Hi I recently unpluged 1 of the IDE cables that was attached to one of my hard drives as I needed to attach my friend hard drive to transfer data from him.
I have to do this as I all ready have 3 hard drives installed on my PC + a dvd writer

Any way I have just re-attached my hard drive and it isn't showing up in "my computer".

I have gone to device manager and the hard drive is showing up under "disk drives".

Any ideas on what I need to do >>?

You can try going into the BIOS and setting all your drives to Auto so that it will detect the drives upon bootup. I'm assuming that you are replacing the drive on the same IDE connector it came from and that you haven't changed any jumper settings on the drive.

Hi I recently unpluged 1 of the IDE cables that was attached to one of my hard drives as I needed to attach my friend hard drive to translate data from him.
I have to do this as I all ready have 3 hard drives installed on my PC + a dvd writer

Any way I have just re-attached my hard drive and it isn't showing up in "my computer".

I have gone to device manager and the hard drive is showing up under "disk drives".

Any ideas on what I need to do >>?

Why did you just repost the same question? Did you read Need's answer and try what he suggested? Did you try reattaching the data and power cables?

I did not repost my thread.. I don't know how that's happened. And yeah I tried what he said. It still give me the same things.
I actually tried many things before but none of them worked.
I tried to connect the missing hard drive to my brother computer, the same thing nothing appear on my computer.
I tried to change the jumber around by changing the drive to slave and master. Nothing works.
I even unplogged all the drives except the system hard drive and this one.
When I went to the disk management it tell me that my hard drive is not initialized and the whole drive is unallocated.

Sorry, but it did appear you reposted.

Did you ground yourself when you were switching drives? Its possible you burned it out. If it won't work in any drive, that's the most likely scenario. You can try ontrack.com which has tools that may be able to recover, but such tools are expensive.

Hope you had a backup.

XP Home SP2
Hi there,
My computer crashed yesterday and I had to reinstall Windows XP Home. Everything is fine now except my second and third hard drive are not showing in "My Computer"

I can see them on the bios and also in "disk management" I now that if I format the hard drives, I will be able to access them on windows, but the problem is that I do not want to loose all the data I got on them.

Is there a way without formatting to access the hard drives?

Thank you

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XP Home SP2
Hi there,
My computer crashed yesterday and I had to reinstall Windows XP Home. Everything is fine now except my second and third hard drive are not showing in "My Computer"

I can see them on the bios and also in "disk management" I now that if I format the hard drives, I will be able to access them on windows, but the problem is that I do not want to loose all the data I got on them.

Is there a way without formatting to access the hard drives?

Thank you

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If you can see them in 'disc management' make sure that they have drive letters assigned.

Just right click on them and chose change drive letter.

You say your PC crashed, but you don't explain that crash. We need more details about it. Also are the second and third drive physical drives or are they partitions on the same drive?

Hi,
No letters are asigned to the hard drives, when I right click on them the only option is to format or properties, not other options available.

The second and third hard drives are physical drives and the crash was due to overclocking, but I don't think that it has to do anything with the hard drives not showing in "my pc"

Thank you both for your replies and awiting for more solutions.

Please reread my post, it should help.

Overclocking is messing with your motherboard. Its very possible that it could have damaged your drive controller.

I've reinstalled xp home, updated to sp2 and updated chipest and mobo drivers, uninstalling the hard drives from "device manager" and reinstalling them, but still they are not showing on "my computer" despite the fact that I can see them on "device manager" and "disk management"

So... any more advice or utilities out there?
Thanks.

OK have a look at the attached picture.
It shows the Computer management screen with the drives.

In the bottom right pane it shows your drives.
RIGHT click on an unlabeled one and you should get the menu.

You can change the drive letter here, also make sure that in properties the device is enabled.

Hope this helps

I will try this as soon as I get my new hard drive and re-re-re-install Windows XP Home.
I'm thinking to buy a Samsung SpinPoint 200GB SATA-II 8MB for the master hard drive, what do you think? And I guess that SATA-II is compatible with SATA-I cables and my mobo Asus P4C800-E Deluxe.

Once again thank you.