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Reinstalled Windows and my ATA Drive is Not There

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nasttcar

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I had to reinstall windows and primary IDE drive, 40 gb, is recognized. My secondary drive is a Western Digital 200gb drive and is connected to an ATA board. It used to be my E:\ drive on the computer but is no longer there.

However, during the boot up process the drive is shown, and in device manager the drive is shown as WDC WD20 00JB-34EVA0 SCSI Disk Drive. It is not a SCSI drive.

How do I make this drive visable and useable again.

As always, help is greatly appreciated.

John
 
Is the drive attached to the motherboard's IDE channel, or an add-in ATA controller card?

If it's an add-in card, make sure you have installed the drivers for the card in Windows.
 
Attached with WD's ATA controller card.

I have the driver disk, but the file for Winxp has 3 files, but none appear to be a driver file. When I go to this specific hard drive in control panel/sytems/devicemanager/diskdrives/wdcwd2000jb-34eva0 and double click and then select driver, I ask it to update driver and direct it to the winxp driver folder given to me by Western Digital, Hardware update manager says it cannot find a newer version than what is in windows.

Would deleting this drive in device manager and then rebooting help get it recognized?
 
You might also want to try clicking on My Computer and selecting Manage, then click on Disk Manager on the left pane. See if the drive is detected and just doesn't have a drive letter assigned.
 
Yep, I did that earlier. It has Disk 0 has my c:\ 40gb hard drive that I boot from. It shows Disk 1 as dynamic and notes unreadable. There has never been a problem with this drive and it basically stores data such as Excel, Word, MP3', mpegs, pictures, etc.

Any other ideas.

John
 
Is there a particular reason why it is connected to an add-in controller card?

Try connecting it as a slave to your primary HDD and see if it is recognized.

If that does not work, I suggest hooking the HDD in question up to another PC to verify that the drive itself is still good.
 
What version of Windows? If it is XP, you probably need SP1 to see the drive properly...if it's 2000, SP3.
 
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