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HDD shows up in BIOS, but not in Windows - update bad sectors!

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dmoney1980

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System:
ASUS z77 mobo
Crucial 64GB SSD
2TB Hitachi drive
DVD ROM
Win 7

I built the above pc for friend about a year ago. Everything worked fine until recently. The 2tb drive no longer shows up in windows. When I go into BIOS I still see it listed under boot options, but it's nowhere to be found in windows. I tried to look under disk manager and under device manager (under disk drives) but no luck. I even tried switching SATA ports on the mobo but got nuthin....

is the drive dead?
 
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Go into Admin Tools and make sure the drive letter is different from any other.

Can you run it externally and hot plug it after the system has booted?
 
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denis280 said:
did it start giving some sign.
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Not sure, he told me it just didnt show up one day

corkyg said:
Go into Admin Tools and make sure the drive letter is different from any other.

Can you run it externally and hot plug it after the system has booted?
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I looked into the admin tools but nothing shows up. I even tried scanning for new harware, no luck! I'll try to put it on an external case tonight when I get home. The weird thing is that I can hear the drive spin up when I hit the power button
 
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Click on Manage as shown above.


That brings you to a screen like this:

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Does the drive show up anywhere in there?

At any rate, you may want to look at hotfix# KB977178
 
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thanks sm265, I'll try that. one thing i forgot to mention earlier - when the HDD is connected to the mobo, it takes about 10 minutes to boot into windows, it hangs at the animated windows logo for a while. it boots fine with just the SSD
 
Hi gang, I got the drive to show up in windows. I did the hot fix mentioned above, upgraded intel drivers and the bios. Problem is the thing crawls and it had bad sectors according to the app I downloaded from the mfgr websites. I'm shipping this back since Its under warranty until 10/13. Thanks for the suggestions everybody!
 
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