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Hard drive not recognized

Asked by Chatable in Windows 2000 Operating System

Tags: manage

Hello,
My computer has a promise IDE card, which together with the motherboard IDE controller, gives me 4 IDE channels, each supporting 2 devices - 8 devices max.
I used to have only 4 devices -
1) 40GB Maxtor Hard-Drive
2) 200GB WD Hard-Drive (This is why I got the promise card - My BIOS won't recognize cards over 137GB)
3) DVD-ROM
4) CD-Writer
Recently I installed a new IDE-based flash reader. The new drive is recognized just fine, however, my system stopped recogninzing the 200GB WD drive. Almost all my files are stored on that drive. HELP!
Some interesting things I noticed -
1) The problematic drive does show up in the Device Manager (under Disk Drives). It does not however show up in the Disk Management snap-in, neither does it have an associated drive letter.
2) When I boot my system to DOS, it does give me access to the drive.
Some issue that might or might not be of relevance - Due to problems with the length of the IDE cable I'm temporarily using a 40-conductor IDE cable for the Hard-Drives. I know it slows them down - but is there any reason for a large 200GB hard-drive not to work at all with those cables?

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Hard drive not recognized

Asked by Chatable in Windows 2000 Operating System

Tags: manage

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