Hard Drive not recongized by xp

chuck8980 · #1 August 29th, 2007, 10:00 PM

I have a 6gig Quantum bigfoot that I was using as a 2nd HD just for file keeping. It has disapeared from my computer, however it shows up in my bios.
I have done everything I can think of from changing cables to removing and reinstalling it. Anyone have any other ideas?

Thanks,
Chuck

**Miz** · #2 August 29th, 2007, 11:32 PM

Does it show in Control panel>Administrative tools>Computer Management>Disk Management?

chuck8980 · #3 August 30th, 2007, 01:35 AM

No...the only place I see it is in the bios. I have looked at as it was booting and the light would come on as if it was working.

Chuck

Unoscout · #4 August 30th, 2007, 06:20 AM

try it on another PC? try cmding to it with the dir command in command prompt, try booting in safe mode, try changing the mode in bios to all the settings (LBA, normal etc), does it come up as the slave in bios and show the size and head count properly? does it show up in device manager?

paulreed · #5 August 30th, 2007, 12:29 PM

Try connecting the drive to another machine, if you are able to get access of the drive without any problem, then you can simply copy the data to some other device.

If this does not workout, maybe your hard drive has gone bad you need to analyze the same using Data Recovery Software for Windows.

Hope this helps you.