No hard drives in DM

kcbc · 09-23-2009, 08:59 PM

My system is a socket 939 AMD, 2.2 gigs, and 2 gigs of ram, with an ECS RX-480A motherboard and an Nvidia 6500 video card. I recently reformated and reinstalled my system, today I went into disk management to check one of my slave drives and none of my three hard drives appears. The only two items listed are my two optical drives. They are listed on the startup screen and appear in the bios. This is a new one to me. Does anyone have any suggestions. Thanks.

Dogg · 09-25-2009, 03:53 PM

Are you using Norton's? Several posts I've found indicate that Norton has a bug (what's new).

kcbc · 09-26-2009, 05:17 AM

Thanks for your reply Dogg, not using Norton, using McAfee 2007, system is running fine, computer boots normally, hard drives appear in my computer and device manager. What else do you think might be.

dai · 09-26-2009, 06:12 AM

check if you can see them listed in the bios

are they ide or sata

kcbc · 09-28-2009, 01:33 PM

Dai--thanks for your reply, my hard drives are all listed in the bios, and all three of them are ide drives.

dai · 09-28-2009, 08:29 PM

uninstall them from the device manager then scan for hardware changes

then check if they appear in disk management

09-23-2009, 08:59 PM	#1 (permalink)
kcbc Registered User Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 8 OS: xp pro service pack 2	No hard drives in DM My system is a socket 939 AMD, 2.2 gigs, and 2 gigs of ram, with an ECS RX-480A motherboard and an Nvidia 6500 video card. I recently reformated and reinstalled my system, today I went into disk management to check one of my slave drives and none of my three hard drives appears. The only two items listed are my two optical drives. They are listed on the startup screen and appear in the bios. This is a new one to me. Does anyone have any suggestions. Thanks.

09-25-2009, 03:53 PM	#2 (permalink)
Dogg Tech Hardware Team Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: St Louis, MO Posts: 2,084 OS: XP sp3	Re: No hard drives in DM Are you using Norton's? Several posts I've found indicate that Norton has a bug (what's new). __________________ Google is your friend !

09-26-2009, 05:17 AM	#3 (permalink)
kcbc Registered User Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 8 OS: xp pro service pack 2	Re: No hard drives in DM Thanks for your reply Dogg, not using Norton, using McAfee 2007, system is running fine, computer boots normally, hard drives appear in my computer and device manager. What else do you think might be.

09-26-2009, 06:12 AM	#4 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 56,746 OS: win 7 32x 64x rtm	Re: No hard drives in DM check if you can see them listed in the bios are they ide or sata __________________

09-28-2009, 01:33 PM	#5 (permalink)
kcbc Registered User Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 8 OS: xp pro service pack 2	Re: No hard drives in DM Dai--thanks for your reply, my hard drives are all listed in the bios, and all three of them are ide drives.

09-28-2009, 08:29 PM	#6 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 56,746 OS: win 7 32x 64x rtm	Re: No hard drives in DM uninstall them from the device manager then scan for hardware changes then check if they appear in disk management __________________