Windows 7 RC - Can't Find Hard drive

[SpiderX]

Hi there,


I just reinstalled Windows 7 after upgrading my mobo, ram and cpu. As it stands my internal Maxtor 300gb hard drive, is showing up in the Bios. In fact it shows up in the Device Manager in windows. But when I go to the Computer Management to try and assign a drive letter to it, it's not there.

I just put it into an external ide enclosure and windows picked it up no problem. It installed the drivers and everything. BUT I still can't see the drive. It's not in Windows Explorer or the Computer Management.

There are no errors on the drive itself in the device manager. Windows see's it fine there.

But does anyone know why I can't get windows to see it? Even though Bios and the Device Manager see it.

Thanks

 

[Krynj]

What board do you have? Try formatting the drive? Though it seems a little unlikely, maybe a RAID driver issue? Is it an IDE or SATA drive?

 

[SpiderX]

Its a Gigabyte ep43-ud3l

The drive has a bunch of my music, videos and pictures on it that I'd like to try and get off the drive first.

It's an IDE drive. No Raid setup.