Hard Drive missing

Jacee said:

Did you check to make sure you didn't accidently loosen the connection when installing the last hard drive?

Yeah even tried different cables both SATA and power still no luck - I am wondering if it isn't just coincidence and I had some kind of drive error. I am currently running some recovery software to see if I can rebuild the index and recover the files.

Thanks for everyone's help.

make sure SATA #3 is enabled in the bios

computersplus said:

make sure SATA #3 is enabled in the bios

SATA #3? You lost me. If you mean the third drive - then they are all showing up in the bios.

just double checking a lot of times in the bios you can turn on or off each SATA port becuase it shows that drive as offline

computersplus said:

just double checking a lot of times in the bios you can turn on or off each SATA port becuase it shows that drive as offline

I have a SATA to USB connector that I also tried and it didn't show. I also then tried it on another computer and still no luck.

That's why I'm running the recover software now.

ok sounding like a damaged drive

computersplus said:

just double checking a lot of times in the bios you can turn on or off each SATA port becuase it shows that drive as offline

Turned out the partition table had gotten erased. I used testdisk and it repaired it in about 30 seconds.

Adrian said:

thesmackdown said:

computersplus said:

just double checking a lot of times in the bios you can turn on or off each SATA port becuase it shows that drive as offline

Turned out the partition table had gotten erased. I used testdisk and it repaired it in about 30 seconds.

I wonder how it erased?
All set then?

Yeah - thanks for all the help in troubleshooting.