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Hello.
I have a dard disk seagate 320 gb. It showing in device manager under the disk drives and it says that the drivers are all ok. But when i click on disk managment it is not showing. Also it is not detected my bios.
I have tried some softwares from hirens boot cd but no any change.
anyone can help me with this ?

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Quick, focused troubleshooting steps for a drive that shows in Device Manager but not in Disk Management or the BIOS (as reported by ). Because the BIOS does not see the disk, start with hardware and controller-level checks first — most problems like this turn out to be a bad power/cable/port or a failed drive electronics board, not a Windows partition issue.

Power/cable checks (do these before any software fixes)

  • Power off, unplug, then reseat both the SATA data and SATA power connectors.
  • Swap the SATA data cable and use a different motherboard SATA port and a different PSU power connector.
  • Listen for drive spin-up or unusual clicking; no spin usually means no power or a dead PCB/mechanical failure.
  • If available, connect the drive to another known-working desktop (or a USB-SATA adapter/enclosure) to rule out the original PC.

Windows-level and diagnostic checks

  • In Disk Management use Action -> Rescan Disks. In Device Manager check the disk entry properties -> Details -> Hardware Ids to confirm how Windows is seeing it (SATA vs USB).
  • From an elevated command prompt try DiskPart:
    diskpart
rescan
list disk
exit

    If DiskPart and BIOS both do not list the disk but Device Manager shows something, that can indicate a ghost/driver presentation or failing firmware.

Further steps and cautions

  • Boot a Linux live USB and run sudo lsblk / dmesg to see kernel messages; these can reveal low-level errors.
  • Do NOT initialize or write to the disk if you need to recover data — initialization will overwrite partition metadata. If all cables/ports fail and you still get no BIOS detection, the drive likely has a hardware/firmware failure; for important data consider a professional recovery service. and were on the right track checking connection type and "foreign disk" states — follow the hardware checks first, then proceed with non-destructive diagnostics.

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Member Avatar for rubberman

How is this connected to the system - sata, usb, ide?

Member Avatar for nstrazimiri

the connection is sata

Member Avatar for JorgeM

Do you see an devices in "Disk Management" labeled as "Foreign Disk". If so, the disk would have to be imported and initialized (using the Disk Managememt console)

Member Avatar for nstrazimiri

not its not showing there.

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