I have a 40GB Maxtor drive that cannot be seen by Windows Explorer or the Logical Disk Manager, but BIOS and the Device Manager in Windows can see it. As a data only drive, it was working fine yesterday and while my computer was on overnight, but disappeared from my system after a restart this morning. Thus, no physical problem is suspected.
Device manager reports that the device is working fine (what a reliable source, right?), but I found it interesting that my other 3 HDDs can be Disabled from the Device Manager, but the drive in question can NOT. Several restarts of my system have wielded no results.
Does anyone have any info to shed light on this occurance? It seems to me that all hope is not lost as BIOS and part of windows still can see the drive by it's model number, and that some other conflict is likely to blame. Any ideas? A reformat is not out of the question, but would prefer to be avoided, as in most cases. However, I can't reformat too easily since the drive won't appear under the LDM admin tool. Whaddaya think, sirs?
Device manager reports that the device is working fine (what a reliable source, right?), but I found it interesting that my other 3 HDDs can be Disabled from the Device Manager, but the drive in question can NOT. Several restarts of my system have wielded no results.
Does anyone have any info to shed light on this occurance? It seems to me that all hope is not lost as BIOS and part of windows still can see the drive by it's model number, and that some other conflict is likely to blame. Any ideas? A reformat is not out of the question, but would prefer to be avoided, as in most cases. However, I can't reformat too easily since the drive won't appear under the LDM admin tool. Whaddaya think, sirs?
