Missing hard disk

> Mr Fribbit,
>
> Try viewing the Vista partition in Disk Management. Right click Computer
> (formerly My Computer) and select Manage > Disk Management. All your drives
> and assigned drive letters should show up there.
>
> In Disk Management, you have various options for managing your drives. For
> example, you can change drive letters. Just look around at the various
> options and Actions available to see whether one of them can provide the
> resolution you need. There is also a Help file available, as I recall.
>
> Let us know what happens,
>
> Freddy
> --
> freddy
>
>
> "Mr Fribbit" wrote:
>

> > Imagine the scene: I've just got home from a hard day at work, and my wife
> > says "I went to have a look at the babies photos, but couldn't find them -
> > Where have you put them?", I reply with a rather sarcastic "They're on the
> > disk labelled 'Photos'...", to which I got a "But that doesn't exist
> > anymore..."
> >
> > Panic ensues, and much angst later I find that although the hard disk can be
> > seen in the Bios and in my XP partition, it has suddenly disappeared from
> > Vista. This is a bit strange as we've been using it there for the last month
> > with no issues.
> >
> > Anyone got a clue what's going on and how to rectify it?
> >
> > Thanks.

> Thanks for the response; I'd checked there and came up with nothing. As far
> as Vista is concerned (device manager, disk management, explorer) the drive
> is gone.
>
> "freddy" wrote:
>

> > Mr Fribbit,
> >
> > Try viewing the Vista partition in Disk Management. Right click Computer
> > (formerly My Computer) and select Manage > Disk Management. All your drives
> > and assigned drive letters should show up there.
> >
> > In Disk Management, you have various options for managing your drives. For
> > example, you can change drive letters. Just look around at the various
> > options and Actions available to see whether one of them can provide the
> > resolution you need. There is also a Help file available, as I recall.
> >
> > Let us know what happens,
> >
> > Freddy
> > --
> > freddy
> >
> >
> > "Mr Fribbit" wrote:
> >

> > > Imagine the scene: I've just got home from a hard day at work, and my wife
> > > says "I went to have a look at the babies photos, but couldn't find them -
> > > Where have you put them?", I reply with a rather sarcastic "They're on the
> > > disk labelled 'Photos'...", to which I got a "But that doesn't exist
> > > anymore..."
> > >
> > > Panic ensues, and much angst later I find that although the hard disk can be
> > > seen in the Bios and in my XP partition, it has suddenly disappeared from
> > > Vista. This is a bit strange as we've been using it there for the last month
> > > with no issues.
> > >
> > > Anyone got a clue what's going on and how to rectify it?
> > >
> > > Thanks.

>Thanks for the response; I'd checked there and came up with nothing. As far
>as Vista is concerned (device manager, disk management, explorer) the drive
>is gone.
>
>"freddy" wrote:
>

>> Mr Fribbit,
>>
>> Try viewing the Vista partition in Disk Management. Right click Computer
>> (formerly My Computer) and select Manage > Disk Management. All your drives
>> and assigned drive letters should show up there.
>>
>> In Disk Management, you have various options for managing your drives. For
>> example, you can change drive letters. Just look around at the various
>> options and Actions available to see whether one of them can provide the
>> resolution you need. There is also a Help file available, as I recall.
>>
>> Let us know what happens,
>>
>> Freddy
>> --
>> freddy
>>
>>
>> "Mr Fribbit" wrote:
>>

>> > Imagine the scene: I've just got home from a hard day at work, and my wife
>> > says "I went to have a look at the babies photos, but couldn't find them -
>> > Where have you put them?", I reply with a rather sarcastic "They're on the
>> > disk labelled 'Photos'...", to which I got a "But that doesn't exist
>> > anymore..."
>> >
>> > Panic ensues, and much angst later I find that although the hard disk can be
>> > seen in the Bios and in my XP partition, it has suddenly disappeared from
>> > Vista. This is a bit strange as we've been using it there for the last month
>> > with no issues.
>> >
>> > Anyone got a clue what's going on and how to rectify it?
>> >
>> > Thanks.

