Can not access 1 of my disc drives

pjhormell

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I did a clean install of Win7. I formated the disc and then installed win7 fron the DVD. I have 3 disc drives, 2 SATA and 1 ATA drive. I can see all drives in Device manager and there are no errors. If I run windows explorer the 2 SATA drives show but the ATA drive does not. Also My Computer only showes the 2 SATA drives. I have tried un-installing the ATA drive and re-booting but the drive showes up in Device manager but not windows explorer. The ATA drive is a Seagate ST3160815A. I checked the Seagate site for firmware updates but there are none. Any ideas?
 

My Computer My Computer

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win7 32 bitAMD 87504 gigEvga 9600GT
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Home built
OS
win7 32 bit
CPU
AMD 8750
Motherboard
Asus M3N78 Pro
Memory
4 gig
Graphics Card(s)
Evga 9600GT
Sound Card
NA On motherboard
Monitor(s) Displays
Samsung 932BW
Hard Drives
Seagate St3160815A 150 GB ATA
Western Digital WDC2500JS-40 250GB SATA
Seagate ST3500410AS 500 GB SATA
Open disk management and right click on the drive. Assign it a drive letter.

Better to refer to the drive as IDE as opposed to ATA.
 

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Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
self built
OS
7600.20510 x86
CPU
P4 550 3.4 GHz HT running at 3.5 GHz
Motherboard
MSI PM8M3-V (MS-7211 v1.x) Micro-ATX mainboard
Memory
OCZ 2 GB(2x1GB) DDR400mHz running @ 414 mHz
Graphics Card(s)
HIS Radeon HD 3850 IceQ 3 Turbo HDMI Dual DL-DVI AGP
Sound Card
MOTU Traveler firewire studio interface 192 kHz 24 bit
Monitor(s) Displays
22" widescreen Acer X223W LCD, 17" Compaq P75 CRT
Screen Resolution
1680x1050 and 1280x1024
Hard Drives
SATA I x2 WD, 400 GB and 120 GB, SATA 2 WD Caviar Black 1 TB
PSU
350W generic
Case
Cybertronpc, it glows blue
Cooling
stock cpu fan, Ice-Q 3 gpu and system, many case fans
Keyboard
Logitch Classical Keyboard 200
Mouse
Logitech Mediaplay cordless
Internet Speed
1792/448 kbits/sec
Other Info
SATA II PCI fake RAID adapter, 1 GB Readyboost, original ATI Remote Wonder (even works with WMC perfectly), Logitech Rumblepad 2 game controller x2
Missing disc fixed

Thanks for your help. Problem solved
Jon
 

My Computer My Computer

At a glance

win7 32 bitAMD 87504 gigEvga 9600GT
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Home built
OS
win7 32 bit
CPU
AMD 8750
Motherboard
Asus M3N78 Pro
Memory
4 gig
Graphics Card(s)
Evga 9600GT
Sound Card
NA On motherboard
Monitor(s) Displays
Samsung 932BW
Hard Drives
Seagate St3160815A 150 GB ATA
Western Digital WDC2500JS-40 250GB SATA
Seagate ST3500410AS 500 GB SATA
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