Computer Won't Recognize Secondary 500GB Hard Drive

Angelwork · 12-03-2011, 06:02 PM

I've already reinstalled Windows once because of this issue. This time I reinstalled, I installed all my drivers, restarted my computer, then found that the drive was no longer recognized by the computer as drive D, and instead my blu-ray player has taken D's place. I've had so many problems installing this new drive and reinstalling Windows, and I just want my computer to work Please help. The hard drive that's not working happens to be a WD Scorpio Black 500GB. The one I'm using as my primary drive is a Crucial M4 256GB SSD.

makinu1der2 · 12-03-2011, 06:04 PM

Is the drive listed in Disk Management?

Angelwork · 12-03-2011, 06:08 PM

No. But it is listed in my BIOS and in Intel Rapid Storage Utility. There's nothing wrong with the drive. It's a software issue for sure.

**Networks** · 12-04-2011, 05:23 AM

Try the drive in another computer and let us know if it can be seen there.

**Networks** · 12-20-2011, 04:32 AM

Guys try scanning the drive with r-studio to see if it can read and recover the data. Shakes yours is not the same issue and I seem you started another thread which is the correct thing to do