my hardrive shows in post, shows in device manager, but does not show any where else. eg My Computer, Disk Defragment it does not show in all these things.
zalakes 0 Junior Poster in Training
jfountain02 0 Newbie Poster
It might need to be re-formatted
Coconut Monkey 40 Inside your PC Team Colleague
zalakes 0 Junior Poster in Training
you cannot access the hard drive from any where including xp setup so formating i\does not work
Coconut Monkey 40 Inside your PC Team Colleague
Zalakes, did you read the guide I posted?
I assume this is a new hard drive you've rigged up, so in order to access it you need to create a partition which you then format. The link above contains detailed instructions on how to do this in Windows XP. ;)
zalakes 0 Junior Poster in Training
its not a new hard drive... What im saying is that you cannot access the drive. it was working fine until a few weeks ago, u can see the drive in device manager but no where else.
Coconut Monkey 40 Inside your PC Team Colleague
I see now, sorry for the mix-up. What kind of drive is it? Model, make and interface type.
Regardless, you should check out the disk management section mentioned in the guide I posted. That should provide some information on what exactly is happening with the hard drive.
zalakes 0 Junior Poster in Training
i used seatools and found lots of errors on the drive so i think i should just throw it away or put it in the freezer. lol
Coconut Monkey 40 Inside your PC Team Colleague
Actual bad sectors or possible partition errors? I'm not sure what Seatools tests for but you could just have a corrupted paritition. If there's nothing worth recovering then perhaps a zerofill utility could give you a working (albeit blank) drive.
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