Hard Drive Won't Show Up In 'My Computer'

[CTrainBEB]

I brought my hard drive with all my media on it back from school for break. First i tried to put it in an external case, but found out that since i formatted it as dynamic it won't work from an enclosure. So i threw it into my machine and now I still can't navigate to it; it shows up under the management options in my computer saying 'foreign' and has a 'yield sign' exclamation on it. The drive worked fine at school, and it is detected in the bios and when I started the computer up it said 'found new hardware, 'ST13120026A' which is corect and everything else normal. Anyone have any ideas?

 

[WobbleWobble]

Did the message really have typos in the product name? If that's the case I would double check your cabling.

 

[CTrainBEB]

nah no typos in the detection, i even took the huge amount of effort and fixed it for you *HUGE*

 

[WobbleWobble]

I wasn't being picky about your spelling. If it was Windows or the BIOS detecting the HDD with its name spelt wrong, the IDE/SATA cable and its connection could be at fault.

 

[CTrainBEB]

right right i should've spelled it correctly the first time anyway. i've checked the cables and everything and swapped it around inside the case to different ide connections and everything else i can think of. I'd like to think that it can't be my hard drive being bad, but I think it might be the problem. Someone please tell me otherwise eh?

 

[NuroMancer]

Low level format the HDD and re-format.

 

[boomerang]

The key here I believe, is that you set it up as a dynamic disk.

This may be the answer.

Edit: Better read carefully. It looks as though the only way to convert it back to a Basic Disk will destroy your data.

 

[CTrainBEB]

yep, boomerang got it right about the same time i found that same page. For some great intelligent reason microsoft only put dynamic disk reading into XP Pro and not XP Home. My computer at school is on pro but this current one is on home. Man i f'in love microsoft, so many great ideas coming out of there.

regardless, thanks for your help everyone at least i won't have to worry about this problem anymore