SATA Drive Not Recognized

Second SATA Hard Disk Drive Not Recognized
We are at RTM already for Windows 7 ads still no update on this issue. Meanwhile I found this procedure worked for me so I hope others will also find this fix helpful.

Even in the latest build (7600) additional HDD's are not installed after a clean installation of Windows 7 (ie: drives other than the system drive Windows installed to).

I hear of many people (like myself) going as far as using forensic tools to establish if their precious data remains intact which of course it is, as are the partition structures. This can be simply verified by connecting the drive to another system with XP or Vista installed which will then show up in my computer.

The drives appear in the machine BIOS however may or may not appear in the Windows7 Disk management Utility. If it is an old drive with existing data it may appear initialized but not formatted and may ask to format the drive! If it is a new drive then you may initialize it but find it impossible to format!!

The problem appears to be the disk and or volume drivers which Windows refuses to install automatically for additional SSD's and HDD's. While searching for drivers by any method provided (search online & manually) does not produce any positive results, it is possible to load the drivers if you know exactly what to look for, which is the pnp disk driver and Volume manager driver located within C:WindowsSystem32DriverStoreFileRepository

So far of two methods I have found, method 1 has proved the most successful inwhich you use the 'Update Driver Software' option of the unknown device (your drive) found in the Device Manager.

1a.
Open The Device Manager
Select 'Other Devices' and then the drive
Select it and 'Update Driver Software' or from "properties - Driver TAB - Update Driver"
select 'Browse My Computer'
then 'Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer'
scroll to 'Disk drives' and select it and next if needed
select 'Have Disk' and browse to disk.inf within the:

"C:WindowsSystem32DriverStoreFileRepositorydisk.inf_x86_neutral_b431b61a11f8df6c" folder
select it; click 'OK' select the appropriate device if presented. Your hard drive will now show up in Device Manager under 'Disk Drives'

1b.
Under 'Other Devices' you may find 'Storage Manager'
select it and 'Update Driver Software' or from "properties - Driver TAB - Update Driver"
select 'Browse My Computer for driver software'
Check 'include subfolders' and browse to:

'C:WindowsSystem32DriverStoreFileRepository' folder,
then select 'Next' allow Windows to install the driver

Your HDD or SSD will now show in 'My computer' (or 'Disk Management' if it is a new drive where the disk can now be formatted).

2.
If in doubt as to which 'Other Device' is your drive, then select each unknown device in turn and select 'Update driver'. Use the 'Browse My Computer for driver software' Check 'include subfolders' and browse to:

'C:WindowsSystem32DriverStoreFileRepository' folder,
select 'Next' and allow Windows to install drivers it finds.
Still have problems, then return to step 1

3.
The other method (still confirming it's success rate) is updating the device in the new 'Hardware and Printers' selection from Windows Start Menu (which I believe is new and improved in Windows7)

Hope this is useful to all those having this issue and also if anyone would like to enlighten us on why this is happening, we'll all be much appreciated.

Posted: Thursday, October 01, 2009 5:13 PM

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Sorry, I had to edit this message as every time I went to type E colon, slash, it gave a smiley face. so the E; = E colon, slash to indicate E assigned hard drive letter, the new hard drive.

When I boot to XP with the new hard drive (E; shows up fine.

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To be sure, I disconnected the Windows 7, connected XP (PATA) and booted again, sure enough, the new hard drive (E; is fine and shows up.

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The new hard drive was formatted NTFS in WINDOWS XP, the drive letter assigned was E:, when I boot to Windows 7, I have a Virtual Clone Drive which also has the letter E: assigned to it. Could it be possible that Windows 7 does not know what to do since the Virtual Hard Drive was there first and therefore, doesn't show the new hard drive when running Windows 7?

I have tried everything I can to get it to be seen in Win 7 to no avail. Again, it works fine in XP, but does not show up in Windows 7.

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