| 2 hawkeye31, on Jan 3, 2009 11:21:20 pm GMTI am having the same problem with my Windows VISTA. I found this instructional video on You Tube, and will give it a try. Thought you might want to do the same. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JyOPfBgGXs . Good luck... | 3 symbiot, on Jan 15, 2009 11:50:55 pm GMTI had the same problem after installing vista on a new Harddrive and reconecting a second (previous connected) SATA drive.
i found that in my case another solution was needed (with thnx to the youtube movie)
goto:
control panel -> Administrative Tools - > Computer Management
in there choose ' storage' => 'disk management'
there i found my second disk as 'Foreign Disk' , just rightmouse click this and choose 'Import Foreign Disk' (confirm)
and presto! the harddisk is back!
i hope this will help someone!
Symbiot | 4 Ian, on Jan 16, 2009 6:27:30 am GMTYup, this was the problem.
You're new disk drive is running in RAW format and needs to be formatted into something Windows can use. I use NTFS.
I started the formatting process and after a day or so I was able to use the new Disk Drive *1TB takes a while to format :*(
Thanks for the help! |
| 6 Eric, on Feb 2, 2009 2:35:50 pm GMTVery many thanks - just the help I needed. Now have 2 SATA and a PATA with an adapter running under XP. |
| 7 themadtaper, on Feb 7, 2009 6:27:36 am GMTTHANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!
I had tried every trick I knew in an effort to get Windows 7 (beta) to work with my 2nd SATA drive (installed in an Acer 5640 desktop). I even tried installing Vista (yuk! -- and it still had the drive recognition issue) and XP (couldn't get past the Blue Screen of Death during install).
I was just about to give up when I found your post about "import" of a "foreign" disk.
By the way, Computer Management now lists the drive as "dynamic" instead of "foreign" (or the usual "basic"). But it WORKS FINE!. |
| 10 serioja, on Mar 19, 2009 9:45:35 pm GMTHi , i`m having the same prob at the moment and went through every single advice listed above but it`s very odd in my particular case , so here it is : had this WD 1 TB external hdd for 5 months and didn`t have any probs with it , but know vista wont`t recognise it and i can`t browse it - altough it is listed in the storage section of the computer manangement (disk management). things is that i cannot acces it , nor give it a letter or initialize it , and i am at the end of my strenght. if anyone can help me with some advice ,that would be a life saver.have a lot of important files on this hdd.thank you. | 25 BigDaddyNW5, on Jul 23, 2009 3:43:08 am BSTHello I am having the same problem you are. did you ever find a solution? |
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| 11 colgate, on Mar 20, 2009 5:14:46 pm GMTHave spent hours trying to get a
n external hard drive recognised by my pc,
found your solution of 15th January and in minuets
it's up and running.
many thanks from a 78 years young. |
| 12 Kiro, on Mar 24, 2009 3:52:59 pm GMTMine was "uninitialised", but I initialised it, set a drive number and set it formatting - thanks for the advice, got me to my solution <3 |
| 14 Colin-JB, on Apr 16, 2009 2:33:46 pm BSTThankyou Symbiot, Your solution also works with XP!
Colin-JB |
| 15 nina, on Apr 23, 2009 9:04:37 am BSTThanks! it did work for me :o) |
| 17 Ian Y, on Apr 27, 2009 10:00:13 pm BSTYou were a huge help! Thanks! |
| 27 Noname, on Aug 9, 2009 10:50:48 am BSTThank yoy very much, I have a WD 500GB Drive, which my computer would recognise, I tried your solution & it woulds fine,
THank you. |
| 29 HotrunVideo, on Sep 28, 2009 4:14:04 pm BSTCheers Symbiot, found my 1TB SATA drive thanks to your tip - many thanks. |
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