Drive showing in BIOS but not showing in Windows 1

[gavm99]

Hi,

I have a laptop hard drive I want to view in Windows as a secondary drive. I have one of the converter tools which allows me to install a laptop drive into a PC. I know this is ok as other laptop drives work fine.

Within the BIOS it shows but once in Windows I can't see it in either My Computer or Disk Management.

Any ideas anyone?

Thanks.

Gavin.

 

[Freestone]

Did the drive in question have a program called GoBack installed on it? If so, either it has to be removed from the target drive or installed on the host system.

 

[gavm99]

I don't know if it was installed and I am not bothered about wiping whatever is on the disk if I can get to see it.

I will try installing GoBack on my PC and then seeing what I get.

 

[Freestone]

Since you don't care about what is on the drive, rather than installing GoBack, instead go to the drive manufacturer's site and download their tools for the drive and zero the drive out.

 

[gavm99]

I have further news. I put the HDD into my laptop and it then asked me for the 'unlock' password which I do not have so I suspect this is the problem. I have tried to rebuild the disk using KillDisk which no success.

Does anyone have any ideas?

 

[Adhyapika]

hi

I have a dell dimension4700 desktop with windowsXP Home. Recently it started making a tick tick sound then comes the death of the blue screen. Now I made a clean windows XP home installation and was working fine for two days.

Now the severe part is my computer is not starting.. it stands there in the windows logo..

I checked the system Bios, there I could see my hard drive in Drives section as Drive 0: SATA-0 is Maxtor

Drive 1: SATA-2 controller = Serial ATA
Port - DATA-2

Drive 2: PATA-0 controller = Parallel ATA
Port - PATA-0 (PRI IDE Master)

Drive 3: PATA-1 controller = Parallel ATA
Port PATA-1 (PRI IDE Slave)
Drive details: Drive ID Philips DVD/RW

I have one mor drive DVD is not showing here.

But in Boot sequence

I have Onboard or USB floppy (not present)(I don't have a floppy drive so I use a usb floppy drive)
Onboard SATA Hard Drive showing not present
Onboard IDE Hard Drive showing not present
Onboard or USB CD-ROM Drive (here nothing) so I hope it means present.

Now I bought a New Hard drive to install in this computer. I need to format this harddrive.

Can anyone help me to do this. If I make this New Harddrive as a slave. Can I use it in this computer as a master. I got a enclosure to format this. I tried as a Master but it is not showing. so I changed to slave but I don't know what will happen.. so please help me..

This is my first time for me

thanks in advance.. appreciate your great help..


Drive

 

[wolluf]

Adhyapika - you should start a new thread for your question.

Do I take it your current (failing) hard drive is a Maxtor SATA drive?

What type of drive is the new one? If its IDE, then yes you can make it master on IDE primary controller. If its SATA, then master/slave doesn't happen - just one drive on each connector.

Then you're talking about putting it in an enclosure. Once in an enclosure, then yes you can partition and format it from any XP machine using disk management (run diskmgmt.msc) on the external drive.

But not sure what you're trying to do. Do you want to install XP on the new drive in your machine - and then possibly try to retrieve data from failing drive?

If you want to do that, connect new drive to machine (and disconnect the failing one for the time being). Boot from XP install CD - if the drive is SATA you'll probably need SATA drivers on a floppy (you say you've got a USB floppy) - should be available from Dell) - press F6 when prompted at start of install and then present flopy when prompted. If its IDE just proceed as normal. You'll get the chance to create and format partition later. Once installed (you'll probably need to get other drivers from Dell site too - unless you already have on CD) you can try connecting failing drive to see if you can access it. You'll need to re-activate your XP - may need to phone them, but if so, just answer questions (once they've established hardware failure should be no problem).

 

[Adhyapika]

First of all I am very sorry that I posted my questions here.

Thankyou for your reply. Now I have more questions that i will put in a new thread..

Once again sorry.