PC Help - Hard Drive not recognised.

Iconic944ss · #1 19-Jul-2006, 21:17

Hmmm...I've suffered something similar in the past and had to reconfigure the jumpers on the drives (physically - on the pins) so that only one was 'master' and the other were all slaves.

There are some useful format / diag utils on the Maxtor website if I remember right.

Good luck - Frank

khushy · #2 19-Jul-2006, 21:24

Control Panel
Administrative Tools
Computer Management
Then goto the Disk M anagement Section
Find the drive

then enable it!!!

Bob's your uncle!!!

khushy · #3 19-Jul-2006, 21:26

drive you need to enable and pick the right option

Guido · #4 20-Jul-2006, 20:21

Thanks for your response Khush,

But as per my above detail, the drive is not listed in Computer Management but does appear in Device Manager. That means I can't initialize or partition it although this has alreay been done anyway when I first installed that drive. Wouldn't want to do it again if I could for fear of wiping all my data.

Thanks, Guy

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