cant see hard drives in disk management or in device manager.

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  1. mjf
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    Windows 7x64 Home Premium SP1
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    If I understand you cannot see the drives in Windows Explorer. Device Manager recognises the drives.

    Click the bottom left start orb and type "Disk management".
    Do you see your drives but no letter then (not for recovery or system reserved if you have one) right click and assign a letter.

    A screen shot of Disk Management would be useful. Use the Windows snipping tool and the little paper clip icon on the top of the post to make and upload the screen shot.
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  3. dsperber
    Posts : 2,752
    Windows 7 Pro x64 (1), Win7 Pro X64 (2)
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    wd5fdl said:
    i have the same problem there is nothing displayed
    (cant see drives )you dont need pictures...
    please we need a fix for this by the way ABSOLUTLY ALL DRIVES
    are missing (cant see drives )nothing is displayed ...EVER...
    your help appreciated tnx gene
    I'm afraid I don't follow...

    Do you have Win7 installed? Is it operational?

    If you have a working machine, I strongly urge you to download [free] Partition Wizard Home Edition v5.2 from this page. It will install and run under WinXP and Win7, both 32-bit and 64-bit.

    Also on that same page you can download an ISO file for a standalone boot version of Partition Wizard, which you can burn to a CD so that you can boot to it. Partition Wizard works easily well both under Windows as well as from the standalone boot (only difference is that the standalone version doesn't show "drive letters" for your drives and partitions, as you'd see under the Windows version).

    If you boot to that standalone version, it will show you exactly what's on your hard drive(s). It will also show whether the partitions are primary or logical, and what is the "active" partition (to which your BIOS boots).

    We need to see what you've got... in some way. If you have an operational Windows, install Partition Wizard and launch it... and take a screenshot and post it here. If you don't have an operational Windows just boot to the standalone Partition Wizard CD and take a photograph, and post the photograph here.

    We need more info, in order to help.
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  4. dsperber
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    Windows 7 Pro x64 (1), Win7 Pro X64 (2)
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    wd5fdl said:
    the problem is in windows 7 pro 64
    everything is fine in the device manager
    all drives show in my computer...
    now i know there is a command in
    the command promped to change the cd drive
    drive letter but i dont remember the syntaxed
    there was a website the had the answer
    but i cant find it anymore... had the same problem before but dont remember what i did to fix it i think i just reinstallrd window 7
    Are you talking about Start -> Run -> DISKMGMT.MSC?

    That's the Disk Management program in Windows, and will allow you to change the drive letters for everything (except for the boot drive/partition), including your CD drive letter.
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  6. mjf
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    Windows 7x64 Home Premium SP1
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    Post a Disk Management screenshot
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