> Thanks for the response; I'd checked there and came up with nothing. As
> far
> as Vista is concerned (device manager, disk management, explorer) the
> drive
> is gone.
>
> "freddy" wrote:
>

>> Mr Fribbit,
>>
>> Try viewing the Vista partition in Disk Management. Right click Computer
>> (formerly My Computer) and select Manage > Disk Management. All your
>> drives
>> and assigned drive letters should show up there.
>>
>> In Disk Management, you have various options for managing your drives.
>> For
>> example, you can change drive letters. Just look around at the various
>> options and Actions available to see whether one of them can provide the
>> resolution you need. There is also a Help file available, as I recall.
>>
>> Let us know what happens,
>>
>> Freddy
>> --
>> freddy
>>
>>
>> "Mr Fribbit" wrote:
>>

>> > Imagine the scene: I've just got home from a hard day at work, and my
>> > wife
>> > says "I went to have a look at the babies photos, but couldn't find
>> > them -
>> > Where have you put them?", I reply with a rather sarcastic "They're on
>> > the
>> > disk labelled 'Photos'...", to which I got a "But that doesn't exist
>> > anymore..."
>> >
>> > Panic ensues, and much angst later I find that although the hard disk
>> > can be
>> > seen in the Bios and in my XP partition, it has suddenly disappeared
>> > from
>> > Vista. This is a bit strange as we've been using it there for the last
>> > month
>> > with no issues.
>> >
>> > Anyone got a clue what's going on and how to rectify it?
>> >
>> > Thanks.

> Imagine the scene: I've just got home from a hard day at work, and my wife
> says "I went to have a look at the babies photos, but couldn't find them -
> Where have you put them?", I reply with a rather sarcastic "They're on the
> disk labelled 'Photos'...", to which I got a "But that doesn't exist
> anymore..."
>
> Panic ensues, and much angst later I find that although the hard disk can be
> seen in the Bios and in my XP partition, it has suddenly disappeared from
> Vista. This is a bit strange as we've been using it there for the last month
> with no issues.
>
> Anyone got a clue what's going on and how to rectify it?
>
> Thanks.

> Mr Fribbit,
>
> I just had the wild idea that, since BIOS detects the Vista partition,
> select that as the first boot device, in BIOS. Have you tried that?
> --
> freddy
>
>
> "Mr Fribbit" wrote:
>

> > Imagine the scene: I've just got home from a hard day at work, and my wife
> > says "I went to have a look at the babies photos, but couldn't find them -
> > Where have you put them?", I reply with a rather sarcastic "They're on the
> > disk labelled 'Photos'...", to which I got a "But that doesn't exist
> > anymore..."
> >
> > Panic ensues, and much angst later I find that although the hard disk can be
> > seen in the Bios and in my XP partition, it has suddenly disappeared from
> > Vista. This is a bit strange as we've been using it there for the last month
> > with no issues.
> >
> > Anyone got a clue what's going on and how to rectify it?
> >
> > Thanks.

> I hadn't, but I've solved it in a rather convoluted way - Opened the machine,
> unplugged the SATA connector, re-booted, re-connected the SATA connector,
> re-booted and voila one fully functional disk! Now all I have to do is write
> some instructions for my wife for if it happens again...
>
> thanks to everyone who took the time to respond.
>
> "freddy" wrote:
>

> > Mr Fribbit,
> >
> > I just had the wild idea that, since BIOS detects the Vista partition,
> > select that as the first boot device, in BIOS. Have you tried that?
> > --
> > freddy
> >
> >
> > "Mr Fribbit" wrote:
> >

> > > Imagine the scene: I've just got home from a hard day at work, and my wife
> > > says "I went to have a look at the babies photos, but couldn't find them -
> > > Where have you put them?", I reply with a rather sarcastic "They're on the
> > > disk labelled 'Photos'...", to which I got a "But that doesn't exist
> > > anymore..."
> > >
> > > Panic ensues, and much angst later I find that although the hard disk can be
> > > seen in the Bios and in my XP partition, it has suddenly disappeared from
> > > Vista. This is a bit strange as we've been using it there for the last month
> > > with no issues.
> > >
> > > Anyone got a clue what's going on and how to rectify it?
> > >
> > > Thanks.