Hard Drive Not Displayed Thread last updated on 2006-05-19 22:12:44

Posted by member 302005 on 2006-05-16 09:49:39

Errm this isn't a LiteStep problem but a strange one anyway:

I have two hard drives in my computer - my primary 60GB Windows XP SP2 drive (NTFS) and a FAT backup drive - that is, FAT formatted - not FAT32. For a while it used to show up in My Computer but for some reason it doesn't anymore. So I go into Device Manager and "Scan for Hardware Changes" and it detects it. Woo hoo. But after I reboot, it stops detecting the other drive. My BIOS is okay and has always detected it. This is frustrating me ... especially how the icon of the drive is displayed as a CD-ROM drive even though it says "Local Disk E" - hehe. Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance! :-D

~Nightfire

Posted by member 1949 on 2006-05-16 10:06:06 link

Try and change your cable first...
Make sure master and slave jumpers are set correctly.

Posted by member 302005 on 2006-05-19 17:01:22 link

It's plugged in correctly XD Ehm I'm thinking about putting Linux on the FAT drive anyway since I have nothing better to do with it... hehe. XD :-D

~Nightfire

Posted by member 212670 on 2006-05-19 20:36:33 link

I'd just format it to atleast FAT32.

[hijack]Btw, that Maximize thread that Boreas replied in was actually bumped by someone else. It looks like whoever originally bumped it had their post removed. Ya, I didn't want to create a thread just to say that.[/hijack]

Posted by member 1 on 2006-05-19 22:12:44 link

it really sounds like a driver issue with your FAT driver. I would get a bootable Linux CD, maybe Ubuntu or something and see if it mounts the drive. Then you know for sure it is a windows thing.

[/hijack]Yeah I saw the post bump...wasn't me that hid it though. Whoever hid the comment should have hid the thread for a bit. Oh well.[//hijack]