- Jul 27, 2003
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This issue boggles me to the core and I'm afraid it might stump everyone else.
I have two hard drives (160GB SATA and 300 GB IDE). The 300GB is my media/games drive whereas my 160GB is where I keep the programs and OS.
Last night, after installing Vista onto the 160GB HD, the 300GB became listed as an unpartitioned, unformatted drive. The drive itself is listed on Device Manager, Windows Explorer, and whatnot correctly. Yet, whenever I try to explore or get into the 300 GB HD, Vista just tells me that the drive needs to be formatted.
To say the least, I am confused. I certainly don't want to reformat my 300GB drive since I would be losing a lot of information. For a moment, I thought maybe the drive might be damaged or the file structure was corrupted? However, it's a fairly new drive (7200.10) and I hadn't noticed any problems with the drive in the past, so I doubt that the drive itself is dying.
So far, I have checked the cables and replugged the IDE and power cords. Rebooting and scouring for some obscure Windows update hasn't magically solved the problem either.
Can anyone help me with some suggestions, even if they seem wildly out of the blue? I'm pretty desperate here. = /
--Garfield
I have two hard drives (160GB SATA and 300 GB IDE). The 300GB is my media/games drive whereas my 160GB is where I keep the programs and OS.
Last night, after installing Vista onto the 160GB HD, the 300GB became listed as an unpartitioned, unformatted drive. The drive itself is listed on Device Manager, Windows Explorer, and whatnot correctly. Yet, whenever I try to explore or get into the 300 GB HD, Vista just tells me that the drive needs to be formatted.
To say the least, I am confused. I certainly don't want to reformat my 300GB drive since I would be losing a lot of information. For a moment, I thought maybe the drive might be damaged or the file structure was corrupted? However, it's a fairly new drive (7200.10) and I hadn't noticed any problems with the drive in the past, so I doubt that the drive itself is dying.
So far, I have checked the cables and replugged the IDE and power cords. Rebooting and scouring for some obscure Windows update hasn't magically solved the problem either.
Can anyone help me with some suggestions, even if they seem wildly out of the blue? I'm pretty desperate here. = /
--Garfield