Hard drive not recognized in Windows

TheSpiderX said:
Thanks for that. I did see that thread last night. Unfortunately my hard drive is enabled and windows still won't see the bugger.
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Just trying to confirm that all approaches have been tried.

In Disk Management did you go to Action and Rescan Disks?

No yellow triangles or down arrows in Device Manager?
 

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Yup I have tried rescanning the disks. In the device manager the drive shows up fine. Windows sees it, but it won't see it at all in Disk Management.

I just spent the past 30 minutes installing windows onto another drive to see if maybe it was the initial drive that was giving it fits. It's not. I'm having the same exact problem.
 

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That is so strange :confused:

What is that drive formatted in, Fat32, NTFS ?
 

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2.67 gigahertz Intel Core2 Quad Q8400
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Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. EP43-UD3L
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evga Geforce 9600GT
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Okay, so I picked up a sata to ide adapter. With that it doesn't even show up at all. But I'm not sure if I'm doing it right. I've never used SATA before. I enable the SATA setting in BIOS and it checks for devices now, but it's not showing the hd.
 

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windows 72.67 gigahertz Intel Core2 Quad Q84004gb DDR2 1066evga Geforce 9600GT
OS
windows 7
CPU
2.67 gigahertz Intel Core2 Quad Q8400
Motherboard
Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. EP43-UD3L
Memory
4gb DDR2 1066
Graphics Card(s)
evga Geforce 9600GT
Internet Speed
Cable
Okay I am going insane here. I just grabbed my brother in law's IDE enclosure. Plugged the Hard drive into it. Booted windows. I think plugged it in. Windows then recognized it, added the driver. I then go into Disk Management and ITS STILL NOT there.

This is nuts. I'm absolutely stumped.
 

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windows 72.67 gigahertz Intel Core2 Quad Q84004gb DDR2 1066evga Geforce 9600GT
OS
windows 7
CPU
2.67 gigahertz Intel Core2 Quad Q8400
Motherboard
Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. EP43-UD3L
Memory
4gb DDR2 1066
Graphics Card(s)
evga Geforce 9600GT
Internet Speed
Cable
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