FAILURE TO RECOGNIZE HARD DRIVE

[Guest HARRISON50]

MY COMPUTER IS SET UP WITH A 20GB MAXTOR HD AS MY MAIN HD WITH WINDOWS XP PRO

INSTALLED THERE, A 160GB MAXTOR SLAVE INTERNALLY, A 160GB MAXTOR EXTERNAL HD,

AND A 1TB SEAGATE EXTERNAL HD.

 

TONIGHT I DECIDED TO WIPE THE INTERNAL MAXTOR 160GB. IT WAS MY C DRIVE AT

ONE TIME. IT STILL HAD REMNANTS OF XP ON IT. I USED WIPE DRIVE TO WIPE IT. 1

OVERWRITE. WHEN I REBOOTED 2 STRANGE EVENTS OCCURRED.

 

I WAS INFORMED BY POPUP THAT MY COMPUTER HAD UNDERGONE A SIGNIFICANT CHANGE

SINCE WINDOWS WAS ACTIVATED AND THAT I WOULD HAVE TO REACTIVATE IN 3 DAYS.

 

AND THE 160GB INTERNAL HD WAS NOT RECOGNIZED IN "MY COMPUTER"

 

I WENT THROUGH THE TROUBLE SHOOTER 10 TIMES USING ALL POSSIBLE OPTIONS MORE

THAN ONCE. I REBOOTED 4 TIMES. I INSTALLED AN INTEL RAID UTILITY AND ITS

DRIVER. AND I USED DEVICE MANAGER.

 

DEVICE MANAGER RECOGNIZES THE 160GB HD. IT RECOGNIZES ALL 4 DRIVES.

 

WHEN I CLICKED ON PROPERTIES AND DID ALL THE OTHER TASKS THE TROUBLE SHOOTER

INSTRUCTED ME TO DO I WAS TOLD THE DEVICE IS WORKING PROPERLY.

 

I DID NOTICE THAT THE TOTAL SPACE ON THE DRIVE AND THE USABLE SPACE ARE

EXACTLY THE SAME. I HAVE NOTICED IN THE PAST THAT THERE IS ALWAYS 8MB OF

TAKEN SPACE.

 

CAN SOMEONE EMAIL ME AT osec.sugar at gmail.com AND TELL ME HOW TO MAKE THE

COMPUTER RECOGNIZE THIS DRIVE IN "MY COMPUTER"????

 

THANKS.

 

HRH

[Guest Plato]

Re: FAILURE TO RECOGNIZE HARD DRIVE

 

=?Utf-8?B?SEFSUklTT041MA==?= wrote:

>

> TONIGHT I DECIDED TO WIPE THE INTERNAL MAXTOR 160GB. IT WAS MY C DRIVE AT

> ONE TIME. IT STILL HAD REMNANTS OF XP ON IT. I USED WIPE DRIVE TO WIPE IT. 1

 

Zero the drive properly next time, using a DOS app.

 

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http://www.bootdisk.com/

[Guest M.I.5¾]

Re: FAILURE TO RECOGNIZE HARD DRIVE

 

 

"HARRISON50" <HARRISON50@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:FFC7706D-07B6-4B9A-8CB8-E36D5AFC614B@microsoft.com...

 

 

There's no need to shout.

 

> MY COMPUTER IS SET UP WITH A 20GB MAXTOR HD AS MY MAIN HD WITH WINDOWS XP

> PRO

> INSTALLED THERE, A 160GB MAXTOR SLAVE INTERNALLY, A 160GB MAXTOR EXTERNAL

> HD,

> AND A 1TB SEAGATE EXTERNAL HD.

>

> TONIGHT I DECIDED TO WIPE THE INTERNAL MAXTOR 160GB. IT WAS MY C DRIVE AT

> ONE TIME. IT STILL HAD REMNANTS OF XP ON IT. I USED WIPE DRIVE TO WIPE IT.

> 1

> OVERWRITE. WHEN I REBOOTED 2 STRANGE EVENTS OCCURRED.

>

> I WAS INFORMED BY POPUP THAT MY COMPUTER HAD UNDERGONE A SIGNIFICANT

> CHANGE

> SINCE WINDOWS WAS ACTIVATED AND THAT I WOULD HAVE TO REACTIVATE IN 3 DAYS.

