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IDE drive not being shown in explorer
IDE drive not being shown in explorer
- I was having lots of issues with my upgrad from Vista 64 to Win7 64, so I decided to reinstall from scratch. Well here is the first problem, I have a Seagate 250 gig IDE drive that is connected and reconized by the disk management, but does not show in explorer, NOTHING. What the H is going on, here in the RC the OS does not list a HARD drive connected directly to the MOTHERBOARD?
This is the 2nd or 3rd time I have seen this, everyone blames it on dual boot, well GUESS WHAT, NO DUAL BOOT
EVGA motherboard using the 780i chipsets, Vista NEVER had this issue, what did you break MS?
Glenn
Now this is completely unbelievable, I rebooted after installing the drivers from nvidia for my storage devices, the IDE drive still did not show in explorer anywhere. I rebooted and went into the bios to make sure the drive was there, shut the pc down, removed the drive, went back into the bios and verified it removed it, shut the pc off, reconnected the drive, rebooted went into the bios, the dirve was setup and reconized, saved and rebooted, got missing boot.ini file, please hit ctrl+alt+del, did that same message, ran the startup repiar, said it was fixed, ran it again it again said it was fixed, still getting that message. WHAT IS GOING ON HERE.
It seems that you have to completely format and reinstall before it reconizes the drive. SECOND INSTALL seems to have fixed it, so, what went wrong the first time, at the installation start it showed the drive as drive 0 on both installs. Why did the explorer not display that drive and now it does. This to me is a bug, unless someone can tell me what else may have caused a clean installation to malfuntion like that.- Edited byganicholson Saturday, June 13, 2009 4:09 PMupdate
- Edited byganicholson Saturday, June 13, 2009 4:31 PMFinal update
- Changed TypeRonnie VernonMVP, ModeratorMonday, June 22, 2009 9:22 AMFeedback
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- Hi There
Well, If your D drive is not shown it maybe the system doesnt assign drive letter to the partition,
Goto Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management (Open it)
Double Click on the Storage then Open Disk Management (Check how many partition is showing there)
Select the Partition from the Down Box to assign a Drive letter,
Right click on the Partition Select Drive Letter and Paths Click ADD
Select Assign the following Drive Letter Click OK. If restart is required Restart your computer. - After 3 rebuilds with this happening each time, why is microsoft not answering why this is happening at all
Every rebuild requires me to use the steps above before a my local PATA drive shows up in any of the explorer windows. This is a bug, it has to be. Again as I pointed out in my first post Vista DID NOT have this issue. Can someone please let me know what the status of this is.
Glenn - I keep all my ATA disks on my server which has an old P4 board, my Windows 7 machine uses only SATA. ATA disks are old and nearing the end of their service life.
Vote if answered or helpful, I am running for Office (joke)! IT/Developer, Windows/Linux/MainframeServer: P4-2GHz, 1.5 GB RAM, Linux Server, need IDE/SATA disks for my chess site
Workstation: Asus M2NBP-VM CSM, Athlon64 X2 4200+ 65W CPU, 2GB RAM, NVIDIA 8600GT, 320GB + 160G backup, Windows 7 Ultimate x64.
