Hard Drive Repair

[Vertigo Acid]

I just got a used hard drive, don't really know much about it other than it's a Maxtor drive. Anyway, it detects in BIOS just fine, but windows never detects it. Any ideas? I've already tried swaping the logic board from an identical drive that whose berrings were going out, but that didn't solve the problem.

 

[Snugglebear]

Why did you do that? If the drive detects at POST the logic board is fine. You've either got a partitioning or driver issue if it only fails to show in Windows.

 

[Vertigo Acid]

Well, it's been known to fix issues with dead/not showing drives. I can't see how an IDE drive would be having driver issues under Windows XP; If that were the case, it would still detect that a piece of hardware was added, and if no driver was found it would still show up in device manager, which it does not.

 

[awdark]

I know windows sometimes doesnt show anything when the drive uses a weird file system... and I recall I found my drive in a smart utility and in the admin tools disk storage thing..
Other than that, I have no idea.