Win XP Disk Management

[Akai]

Hi There,

I have a weird issue here:

In Windows XP Disk Managament, my drives disappeared and is not listed anymore. The only drive I am able to manage is the CD/DVD-Rom drive.

I was in SP1, upgraded to SP2, no result. Even upgraded to SP3. Same story.
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NADA, niks, zilch. Any advise?

Thx

Akkie

 

[LazyLion]

maybe try deleting your disk controller from device manager and then reboot the computer and allow Windows to redect it and reload the drivers.

 

[killadoob]

Do they appear in the bios?

No point trying to fix windows if the drives do not appear in the bios.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Do they appear in the bios?

No point trying to fix windows if the drives do not appear in the bios.

which is a moot point - how did he manage to start windows up without any drives in the BIOS?

Might be driver corruption somewhere - does the same thing happen in safe mode?

And what are you using? SATA, PATA or SCSI?

 

[Akai]

I have one machine with 1 X IDE Drive also, I have one Dell E6400 with SATA drive. Same story

 

[Random717]

Are you using Norton Systemworks or any similar 3rd party utility?

 

[Akai]

Hi Random,

No, not at all.