strange hardrive

[zalakes]

my hardrive shows in post, shows in device manager, but does not show any where else. eg My Computer, Disk Defragment it does not show in all these things.

[jfountain02]

It might need to be re-formatted

[Coconut Monkey]

jfountain02 is on the right track. ;)

See here.

[zalakes]

you cannot access the hard drive from any where including xp setup so formating i\does not work

[Coconut Monkey]

Zalakes, did you read the guide I posted?

I assume this is a new hard drive you've rigged up, so in order to access it you need to create a partition which you then format. The link above contains detailed instructions on how to do this in Windows XP. ;)

[zalakes]

its not a new hard drive... What im saying is that you cannot access the drive. it was working fine until a few weeks ago, u can see the drive in device manager but no where else.

[Coconut Monkey]

I see now, sorry for the mix-up. What kind of drive is it? Model, make and interface type.

Regardless, you should check out the disk management section mentioned in the guide I posted. That should provide some information on what exactly is happening with the hard drive.

[zalakes]

i used seatools and found lots of errors on the drive so i think i should just throw it away or put it in the freezer. lol

[Coconut Monkey]

Actual bad sectors or possible partition errors? I'm not sure what Seatools tests for but you could just have a corrupted paritition. If there's nothing worth recovering then perhaps a zerofill utility could give you a working (albeit blank) drive.