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  1. February 11th, 2012, 01:41 AM #1
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    Hard drive does not show in Computer

    I added a 160 gig ide hd.
    It shows in the bios and shows as health in computer management.
    It does not show up in Computer with the other drives.
    Any ideas?
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    If it was a new drive, did you partition and format it?
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  3. February 11th, 2012, 02:00 AM #3
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    IT is an old drive full of junk i want to format.
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    Quote Originally Posted by anne View Post
    IT is an old drive full of junk i want to format.
    So what's the problem then?
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    Is it the only drive on the IDE cable? Is the jumper for Master/Slave set correctly?
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  7. February 11th, 2012, 03:40 AM #6
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    Quote Originally Posted by Midknyte View Post
    So what's the problem then?
    the problam is exactly as i said. It shows up everywhere except in computer
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  8. February 11th, 2012, 03:41 AM #7
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    Quote Originally Posted by jdc2000 View Post
    Is it the only drive on the IDE cable? Is the jumper for Master/Slave set correctly?
    Everything else is sata. It is the only drive on ide
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    So you can see it in disk management. If you knew to format, why didn't you do it already? Are you having problems formating?

    Did you delete and recreate the partition?
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  11. February 11th, 2012, 05:13 AM #9
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    I can see it in computer management
    I can see it in device management.
    My question was and is "why can't i see it in computer?" ( my computer as it used to be called)
    I have never said i have problams formatin.
    Just read the original question.

    It does not show up in Computer with the other drives.
    Any ideas? "
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    I did read. You didn't answer if you reformatted the drive or not.

    If you can see it in computer management (disk management), then you should be able to remove all the partitions, create a new partition, and format it. If you formatted it and assigned it a drive letter, you should be able to see it in my computer.

    What kind of system did you get this system from? Was there any overlay app like EZbios or Goback on the drive?
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    IOW, it won't show up in "My Computer" until it's partitioned, formatted and assigned a drive letter in "Disk|Computer Management".
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    To show in Windows Explorer/My Computer, it has to have a filesystem that Windows can see, which pretty much restricts it to FAT32, ExFAT or NTFS. Even with those filesystems, creating them with 3rd party software has been known to cause issues with the drive being seen by Windows as well.
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  15. February 14th, 2012, 12:13 AM #13
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    If it shows up in disc management as "Healthy" right click on the drive>>Change drive letters and paths...Assign it an unused drive letter.
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