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Limper   10-14-2009 at 03:21:34 PM

I installed a HD from my old XP machine into my new Vista machine and PaperDoc gave me some helpful advice. It is installed but it isn't showing up. I checked for drivers and so on but no luck. Under device manager it is showing up and saying it works properly.

Here is what it says in my BIOS.

SATA1: Not Detected
SATA2: [WDC WD7501AALS-00J] Main HD with Vista 64 installed 750 gig
SATA3: Not Detected
SATA4: [MAXTOR STM3200820A] 200 gig XP 32bit
SATA5: Not Detected
SATA6: Not Detected

Now under SATA2 and SATA4 everything is set to Auto except for 32Bit Transfer Data: [Enabled]

SATA Configuration [Enhanced]
Configure SATA as [IDE] (I think my only option is to go to a RAID setup and I know nothing about that)

My Boot Settings

Hard Disk Drives

1rst Drive WDC (my main 750 gig drive with Vista)
2nd Drive MAXTOR (my old drive with XP32) <---- Not sure if these are relevent to the issue at hand.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks


UPDATE:

I did some googling for HD not showing up and I found some info for giving drives a letter and so forth. Under computer management and then disk magament it shows up but it says all four partitions are 100% free which is not true. I am pretty sure if I format I loose all my DATA which is a no no. Is there anything I can do so I can access the drive and copy off all my info that I need. I will then reformat.


Message edited by Limper on 10-14-2009 at 03:39:32 PM
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I would change the Boot Priority for now so that the old drive is not even used for any boot attempt. HOWEVER, I do NOT think this is your problem.

Within Disk Manager it shows you the HDD unit in the lower right pane with its four Partitions, right? Does each of these have a letter name assigned already? If not, you must give them names so Windows can use them. On each Partition in turn, RIGHT_click on it and choose the menu option to Change its name. Give it a letter not already in use. When all four are done, exit out of Disk Manager and reboot. See if they show up now in My Computer.
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Paperdoc   10-14-2009 at 04:28:13 PM
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I would change the Boot Priority for now so that the old drive is not even used for any boot attempt. HOWEVER, I do NOT think this is your problem.

Within Disk Manager it shows you the HDD unit in the lower right pane with its four Partitions, right? Does each of these have a letter name assigned already? If not, you must give them names so Windows can use them. On each Partition in turn, RIGHT_click on it and choose the menu option to Change its name. Give it a letter not already in use. When all four are done, exit out of Disk Manager and reboot. See if they show up now in My Computer.

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Limper   10-14-2009 at 04:35:54 PM

Thanks Again Paperdoc.

It worked. I did what you said and changed boot priority along with giving them drive letters and it worked. Thankyou very much

Gonna start coping off info to my main drive than repartion and format the drive.


Message edited by Limper on 10-14-2009 at 04:40:54 PM
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