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Where's my hard drive?
I am having difficulties with a Maxtor DiamondMax 17 160GB ATA drive and Windows 7. I have been scouring forums for weeks and this is the one that seems most likely to be helpful. Lets start at the beginning. Old home built desktop (FOXCONN MB / AMD 64 processor 2GB RAM) previously using XP with no problems. Upgraded to Windows 7 with a clean install. Lots of problems - most of them solved except that the Maxtor drive is undetectable. The system is currently working fine with two other IDE drives (IBM master and Maxtor DiamondMax20 slave) so I know the system works. I want to replace the IBM with the larger DiamondMax17 but I cannot get Win7 to see it. I know the disk is OK since my other XP PC and Vista Laptop (with IDE/USB enclosure) can both see it. I have used Ubuntu to partition it, unpartition it, format it, clean it but as soon as I put it in my Windows7 PC it cannot be seen, either as a master or a slave. I should add that the BIOS sees it fine. Disk Management cannot find it. I have also tried the "diskpart/list disk" solution but it is not there. Even in the IDE/USB enclosure the system cannot see it. Any ideas anyone?
Last edited by muttley; 19 Dec 2010 at 10:34.