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Windows 7 Does not recognise my External HD after installing SSD
Hi all,
I am sorry to raise this issue again, but I have searched the forum and tried everything I can find. I recently tried to upgrade my computer by installing a new OCZ Agility III SSD. I didn't really want to reinstall windows as it is an OEM install and I dont have the disk. I therefore took the supposedly easy way out and bought a OCZ SSD Upgrade kit which contained Acronis True Image HD software to "Easily Clone and Transfer Data" as per the front of the box.
The existing drives were 2 Seagate 500GB drive in a RAID0 Configuration
All seemed to go well with cloning the drive, booting off the SSD until I noticed that no mass storage devices I have were being recognised anymore, all of which worked perfectly with the old RAID0 drives.
I have tried everything that I can find on this forum to no avail, however, I am not a computer expert, but a reasonably competent home user. On my motherboard (Foxconn H67MP), I have 2 yellow and 4 blue SATA ports. At the moment, I have the SSD in a blue port and have left the old disks in a RAID array on the yellow ones as I think they are the only ports that support RAID.
During the installation, I repartitioned the RAID drives to create a backup partition which may or may not be relevant?
I have 3 External HD, 2 WD and an Iomega all of which worked before installing the SSD. The WDs are USB powered and the Iomega (shows in device manager as Samsung HD503HI) is externally powered but none of them show in disk management.
I can see the drives in device manager with a yellow warning triangle, however not in disk management. I have tried uninstalling the drives, the USB controllers, disabling power management
Any suggestions would be gratefully received as I am at the point of giving up.
Edit: I do have the original recovery disk
Last edited by Walesnet; 27 Dec 2012 at 13:23.