Hard Drive missing

[thesmackdown]

I currently have three Seagate Barracudas 7200.11 1.5 TB drives in my system for media storage.

I just added a Hitachi Deskstar 2 TB drive.

Once I added the Deskstar one of my Seagate drives disappeared from Windows.

I have a WD 500 gig setup as my bootdrive
I have a Seagate 1.5 setup as my D: drive (this is the one that's showing failed in disk management)
I have the other two Seagates and the Hitachi drive setup as E: and as a spanned dynamic drive.

I have run SeaTools on the three Seagate drives and they all test as fine. They are all showing up in the BIOS too.

Any ideas?

 

[theog]

Can post a screenshot of Disk Management.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/9733-how-post-screenshot-seven-forums.html

 

[Adrian]

I currently have three Seagate Barracudas 7200.11 1.5 TB drives in my system for media storage.

I just added a Hitachi Deskstar 2 TB drive.

Once I added the Deskstar one of my Seagate drives disappeared from Windows.

I have a WD 500 gig setup as my bootdrive
I have a Seagate 1.5 setup as my D: drive (this is the one that's showing failed in disk management)
I have the other two Seagates and the Hitachi drive setup as E: and as a spanned dynamic drive.

I have run SeaTools on the three Seagate drives and they all test as fine. They are all showing up in the BIOS too.

Any ideas?

Go to the following:

• My computer
• Right click management
• In the new window go halfway down and you will see Drives
• Double click on drives and on the lower part of the screen you will see the drives listed (see attached image)

 

[thesmackdown]

Can post a screenshot of Disk Management.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/9733-how-post-screenshot-seven-forums.html

Here you go.

 

[Adrian]

Can post a screenshot of Disk Management.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/9733-how-post-screenshot-seven-forums.html

Here you go.

The missing drive has not been allocated nor has it been assigned a letter, are you able to perform these functions?

 

[thesmackdown]

Can post a screenshot of Disk Management.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/9733-how-post-screenshot-seven-forums.html

Here you go.

The missing drive has not been allocated nor has it been assigned a letter, are you able to perform these functions?

Only options I get are: Reactivate Volume or Delete Volume

 

[cris1982]

or use diskpart command:
start - Run: cmd
diskpart
list disk
Post the result screen

 

[thesmackdown]

or use diskpart command:
start - Run: cmd
diskpart
list disk
Post the result screen

Screenshot

 

[Adrian]

Here you go.

The missing drive has not been allocated nor has it been assigned a letter, are you able to perform these functions?

Only options I get are: Reactivate Volume or Delete Volume

Reactivate volume.

 

[thesmackdown]

The missing drive has not been allocated nor has it been assigned a letter, are you able to perform these functions?

Only options I get are: Reactivate Volume or Delete Volume

Reactivate volume.

Tried that and nothing happened.

 

[Jacee]

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

 

[thesmackdown]

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.

 

[computersplus]

SATA

make sure SATA #3 is enabled in the bios

 

[thesmackdown]

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.

 

[computersplus]

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

 

[thesmackdown]

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.

 

[computersplus]

Drive

ok sounding like a damaged drive

 

[thesmackdown]

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]

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?

 

[thesmackdown]

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.