Hard drive not recognized in Windows

Here's a stupid question. How can I find it using the Device Manager? I can see all 3 drives as well.

thefabe said:

How are the drives setup on the ide cable 1 as master and the other a slave? And if so which one is not showing up? It would also be nice if you would fill in your system specs in your user cp so we know what all the hardware your running is. thanks

Hi there. I did update my specs. Hopefully it is showing up now?

The MASTER is the one that is showing up. The Slave which is set to cable Select, is the one that isn't showing up.

Try setting the cable select to slave. And see if it makes a difference. Change the pin selection on the back of the drive and set it to slave then it has to be detected as a slave drive.

DocBrown said:

Start >>> type in computer management in the search box

then go to disk management

I thought thats what you were getting at. the C Drive DOES NOT show up. In fact, it shows D, E & G drives

The D drive is the main and the E drive is a partition off of the main drive. G is the external drive.

thefabe said:

Try setting the cable select to slave. And see if it makes a difference. I knw cabel select allows your bios to choose but if you change the pin selection on the back of the drive and set it to slave then it has to be detected as a slave drive.

Even though windows is actually seeing it in the device manager? I just can't get it to show up in the Computer Management screen.

DocBrown said:

Do you know how do to a screen snip like mine with the snipping tool & attach it with the paper clip icon ?

Let's see if this works.

Sounds good. I'll do that right now and report back.