HDD is Missing

Hi all,
I have a missing hdd(1 Tera WD), I can see it in the device manager and BIOS but it does not show up in Computer or Disk Management. In the device manager it says its working fine, I tried changing the drive letters of my other drive(but not my c as i think it is unwise to do it) and the cd drive but no difference.
I also tried swapping the SATA cable and updating the BIOS and motherboard drivers but to no avail, if anyone can help i would be forever grateful. Thanks

vinny993 said:

Hi all,
I have a missing hdd(1 Tera WD), I can see it in the device manager and BIOS but it does not show up in Computer or Disk Management. In the device manager it says its working fine, I tried changing the drive letters of my other drive(but not my c as i think it is unwise to do it) and the cd drive but no difference.
I also tried swapping the SATA cable and updating the BIOS and motherboard drivers but to no avail, if anyone can help i would be forever grateful. Thanks

Whats the 'label' and drive letter of it as seen in disk mgmnt? Is it formated (in ntfs)?

thanks

Ken

Thanks for the reply ken,
It does not show up at all in Disk Management Just in Device manager and the bios. I had the hdd working with xp and it worked fine. I just upgraded to Windows 7 today and thats when the problem came up.

yes I did that also, its a weird one.

vinny993 said:

Thanks for the reply ken,
It does not show up at all in Disk Management Just in Device manager and the bios. I had the hdd working with xp and it worked fine. I just upgraded to Windows 7 today and thats when the problem came up.

Is it an internal drive? have you upgraded the usb drivers, the bios, the chipset, etc

Ken

yes it's internal, and yes to all the updates too.

ok Ken I'll give it a go, I'll let you know asap.