internal drive not showing in windows 7

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custardy
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right so i have 2 internal drives and 4 external hooked up to this PC
i have dual boot with Vista on C and W7 on H

however my H drive isnt showing in my computer
all other drives show and in disk management the H drive shows fine

probably something simple but any ideas on whats up?
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  • Richie-from-the-Boro
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    It wasn't allocated a drive letter - so it [ even though it's physically visible ] doesn't exist, or ;
    you can't have two primary / active on the same O/S ?
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    Richie-from-the-Boro wrote: »
    It wasn't allocated a drive letter - so it [ even though it's physically visible ] doesn't exist, or ;
    you can't have two primary / active on the same O/S ?

    You can have more than one primary on the same system , however you can only have one System/Action Partition ... I think :D
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  • parcel_guru
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    on the disk management, did you right click on the h drive and then explore?
  • custardy
    custardy Posts: 38,365 Forumite
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    parcel_guru wrote: »
    on the disk management, did you right click on the h drive and then explore?

    yup,opened up an explorer window showing the contents of H drive
    H drive works fne,i just cant see it in my computer
  • spud17
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    edited 2 April 2010 at 11:40AM
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    i have dual boot with Vista on C and W7 on H
    Is it 64 bit W7?

    My card reader, I,J,K and L has disappeared since the weekend, it shows in disk management but not in Computer, all other drives are as they should be.

    Coincidence, or something similar?

    I've disconnected the internal usb, rebooted, reconnected and booted again, but it's still not showing in Computer.
    Move along, nothing to see.
  • custardy
    custardy Posts: 38,365 Forumite
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    hi there,nope im on 32 bit W7
    i cant do it now as im transferring files but tomorrow i will boot into Vista and see what drives show on that
  • spud17
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    Strange, also I forgot to mention that the 4 drives of the reader all show in 32bit Ubuntu (dual boot).
    Move along, nothing to see.
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    spud17 wrote: »
    Strange, also I forgot to mention that the 4 drives of the reader all show in 32bit Ubuntu (dual boot).

    It could be that you have the option to hide empty drives checked.

    Go to Start - Computer - Organize - Folder and search options then click on the 'View' tab, then uncheck the 'Hide empty drives in the Computer folder' box and press OK.
  • spud17
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    bbuckle wrote: »
    It could be that you have the option to hide empty drives checked.

    Go to Start - Computer - Organize - Folder and search options then click on the 'View' tab, then uncheck the 'Hide empty drives in the Computer folder' box and press OK.

    Thanks for that, but the card reader has always been visible, empty or not.

    I'm pretty sure I now know the (minor) problem, which I've only just noticed.

    On Sunday I plugged in an old HD in a caddy, it had never been on this PC, but on my previous PC it had been assigned drive letter L, which clashes with the card reader allocating I,J,K and L.
    I'll have a look when I get time.
    It's not exactly life or death. :)
    Move along, nothing to see.
  • spud17
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    Sorted, disconnected the card reader usb from the mobo, also printers and mouse, booted up with ps2 mouse, deleted everything usb in Device Manager.
    Rebooted with everything reconnected, all devices appeared back in their correct positions.
    Move along, nothing to see.
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