>

> AND THE 160GB INTERNAL HD WAS NOT RECOGNIZED IN "MY COMPUTER"

>

> I WENT THROUGH THE TROUBLE SHOOTER 10 TIMES USING ALL POSSIBLE OPTIONS

> MORE

> THAN ONCE. I REBOOTED 4 TIMES. I INSTALLED AN INTEL RAID UTILITY AND ITS

> DRIVER. AND I USED DEVICE MANAGER.

>

> DEVICE MANAGER RECOGNIZES THE 160GB HD. IT RECOGNIZES ALL 4 DRIVES.

>

> WHEN I CLICKED ON PROPERTIES AND DID ALL THE OTHER TASKS THE TROUBLE

> SHOOTER

> INSTRUCTED ME TO DO I WAS TOLD THE DEVICE IS WORKING PROPERLY.

>

> I DID NOTICE THAT THE TOTAL SPACE ON THE DRIVE AND THE USABLE SPACE ARE

> EXACTLY THE SAME. I HAVE NOTICED IN THE PAST THAT THERE IS ALWAYS 8MB OF

> TAKEN SPACE.

>

> CAN SOMEONE EMAIL ME AT osec.sugar at gmail.com AND TELL ME HOW TO MAKE

> THE

> COMPUTER RECOGNIZE THIS DRIVE IN "MY COMPUTER"????

>

> THANKS.

>

> HRH

[Guest ib_redbeard]

RE: FAILURE TO RECOGNIZE HARD DRIVE

 

right click "my computer" then left click Manage. Open up the disk

management tool and see if the hard drive is there. Has it been made a

partition? Has it been formatted? I ssupect not, and that is why you cannot

see it in my computer.

 

"HARRISON50" wrote:

> MY COMPUTER IS SET UP WITH A 20GB MAXTOR HD AS MY MAIN HD WITH WINDOWS XP PRO

> INSTALLED THERE, A 160GB MAXTOR SLAVE INTERNALLY, A 160GB MAXTOR EXTERNAL HD,

> AND A 1TB SEAGATE EXTERNAL HD.

>

> TONIGHT I DECIDED TO WIPE THE INTERNAL MAXTOR 160GB. IT WAS MY C DRIVE AT

> ONE TIME. IT STILL HAD REMNANTS OF XP ON IT. I USED WIPE DRIVE TO WIPE IT. 1

> OVERWRITE. WHEN I REBOOTED 2 STRANGE EVENTS OCCURRED.

>

> I WAS INFORMED BY POPUP THAT MY COMPUTER HAD UNDERGONE A SIGNIFICANT CHANGE

> SINCE WINDOWS WAS ACTIVATED AND THAT I WOULD HAVE TO REACTIVATE IN 3 DAYS.

>

> AND THE 160GB INTERNAL HD WAS NOT RECOGNIZED IN "MY COMPUTER"

>

> I WENT THROUGH THE TROUBLE SHOOTER 10 TIMES USING ALL POSSIBLE OPTIONS MORE

> THAN ONCE. I REBOOTED 4 TIMES. I INSTALLED AN INTEL RAID UTILITY AND ITS

> DRIVER. AND I USED DEVICE MANAGER.

>

> DEVICE MANAGER RECOGNIZES THE 160GB HD. IT RECOGNIZES ALL 4 DRIVES.

>

> WHEN I CLICKED ON PROPERTIES AND DID ALL THE OTHER TASKS THE TROUBLE SHOOTER

> INSTRUCTED ME TO DO I WAS TOLD THE DEVICE IS WORKING PROPERLY.

>

> I DID NOTICE THAT THE TOTAL SPACE ON THE DRIVE AND THE USABLE SPACE ARE

> EXACTLY THE SAME. I HAVE NOTICED IN THE PAST THAT THERE IS ALWAYS 8MB OF

> TAKEN SPACE.

>

> CAN SOMEONE EMAIL ME AT osec.sugar at gmail.com AND TELL ME HOW TO MAKE THE

> COMPUTER RECOGNIZE THIS DRIVE IN "MY COMPUTER"????

>

> THANKS.

>

> HRH