Hey guys, I hope it's okay to post this in the forums. This morning I let my roommate borrow my sata cable. Well I got it back, plugged it in correctly, and have not been able to get my sata drive to show up in windows. It displays the correct information in bios, and I even booted into a linux distro and it worked perfectly. I have been to the disk management tool, and it does not see the drive. It also doesn't show up under "disk drives" in the device manager. I'm really at a lost as to what else to try. Does anyone have any ideas. I know the drive works fine since it worked correctly in linux. Thanks in advanced.

Quote: Original post by Pemaden
Hey guys, I hope it's okay to post this in the forums.

This morning I let my roommate borrow my sata cable. Well I got it back, plugged it in correctly, and have not been able to get my sata drive to show up in windows. It displays the correct information in bios, and I even booted into a linux distro and it worked perfectly.

I have been to the disk management tool, and it does not see the drive. It also doesn't show up under "disk drives" in the device manager. I'm really at a lost as to what else to try.

Does anyone have any ideas. I know the drive works fine since it worked correctly in linux. Thanks in advanced.

This seems really wierd, you could always try reinstalling the drivers for the SATA controller (Its just a wild guess)

Perhaps the drive is now in AHCI mode instead of IDE "emulation" mode?

Thanks everyone. It appears that windows decided to take it upon itself to uninstall my RAID drivers. I'm now in the process of trying to find the right thing to install, but it's not going well :\ May just have to re-install vista.

Thanks again for the help guys.