Problems with HDD... I think.

[Syribo]

About a month or two ago, my external HDD began acting strangely. I couldn't access any data on it, and it would slow down my computer to the point where it wasn't even able to be used. The drive was a Seagate 7200.11 500GB HDD inside of an Antec MX1 external enclosure. I tried my other two drives in the MX1 to make sure that it wasn't the problem, and they both worked. I even tried the 'broken' drive internally and it still had the same problems.

So I shipped the drive off to Seagate and just received a new refurbished drive today. I put it in my MX1, hook everything up correctly (I double, triple and quadruple checked the wiring), nothing. When starting up the computer, it didn't even show a third SATA drive.

So I took the HDD out of the enclosure and put it inside the computer and connected it with just a SATA wire. Now I can see the third SATA drive being shown on the BIOS screen and POST screens.. but when I get into Vista, it will not show up in 'My Computer'. Just my other two drives are there.

When I go to Device Manager, it lists 3 SATA drives though... I... don't know what's going on here. Any input?



Edit: I should add that I also tried using different SATA wires, and tried different ports as well.

Ah ha, more of an update. I went to Device Manager, clicked on each of my drives and under Volume I went to Populate. For my first two drives, it brought up the info and stuff.. but when I tried for the third drive, I got a Rundll error..

 

[Dangman]

Umm, did you format that drive yet?

 

[Syribo]

Umm, did you format that drive yet?

Oh my God... no I didn't!

Ugh.. I put in the Vista DVD so I can format the drive that way (I'm drawing a blank.. this is the only way to format the drive, right?) and as soon as it started to load I got a BSOD

Trying again now....... Let's see what happens......

 

[Drakan290]

Oh my God... no I didn't!

Ugh.. I put in the Vista DVD so I can format the drive that way (I'm drawing a blank.. this is the only way to format the drive, right?) and as soon as it started to load I got a BSOD

Trying again now....... Let's see what happens......

Nein.
Boot into windows from your main drive, go to My Computer and you'll see a disk that is 'unreadable' and it will ask you to format. Otherwise, download something like Ultimate boot CD and go from there.

 

[Syribo]

Nein.
Boot into windows from your main drive, go to My Computer and you'll see a disk that is 'unreadable' and it will ask you to format. Otherwise, download something like Ultimate boot CD and go from there.

Oh God I feel so stupid for not realizing I had to format the drive! I don't even deserve to own a computer

Well I just went through the whole Vista installation disc thing and formatted that way... Oops Booting up now to see if the drive is readable.. Then if it is, I can put it back in the external enclosure and hope it still works!

YAY It works! It shows up now in My Computer And I can use it normally! Thanks for the help.. even though I really should have been able to figure that out on my own :X Stupid me!

 

[Drakan290]

Oh God I feel so stupid for not realizing I had to format the drive! I don't even deserve to own a computer

Well I just went through the whole Vista installation disc thing and formatted that way... Oops Booting up now to see if the drive is readable.. Then if it is, I can put it back in the external enclosure and hope it still works!

YAY It works! It shows up now in My Computer And I can use it normally! Thanks for the help.. even though I really should have been able to figure that out on my own :X Stupid me!

We all do stupid stuff.
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