I am dual booting with Windows 7 RC and Windows XP Pro. In XP my second hard drive is seen but not in Windows 7. I tried looking in Device manager and it is not listed. I tried looking in Disc Manager and it is not listed. I also tried using Disk manager in XP to format the drive and changed the drive letter to Z and still it's not showing up. Any ideas?
My main drive is a 1 terabyte WD Black my second drive, that is not showing up, is a Hitachi Deskstar 160 gig 7200 rpm serial ata. And it is formatted in NTFS
I don't know what would have changed but after waking my computer from sleep mode windows found new hardware and installed the hard drive. Thanks for the help anyway guys.
I like the drive. The speed increase is noticeable and it's quiet. I have filled 300 gigs of the drive so far. Every hard drive I've bought over the years I thought I would never fill, but programs just keep getting larger and I keep collecting files, next thing I know I'm buying another. So the short answer is yeah I think I will fill it after a couple years.
I rebooted my computer and the hard drive isn't showing up againI don't know what to think now.
Could be your system boots so fast, the bios have no time to recognise the drive.
(or the drive reports so slow to Bios)
Go into bios and look for disk wait states or something similar.
Warning! Not memory waitstates, that's completely other matter.
If you are reluctant to enter the bios or unsure, post your mainboards brand and type.
I will look for the manual and tell you what to do.
greetz.
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