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Diamond69
I can't see my two drives,any ideas?
B
BillW50
What kind of drives? SATA, PATA, optical, flash, or what?
J
John Williamson
Internal or external? HD, floppy or DVD? If external, are they poweredDiamond69 said:
up and have you checked all the leads are (a) okay, and (b) connected at
both ends? Some system details would help.
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Nil
Open the computer case - they're inside it.
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James Silverton
I suppose the question might refer to which drives are displayed by
Computer. All should be there if the drives are powered up and cabled
correctly. For example, I have two hard drives, one internal and one
eternal USB disk and my CD drive is also displayed.
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jbm
Go and stand at the front door and look towards the street!
jim
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Bob I
Go to Control Panel, Folder options, View, and UNcheck the box in front
of "Hide empty drives in the Computer folder"
of "Hide empty drives in the Computer folder"
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Paul
Go to the Start menu, where you type in commandsDiamond69 said:
for programs.
Type in "diskmgmt.msc" without the double quote
marks, and run it.
What does that show ?
Do you see two disks now ?
Or, one disk with two partitions ?
Post a link to a picture of your disk management
display, for further comments. One like this.
The diskmgmt.msc thing, is available in multiple
Windows OS.
http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/Disk_Management_XP.gif
Paul
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Nil
Yeah, and it could also mean that he took his car down to the corner
store and back while blindfolded.
He would be foolish to think that anyone could answer such a vague
question with no explanation or detail.
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Gene E. Bloch
Somehow I thought that Nil knew that, even before I read his reply
My reaction to the OP was like Nil's and others' in this thread, namely
"What - no details?".
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Alex Michael
This my friend's computer, he just brought to me. It is 2 Sata drives
on an HP A6700y running Vista home Premium.I tried all the possible
solutions the other posters posted, they still don't show. I saw
something about the driver corrupted in the regisdtry registry
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Paul
Do you know how to enter the BIOS setup screen ?Alex said:
There should be a section in the setup screen, with the names
of the detected disk drives. See if the two drives are evident
in that screen.
You can also try listening for "spinup noise" from each drive.
If the controller board on the drive, cannot successfully get
critical data off the platter, the drive will "refuse to communicate"
with the motherboard. Even if you hear spinup noise, it's possible
for a drive to fail, because the controller cannot get
the critical data it needs, to operate the disk drive.
The controller board only contains a portion of the bootup code
it needs, and the rest of the critical information is on
the platter, and must be read off at startup of the drive.
Paul
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Nil
Who are you? Are you talking about the same issue that "Diamond69"
was?
What exactly is this "something" about a corrupted driver, and how did
you see it?
Error messages are important. You need to relay them precisely.