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    mitchsc Posts: 802, Reputation: 7
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    Jun 13, 2011, 10:02 AM
    Drive not recognized
    XP-SP3

    I installed a second internal HDD to merge 2 partitions using Acronis Disk Director. After the merge, it showed a single partition within Disk Director.

    At this point, I probably should have formatted the partition while it was still visible in disk Director, but had to leave, so I shut everything down. (This is the first time I've merged partitions, so I'm not too familiar with the proper steps)

    When I returned to partition the drive, it became completely invisible in Disk Director, My Computer, Disk Management, Device Manager, and Active Kill Disk. I can't find a way to get the drive to appear so I can initialize and partition it.

    Any tricks to make it visible again, or did I ruin the HDD?

    Thanks...
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    Jun 13, 2011, 10:36 AM
    SOLVED.

    I can't explain why, but I connected the HDD using an external USB adapter, and it was recognized by everything. Was able to overwrite the entire drive, initialize it, and format.

    Thanks...
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    Jun 18, 2011, 05:58 PM

    Next time you might look up the DOS command Fdisk.
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