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I agree Jack. I have two drives with separate OS's and both have Active Partitions! I too had trouble reading the detail on the screenshot.
Drives not showing, folders/file icons/thumbnails not showing
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Fair enough
I suspected that might be true.
I didn't realise that the OP had two separate operating systems on 2 separate drives.
It doesn't say that in their "My System Specs".
I have all of my operating systems on the same HDD (I can only use one at a time anyway) and thus only one Active partition.Last edited by lehnerus2000; 27 May 2013 at 23:05. Reason: Title
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Perhaps I wasn't clear, but it shouldn't matter how many active/non active drives I currently have because in my original post I was trying to say I installed with only one drive and that even with only 1 drive physically plugged into the computer, the problem still occurs. In other words, even if I unplug every sata cable except the drive Win7 is installed on, the same problem still occurs, in which case it is irrelevant if there are other drives in disk management because the same problem happens when there's only one.
Thanks everyone for the assistance so far, still trying to get it working.
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Mechanical/Physical Checks?
Are you sure that drive is in good condition?
Have you tried swapping the drive SATA connections to different sockets on your motherboard?
Have you tried different SATA cables?
Have you tried different power cables?
I've got an issue with my current motherboard.
Sometimes some of the SATA ports go a bit flaky (a heat problem with the controller?).
When the problem happens, if I click on a drive in Windows Explorer, I experience the symptoms similar to the ones you describe (i.e. it takes ages for the folders to appear).
Luckily, 3 of the ports seem to be resistant to this issue and I haven't had any problems since I swapped everything into a new case.
I must have accidentally selected the reliable ports.
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