Windows 7 wont recognize hdd

[dateach]

changed out the mb and cpu, leaving 4 existing 1 Tb drives. Loaded WIN7 on new SSD without trouble.

bios recognizes all HDD, but windows seems to only detect 1st HDD, and will not regognize the other 3.

Can you help?

 

[Gamoholic]

Did you have any kind of RAID?

 

[dateach]

Nope, tried it once, but wound up costing me two hard drives that I could not even reformat.

But, short answer is no.

Tom

ps, WIN7 is 64 bit.

SSD for boot drive works great. Of the 4 HDD from old system (same WIN7) one drive works great, other 3 don't show up in Windows Explorer. Tried swapping power and data connectors. They do show up in bios and in Device Manager under disk drives.

Tom

 

[Gamoholic]

Right-click on Computer --> Manage --> Disk Management
Do they show up in there? If so, what is their status?

 

[dateach]

Good Morning Gamoholic.

Thank you for your continuing interest in my problem.

Disk Management lists my 4 HDD, but only identifies number 4 on their list. That one works just fine, and is the exact same as the other 3 which used to work, but now don't.

They show up as:

Disk # (1 - 3)
Dynamic (with an exclamation point (!) on a yellow triangle)
Foreign

All of that is in a box on the left, with nothing on the right. My good HDD is listed as:

General Data (E
931 GB NTFS
Healthy (Primary Partition)

NOTE: This is the correct name of the HDD, and none of them have more than 1 partition.

Thanks, Tom

 

[Gamoholic]

In Disk Management right-click the disks and select "Import Foreign Disk".

 

[dateach]

Hi Gam...

That did it! All four drives spin up and all data is intact. I have been building and rebuilding computers for a long time, and this is the first time I have run into "Foreign Disk".

Thanks a bunch,

Tom


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