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

[dmoney1980]

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?

 

[denis280]

did it start giving some sign.

 

[corkyg]

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?

 

[dmoney1980]

did it start giving some sign.

Not sure, he told me it just didnt show up one day

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?

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

 

[ElFenix]

Try a different port and cable if it works in the usb box

 

[sm625]

Click on Manage as shown above.


That brings you to a screen like this:

Does the drive show up anywhere in there?

At any rate, you may want to look at hotfix# KB977178

 

[dmoney1980]

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

 

[denis280]

Could be just a bad contact from Sata wire.try with another one.

 

[dmoney1980]

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!