Windows 7 second hardrive not recognized

[Juggernaut118]

I am dual booting with Windows 7 RC and Windows XP Pro. In XP my second hard drive is seen but not in Windows 7. I tried looking in Device manager and it is not listed. I tried looking in Disc Manager and it is not listed. I also tried using Disk manager in XP to format the drive and changed the drive letter to Z and still it's not showing up. Any ideas?

 

[TGSoldier]

What kind of hdd is it.

And is it sata/ide?

 

[SquonkSC]

I am dual booting with Windows 7 RC and Windows XP Pro. In XP my second hard drive is seen but not in Windows 7. I tried looking in Device manager and it is not listed. I tried looking in Disc Manager and it is not listed. I also tried using Disk manager in XP to format the drive and changed the drive letter to Z and still it's not showing up. Any ideas?

Did you formatted it to NTFS?

 

[Juggernaut118]

My main drive is a 1 terabyte WD Black my second drive, that is not showing up, is a Hitachi Deskstar 160 gig 7200 rpm serial ata. And it is formatted in NTFS

 

[iseeuu]

What kind of hdd is it.

And is it sata/ide?

Specs: Hard Drives 1 Terabyte WD Black 160 gig hitachi

 

[Juggernaut118]

I don't know what would have changed but after waking my computer from sleep mode windows found new hardware and installed the hard drive. Thanks for the help anyway guys.

 

[iseeuu]

I don't know what would have changed but after waking my computer from sleep mode windows found new hardware and installed the hard drive. Thanks for the help anyway guys.

What is your opinion of the terabyte hard drive? What chance have you of filling it up any time soon?

Robert

 

[Juggernaut118]

I like the drive. The speed increase is noticeable and it's quiet. I have filled 300 gigs of the drive so far. Every hard drive I've bought over the years I thought I would never fill, but programs just keep getting larger and I keep collecting files, next thing I know I'm buying another. So the short answer is yeah I think I will fill it after a couple years.

 

[Juggernaut118]

I rebooted my computer and the hard drive isn't showing up again I don't know what to think now.

 

[SquonkSC]

Could be your system boots so fast, the bios have no time to recognise the drive.
(or the drive reports so slow to Bios)

Go into bios and look for disk wait states or something similar.
Warning! Not memory waitstates, that's completely other matter.

If you are reluctant to enter the bios or unsure, post your mainboards brand and type.
I will look for the manual and tell you what to do.

greetz.

 

[Juggernaut118]

I turned on Hard drive pre-delay but it didn't help. It wouldn't explain why XP is finding the drive anyway. It is weird that it doesn't show up on boot but when waking from sleep mode it finds the drive.

 

[raken]

Had the same problem in an earlier version of Win 7 beta. Found this at some forum and it worked.

To slove the problem open the control panel and click on the Administrative Tools icon after that close the control panel window.In that administrative tools click on computer management,click on yes if it is prompted by UAC,click on disk management in the left panel under Storage. In the right panel, right click on the Vista hard disk partition that is missing it's drive letter, then click on Change Drive Letter and Paths.Click on the Add button.7. Select (dot) Assign the following drive letter, then select a drive letter you want to have assigned to the Vista disk partition and click on OK.8. The Vista Hard Disk Partition will now show up in Windows 7.

 

[Juggernaut118]

I'm a confused. After "change drive letter and paths" I hit add... and it says "Mount in the following empty NTFS folder:" Do I pick it's own letter or the another hard drives letter?

 

[meebers]

My main drive is a 1 terabyte WD Black my second drive, that is not showing up, is a Hitachi Deskstar 160 gig 7200 rpm serial ata. And it is formatted in NTFS

This sounds familar...my Hitachi Deskstar 160 GB puts my Win7 machine in a no boot loop, yet works fine on XP.:huh: I started a thread, no solutions yet