SATA HD not located by windows?

[MLSoccer06]

I recently purchases a maxtor 300gb HD with the 16meg buffer. I plugged it right in to my last SATA connector and upon load the drive was there, formatted it, and it worked perfectly.

Then after a reboot, the drive disapeared from windows. Not in device manager, not in disk management window, nowhere. However, on boot it appears in the bios, correctly identified by size and model number.

What is causing this disconnect?

I am using Windows XP Pro SP2--also in the bios the sata as ide setting is on so i dont believe its a driver issue.

Thanks.

 

[elpres05]

Format it again.

 

[MLSoccer06]

Originally posted by: elpres05
Format it again.

Well you see, I cant even format it again, it doesnt even show up in disk management. Its like once windows loads the HD doesnt exist.

And god i just finished moving my mp3 and video collection over.

 

[MLSoccer06]

bump--im sure you guys can help--what can cause a SATA hard drive with ide simulation active in bios to show up in bios but not in windows? And how can it be fixed?

 

[RebateMonger]

First, have you tried asking Disk Management to "Rescan Disks". Sometimes this makes disks magically re-appear. You may need to reboot your PC after doing the "Rescan Disks".

 

[xtknight]

Are you using the NVIDIA IDE driver maybe?

 

[MLSoccer06]

Sadly I have tried to 'rescan disks' and nothing happened as a result of that.

I also am not using an nvidia IDE driver. The motherboard is an 875 chipset board by chaintech. What completely baffles me is how it works on initial boot after installation then just disapears next reboot.

 

[Green Man]

You should download the maxblat utilities and check the hard drive. I've only ever seen bad hard drives do that.

 

[BirdDad]

I have this same drive that I am desperatly trying to get to work