[SOLVED] HDs show up in device manager, but not in "My Computer"

psykopyro · 06-20-2005, 09:52 PM

First of all i'd like to welcome myself to these forums.

Ok here's my problem-

I am using two Western Digital WD400 40GB Pata drives. They are identical.

FIrst i connected both the drives to my SATA controller using two pata to sata adapters (all hardware, i know they work.) I then booted up into XP and went into my computer. My computer recognized them and everything was jolly, except that i wanted to make a Raid 0 array out of 'em. So i rebooted, changed my motherboard's sata function to "raid" instead of "base" and set up a raid 0 array in the bios's config utility. Then i booted up XP and installed my SATA drivers, which all worked fine. Rebooted and...

Can't see my drives in My computer!

So i thought ah whatever, screw the raid, and when into the Bios utility, changed all the settings back to normal and deleted the Raid in the bios.

NOW when i go to My Computer, i cant see the drives but the Device Manager can. I even plugged one drive into an external usb enclosure, Device manager can see it but My Computer can't.

What is going on?

Thanks!

Aeuzent · 06-21-2005, 02:13 AM

You have to format the drives

Windows wont mount them till they have a recognizable file system. If your using XP I suggest NTFS

crazijoe · 06-21-2005, 05:38 AM

Check in Disk Management.

psykopyro · 06-21-2005, 08:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aeuzent

You have to format the drives

Windows wont mount them till they have a recognizable file system. If your using XP I suggest NTFS

how do I format the drives if I can't access them?

psykopyro · 06-21-2005, 08:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by crazijoe

Check in Disk Management.

WHAO dude thanks! this forum rocks!

06-20-2005, 09:52 PM	#1 (permalink)
psykopyro Registered User Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 14 OS: XP	[SOLVED] HDs show up in device manager, but not in "My Computer" First of all i'd like to welcome myself to these forums. Ok here's my problem- I am using two Western Digital WD400 40GB Pata drives. They are identical. FIrst i connected both the drives to my SATA controller using two pata to sata adapters (all hardware, i know they work.) I then booted up into XP and went into my computer. My computer recognized them and everything was jolly, except that i wanted to make a Raid 0 array out of 'em. So i rebooted, changed my motherboard's sata function to "raid" instead of "base" and set up a raid 0 array in the bios's config utility. Then i booted up XP and installed my SATA drivers, which all worked fine. Rebooted and... Can't see my drives in My computer! So i thought ah whatever, screw the raid, and when into the Bios utility, changed all the settings back to normal and deleted the Raid in the bios. NOW when i go to My Computer, i cant see the drives but the Device Manager can. I even plugged one drive into an external usb enclosure, Device manager can see it but My Computer can't. What is going on? Thanks!

06-21-2005, 05:38 AM	#3 (permalink)
crazijoe Registered User Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Omaha, The Center of the Universe Posts: 7,632 OS: WinXP, Win2K3 My System	Check in Disk Management. __________________ Microsoft MCSA + Messaging, MVP, A+, Network+ http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b3...other/Help.jpg Do you want a real Republican? HDD diagnostic tools / HDD data recovery software

06-21-2005, 02:13 AM	#2 (permalink)
Aeuzent Registered User Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Severn, MD Posts: 370 OS: XP SP2	You have to format the drives Windows wont mount them till they have a recognizable file system. If your using XP I suggest NTFS