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Title: lost hard drive
Post by: cookiebun on January 15, 2011, 12:40:07 pm

Hi another problem I just formatted my hard drive and installed everything, but when i pluged in my spare hard drive it installs the drivers and says all is working ok but when i look for it in my computer where it used to show up there is no sign of it. It is a Hitachi Deskstar. 

NZXT Lexa S
Gigabyte 890GPA-UD3H (rev 2.0) motherboard
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition, Deneb Core, S AM3, 3.4GHz
8gb Crucial Ballistic DDR3 1333mhz/PC3-10600 (7-7-7-24) 1.65v
XFX HD 6970 ATI - AMD Radeon Graphics Card - 2GB
Western Digital WD6402AAEX 640GB Hard Drive SATA111 7200rpm 64MB Cache-OEM Caviar Black.
Seagate Baracuda 500gb SATA11, 32mb Cache
Corsair 750 PSU
Zalman 9500
Liteon DVD Writer
24” Samsung SM2433BW Black Widescreen LCD, 1920x1200
5.1 Creative Surround Speakers
Logitech G11 Gaming Keyboard
Logitech MX516 Gaming Mouse
Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
Epson DX8400 All in one.

Title: Re: lost hard drive
Post by: absic on January 15, 2011, 01:10:46 pm

Hi Cookiebun,

If you open the Control Panel and click on the System and Security heading then look for the heading Administrative Tools then click on Create and Format Hard Disk Partitions see image
(http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/4066/controly.png) (http://img21.imageshack.us/i/controly.png/) 
it will open the Disk Manager feature.

In Disk Manager you should find your hard drive. 
(http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/282/control2.png) (http://img841.imageshack.us/i/control2.png/)

You might need to Mark Partition as Active or Format the drive before the OS can see it.

Title: Re: lost hard drive
Post by: cookiebun on January 15, 2011, 01:27:22 pm

When I right click I get convert to dynamic disc, convert to GPT disc or New simple volume

Title: Re: lost hard drive
Post by: absic on January 15, 2011, 01:31:27 pm

Hi

You need New Simple Volume but, if you have any files on the drive they will be lost as the drive will be reformatted.

Title: Re: lost hard drive
Post by: cookiebun on January 15, 2011, 01:33:49 pm

Hi absic, thanks I have got it now these little things are sent to try us.
                                                       regards

Title: Re: lost hard drive
Post by: absic on January 15, 2011, 01:35:30 pm

No problem, that's we we use the forum. So we can share our experience and help others along the way and it is usually the little things that cause the biggest headaches!