Hi to all, I have read the sticky on the top of the board about newly installed drives not being visible in the OS. My problem is that I have just reinstalled my system (Asus P9X79 mobo, Sandisk SSD w OS and 2 Western Digital 1TB drives). Windows explorer sees the OS SSD (obviously) but shows only 1 out of 2 physical WD drives. These WD drives are both 1 TB size. The second drive has loads of data on it that was previously put there and I would hate to lose it, so I need a way to make this drive visible again in Windows explorer without having to wipe it by creating a new partition.
It would be highly doubtful that there is a wire disconnected or anything because I didn't move my pc at any time from the moment I began reinstalling and it was there right before the reinstall. I am running Win7 pro x64.
I have looked in Disk Management and in the bottom pane I see what I believe to be the missing drive, it is shown as: Disk 2 - Dynamic - Foreign, and it has a blank field next to in, instead of the blue line and the "/////" showing the disk allocation. I have checked in the BIOS and there it is shown as SATA3G_3 (Blue). In the top of the SATA configuration window in the BIOS, SATA mode is set to AHCI and SMART status check is enabled.
I figured that the problem would have been solved by installing all drivers that I have on my Asus mobo support dvd, particularly the disk unlocker (but this only applies to larger +2TB drives it seems) and sata management drivers, but this isn't the case. Please help If I failed to mention any parameters I'll try to reply asap.
It would be highly doubtful that there is a wire disconnected or anything because I didn't move my pc at any time from the moment I began reinstalling and it was there right before the reinstall. I am running Win7 pro x64.
I have looked in Disk Management and in the bottom pane I see what I believe to be the missing drive, it is shown as: Disk 2 - Dynamic - Foreign, and it has a blank field next to in, instead of the blue line and the "/////" showing the disk allocation. I have checked in the BIOS and there it is shown as SATA3G_3 (Blue). In the top of the SATA configuration window in the BIOS, SATA mode is set to AHCI and SMART status check is enabled.
I figured that the problem would have been solved by installing all drivers that I have on my Asus mobo support dvd, particularly the disk unlocker (but this only applies to larger +2TB drives it seems) and sata management drivers, but this isn't the case. Please help If I failed to mention any parameters I'll try to reply asap.