoft blueish screen, and there will be a whole bunch a text at the bottom going buy. Watch for "Install 3rd party RAID" and it will be followed by a "Hit the F9 KEY". Sorry I'm not sure if it's really f9, just watch. When you hit it, it will ask you which hard drive, pick your 20 GB one. And all should be fine when it is done.
The reason you have to do this is because windows doesn't support hard drives over 120 MB, by default. That is why you had to partition it b4 into separate drives. It Prolly went wacko for some crazy reason.
2006-10-01 01:37:17 · answer #2 · answered by werd75na 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2006-10-01 04:29:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
do you have the jumpers set on the second hard drive to secondary or slave? I am assuming that the smaller drive was in your puter to begin with and you added the larger drive. Check on the back end of the large drive and see where the little jumper is set. it should be set on secondary or slave. If it is not, then look on the casing and see what pins to use to set it to secondary. If it is set to secondary, you may need to check the connections, ide cables, power cables and such, If thats a bust call on your local puter geek.
2006-10-01 01:38:30 · answer #4 · answered by mr_fixit_11 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes motherboard doesn't support large hard drive. Sometimes BIOS fails to detect large hard drives (Old Motherboard's BIOS). In this case I recommend to upgrade ur BIOS software (of course do it very carefully coz if anything goes wrong, ur pc may damage forever). Most of the hard disk detaction problems are fixed by upgrading BIOS software. So at first try this process. If fails, try to install your hard disk in a new PC (new pc means new hardwares). Hope all problems will be solved. Re check your jumper setting. Thank you for your good question.
2006-10-01 01:44:19 · answer #5 · answered by SiS 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have this problem with my 300 gig drive, let me guess you have an Intel motherboard? Depending on the drive and motherboard, depends on what you need to do. Look on the manufactures website and they should tell you what to download to fix it.
Windows XP only reads upto 131 Gigs, If I remember correctly. But can "forget" sometimes that it is paritioned. Also try and intstall SP2, that seemed to help me a lot with my problems, that and Intel Acclerator.
2006-10-01 01:34:27 · answer #6 · answered by scare_all 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This is a common problem. Check the website of the drive manufacturer. All drive manufacturers will tell you what to do.
2006-10-01 01:37:43 · answer #7 · answered by Bigi Bal 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try reinstalling all your system drivers and so on. Look around for the discs that came with your computer and reinstall them (apart from the OS).
Also try booting in safe-mode or something.
Hope that helps.
2006-10-01 01:34:50 · answer #8 · answered by storysandstones 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Did one of the cables or jumpers come loose?
2006-10-01 01:35:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