Hard Drive Visibility

[TeeJay88]

Ok so, i had a hard drive failure a 3 weeks ago, and i finally got it back from seagate, new when i installed it, it was visible from my mobo but not it vista. so i threw in my vista disk and formatted. still doesnt show, so i threw in my win 7 disk and installed teh os. its visible. but when i went to my vista install it still doesnt show up. what gives.

 

[Arainach]

Check Disk Management in Vista and see if it's assigned a drive letter.

 

[TeeJay88]

Still have nothing.No unallocated space, just the 2 drives.

 

[Nenu]

We dont know how many drives you should have so that is little help.
Is the drive present in Disk Manager?
Do all partitions on that drive have drive letters?

 

[TeeJay88]

I have 3 Disk drives.
1 WD-1 terabyte
1 Seagate 500gig(the one i got back from seagate)
1 Seagate 320gig
1 DVD drive
1 Blu Ray
The drive is not present in disk manager,
and all the other drives have letters
and all of the drives show up in win7

 

[Arainach]

How are the hard drives connected (IDE/SATA/Different SATA controllers)? Do you have drivers for all of your hard drive controllers installed in Vista?

 

[TeeJay88]

Sata, and there just plugged into the same group of sata slots on my mobo

 

[Arainach]

Did you use Bitlocker on the Win7 drive?

 

[TeeJay88]

No, i have no use for a bit encryption on my drives, im thinking about fucking throwing vista out altogether since i can get win7professional for 45(download and disk mailed to me)

 

[Nenu]

I suspect you have plugged the drive into a controller that you havent installed the drivers for.
ie an onboard RAID controller.