PC not seeing hd...help!

[DarkCyber]

Ok, I have a Maxtor 160 gig hd that I use as a secondary hd. Tonight I switched my hd's from one pc to another (actually the Maxtor hd was put back into the pc it use to be in). Anyway, after I put the hd back into this pc...the hd isn't working.

Here's the problem...the hd shows up in the bios and detects fine. But when I boot into Windows XP Pro...it's not there..even under Admin Tools. When I boot with Norton Ghost 9.0 , it doesn't show it either. I have also booted with Partition Recovery floppy...it doesn't show it.

I'm looking for suggestion here...could the hd just be dead? But wouldn't it no longer show up in the bios if it were?

TIA!

 

[Ice Czar]

assuming its physically configured properly which given its showing up in the BIOS sounds likely

Start > Run > (type) diskmgmt.msc > action > rescandisks
if you see it, the OS does as well but you likely lack the NTFS permissions to access it

so, you need to
"disable simple file sharing"
and
"take ownership of files and folders"

google each query between the quotes and youll find several step by step instructions

also google "NTFS permissions"

 

[DarkCyber]

assuming its physically configured properly which given its showing up in the BIOS sounds likely

Start > Run > (type) diskmgmt.msc > action > rescandisks
if you see it, the OS does as well but you likely lack the NTFS permissions to access it

so, you need to
"disable simple file sharing"
and
"take ownership of files and folders"

google each query between the quotes and youll find several step by step instructions

also google "NTFS permissions"

Thanks I will try this and see. Would this also explain why it doesn't show up even when booting into a DOS program...like Norton Ghost?