Re: New Harddrive recognized by BIOS but not Windows? (NWS)
 

maybe you got screwed? but i play solitare so i dont know.....

Re: New Harddrive recognized by BIOS but not Windows? (NWS)
 

type source in your search bar and then go through and reinstall your drivers

Re: New Harddrive recognized by BIOS but not Windows? (NWS)
 

SATA????

Re: New Harddrive recognized by BIOS but not Windows? (NWS)
 

No its not SATA, using a standard IDE cable

Re: New Harddrive recognized by BIOS but not Windows? (NWS)
 

The master boot record is fucked. Use a MBR repair utility like ontrack disk manager. You should be in good shape after that. I had the same thing happen with a drive I found that a roomate left. I recovered 100gigs of teh hardcore prOn. Some of it was prego porn though. :l It had me wondering about him. :3

Re: New Harddrive recognized by BIOS but not Windows? (NWS)
 

The man speaks the truth.

Re: New Harddrive recognized by BIOS but not Windows? (NWS)
 

rofl... in the disk manager you should have an option to initialize the drive.


Do that.. then report back nig.

Re: New Harddrive recognized by BIOS but not Windows? (NWS)
 

The drive doesn't show up in Disk Manager.
Shows up in "Devices" and in BIOS only.
Under Devices it says the drive is working properly although you cant actually get to the drive.

Im looking for a (free) MBR utility now to give that a shot.

Re: New Harddrive recognized by BIOS but not Windows? (NWS)
 

Torrent Hiren's boot CD. MULTIPLE different softwares.

Re: New Harddrive recognized by BIOS but not Windows? (NWS)
 

Found Hirens latest BootCD and am downloading it now.

I just found out (from previous seller) that this Harddrive was previously used in his modded Xbox (has some games on it). How does that affect everything when I plug it into a Windows OS computer? Im not familiar with using a HD on an Xbox. How will that affect fixing the problem?