I have recently installed a third hard drive using a PCI ATA card. This was working fine until about three weeks ago. Device Manager recognises that the third hard drive is still there, Disk Management recognises this too and shows that out of the 250Gb drive, 153Gb is used. It says the drive is Healthy and Active, but it no longer has a drive letter/name. When i right click on it in Disk Management, the only options available are "Delete Partition" and "Help". Obviously I've checked it as the primary slave, again it is recognised by the system, but no drive letter is assigned. It's almost like the computer says "I know it's there, I know there's stuff on it, nothing really is wrong, but no, you can't access it". Other than a full re-format and then trying to file recover the entire hard-drive, anybody got any suggestions??? Please???
2007-02-08 06:54:43 · 3 answers · asked by nathanielbell 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Do as before right click disk management, click help, go to troubleshooting, click a basic disc's status is unreadable, click to update disk info and follow instructions to rescan disks. Have'nt used this myself but probably worth a try
2007-02-08 08:25:32 · answer #1 · answered by DELBOY 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had a similar problem awhile back when i first installed my new hard drive . I although i could access part it was somehow partitioned and i couldn't access 1 part of it ..Check to see you have the latest windows xp service pack 2 (assuming you are using xp ) as that solved my problem with it !
2007-02-08 07:01:49 · answer #2 · answered by MynameisShirl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could take it to another pc and hook it in as a slave to see if the hard drive is good. Once to can get you data off it format it and put it back in your pc. Bring your data back. Also go to the manufacturers web site and download their diagnostics and check the drive with that. Hope that helps.
2007-02-08 07:09:43 · answer #3 · answered by kleclere1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