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HDD Shows up in Bios, but not Disk Management

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  • BIOS
  • Disk Management
  • Storage
  • Hard Drives
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November 29, 2013 1:37:53 AM

My computer is a Toshiba Qosmio X875. It came with two 500gb hard drives. It's running Windows 8.

My old computer was some old Toshiba Satellite. It had a 640gb hard drive. It ran Windows 7.

After plenty of wear and tear, the old Satellite died on me. I want to move some things on the 640gb hard drive from that onto one of my new drives. However, when I replace the extra 500gb in the Qosmio with the 640gb drive, it isn't shown in My Computer or Disk Management. When I open up BIOS, the drive is visible.

I've searched around the web and there are plenty of solutions that either don't work for me or I just don't know enough about what I'm doing to find what I need. If it's a simple driver issue, I have no idea where to go, what to get, or even what to look for.

I'm not too computer savvy, so please walk me through everything as if I'm a young child.

I was thinking about getting a USB Adapter for the Hard Drive and hope my computer can recognize it then or at least have my roommate's computer recognize it and move the data over to his machine, but I wouldn't be able to go pick one up for a week or so and I'd very much like to get this done sooner rather than later.

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a c 298 G Storage
November 29, 2013 1:06:28 PM

How did you attached the 640GB drive with the Lappy ?
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November 29, 2013 4:12:04 PM

lonewolf7 said:
How did you attached the 640GB drive with the Lappy ?


Put it inside?
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November 30, 2013 8:13:38 AM

I don't wish to bump, but does anyone have some more information?
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a c 298 G Storage
November 30, 2013 10:41:00 AM

Did you make the 640GB HDD as a second HDD in boot order priority in BIOS ? And check the connections again. Try it (640GB HDD) on another system preferably a desktop as a second HDD, see if it is visible there. Else the HDD may have died.

Or you could use this tool : http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.h...
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