Help, Windows Does Not See My HDD

[HNNstyle]

I just did a new build and ported over my storage drives but windows can not see my Samsung 500 gig HDD. It can see my other two HDD just fine but not the Samsung. Any ideas? I've checked to see if it has power on it by touching and i've switched out the cables from the working HDD but it's a no go there.


Edit: Bios is picking up my the Samsung 500gig HDD.

 

[postmortemIA]

is it formatted? does disk management tool see it?

 

[HNNstyle]

How do i open Disk Management on Windows 7? I've been trying to find it but i don't see anything called Disk Management. Also, there are some files in the drive so I don't want to format the drive and lose all the stuff. I'm assuming that's what formatting will do to it.

 

[postmortemIA]

type diskmgmt.msc - in search or Run box on start menu
It will tell you whether windows think drive is not-formatted, or something else.

 

[HNNstyle]

type diskmgmt.msc - in search or Run box on start menu
It will tell you whether windows think drive is not-formatted, or something else.

It's saying Disk 2 is Foreign with a huge exclamation mark. Any ideas?


Edit: It alsy says Dynamic and there's an option to convert it to Basic. Does anyone know of a way to convert to basic without losing data?

 

[jolancer]

what did you pull that thing out of? a windows comp? Linux? Mac? other?

EDIT: also did you install your chipset drivers for your motherboard yet?

 

[HNNstyle]

what did you pull that thing out of? a windows comp? Linux? Mac? other?

EDIT: also did you install your chipset drivers for your motherboard yet?

Windows 7 PC, same as my other hard drives so I don't know why it's saying that it's dynamic.

Edit I installed INF drivers. I also installed USB 3.0 Intel drivers but they installed wromg. I'll see if there are updated drivers

 

[postmortemIA]

Conversion to basic will lose all data. so will formatting (obviously).
You had to make some partition or whole disk as dynamic at some point on the old PC. It is not a good idea unless you know what you are doing. Then it is pain to make HD work on a different computer.
Read this article for more information:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/222189
I don't think chipset drivers are your problem.

 

[jolancer]

I dont remember what dynamic or basic format is refering to but Im pritty sure it doesnt matter right now. Also i dont think it usually matter if theres any drivers installed windows will still usually detect a formatted drive, unless theres more then one Sata interface controller built into the board(not including IDE if boards still have them) I was asking outa curiosity

I'd try either... temporarily swapping the sata port its connected to - to one of the ports that worked for one of the other drives. and/or putting it back into the computer you got itout of or another known good computer just to make sure its not the HDD itself at fault.

EDIT: Ignore this postmortemIA post wasnt up when i did. He solved it

 

[HNNstyle]

Thanks for the help guys. I'm going to try this and hope it works.

 

[jolancer]

I wouldnt, unless your data's backedup or you dont need it. why not just use the Import dynamic disk function postmortemIA' linked to under the section refering to Moving Dynamic disks.

 

[HNNstyle]

I wouldnt, unless your data's backedup or you dont need it. why not just use the Import dynamic disk function postmortemIA' linked to under the section refering to Moving Dynamic disks.

I didn't see that. I'm getting tired though. Will look at it in the morning. Thanks for the help.

 

[HNNstyle]

IT WORKED. All i did was click import foreign disk and it's there. If there was a rep system here, i'd rep you guys. Thanks Jolancer and postmortemIA.