IDE Drive sort of not seen

[MrBiggz]

Greetings!

I have a 250Gb IDE drive that I use to just keep usless stuff on. It came out of my old XP box. I see my 500Gb sata drive fine .. obviously since I installed Vista on it. When the box boots it sees the IDE drive and device manager see the IDE drive too! Alas when you open windows explorer up you do not see that drive at all!

I don't get it! I checked the DMA settings and it is enabled for each of the channels.

I'll keep google-ing in the mean time!

Thanks in advance!

 

[fdisker]

Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Disk Manager

Make sure the drive is active.

 

[Brink]

Hi Mr.Biggz,

In addition to fdisker's post. After you open Disk Manager, right click on the drive and click Mark Partition as Active. If it is grayed out, it is already active.

Shawn

 

[MrBiggz]

Did both .. thanks guys! They moved stuff around a little bit. Have to bump into the furniture till I find where everything is!

Work like a charm! I now have my 250gb parking lot!

Cheers!

 

[Brink]

Your welcome MrBiggz,

Glad to hear it is working now. Thank you for the feedback.

Shawn