For some reason my secondary harddrive stopped showing up as a listed harddrive "D:\" in my computer and whenever I try to access it.

I thought it may have broken but it still shows up in Device Manager as working "correctly" and it shows up when i enter the BIOS menus on computer start up. I can not figure out what the issue is.

9/17/2007 5:51:20 PM

right click my computer | manage | disk management | find the partition on the hard drive | right click | assign drive letter | profit

9/17/2007 8:22:17 PM

that did not work.

It turns out the whole drive somehow became unpartitioned. I had to repartition it and reformat the drive. All that was on the drive was backups of my main drive stuff. although i did store my movies solely on this drive since they took up so much memory.

9/19/2007 10:54:38 AM

i repartitioned the drive like 3 days ago and not it is fucking up again; the computer detects it but lists the HD as an unpartitioned drive

9/23/2007 2:05:04 PM

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"and not it is "

now?

the hd has failed. the controller? run a smart test on it.

9/23/2007 2:52:35 PM

how?

9/23/2007 6:39:54 PM

maybe there's an option to boot to utilities as the bios screen appears? I know dell has SMART testing - as well as more thorough tests.


otherwise you could goto the website of the hard drive manufacturer and download their official utilities. I know seagate and WD have their own bootable utils

9/23/2007 10:10:06 PM