recognize hard drive

ok apparently they did post, sorry. I dont see a button to delet the other ones

"jon" wrote:

> I am having a hard time getting vista to recognize my slave hard drive. It
> does show up in drive managment just no drive letter. I would partition and
> format it if it wasnt for the slight problem that all my data is on there
> except windows that i cant loose. I would also use partition magic if it
> worked with vista. And if this is posted more than once sorry because it
> sayed there was a problem.
>

try right-clicking on the partition in drive manager. does it have an option
to "change drive letter and paths"?

"jon" wrote:

> ok apparently they did post, sorry. I dont see a button to delet the other ones
>
> "jon" wrote:
>

> > I am having a hard time getting vista to recognize my slave hard drive. It
> > does show up in drive managment just no drive letter. I would partition and
> > format it if it wasnt for the slight problem that all my data is on there
> > except windows that i cant loose. I would also use partition magic if it
> > worked with vista. And if this is posted more than once sorry because it
> > sayed there was a problem.
> >

no, only delet volume and help, and i did find a way to get partition working
so if there is something i can do there

"Kip" wrote:

> try right-clicking on the partition in drive manager. does it have an option
> to "change drive letter and paths"?
>
> "jon" wrote:
>

> > ok apparently they did post, sorry. I dont see a button to delet the other ones
> >
> > "jon" wrote:
> >

> > > I am having a hard time getting vista to recognize my slave hard drive. It
> > > does show up in drive managment just no drive letter. I would partition and
> > > format it if it wasnt for the slight problem that all my data is on there
> > > except windows that i cant loose. I would also use partition magic if it
> > > worked with vista. And if this is posted more than once sorry because it
> > > sayed there was a problem.
> > >

I have the same problem as Jon. I can see the drive in the computer
management > disk management as well, but its listed as Healthy (Active,
Unknown Partition), with only the options Delete and Help enabled in the
context menu when right clicking on the partition.

I have a Dell Dimension 4600 (P4 3.0G) which supports IDE and SATA HDDs. My
primary OS, XP is installed on my primary master IDE hard drive. I was
unable to install Vista on my SATA drive until I disabled the IDE drive from
the BIOS. It kept giving me an error during the installation process, (not
sure what the code was, but the message was very generic). This error
occured both while trying to install from XP (as a clean install) and
directly booting up via DVD.

Now that VISTA is installed, I have re-enabled the IDE drive in the BIOS,
but Vista does not see or recognize it. XP can see both drives.

Vista recognizes USB external HDDs without any problems.

Jon, did you get this working?

"jon" wrote:

> no, only delet volume and help, and i did find a way to get partition working
> so if there is something i can do there
>
> "Kip" wrote:
>

> > try right-clicking on the partition in drive manager. does it have an option
> > to "change drive letter and paths"?
> >
> > "jon" wrote:
> >

> > > ok apparently they did post, sorry. I dont see a button to delet the other ones
> > >
> > > "jon" wrote:
> > >
> > > > I am having a hard time getting vista to recognize my slave hard drive. It
> > > > does show up in drive managment just no drive letter. I would partition and
> > > > format it if it wasnt for the slight problem that all my data is on there
> > > > except windows that i cant loose. I would also use partition magic if it
> > > > worked with vista. And if this is posted more than once sorry because it
> > > > sayed there was a problem.
> > > >