internal drive not showing in windows 7

bbuckle

PCs, don't you just love them. It's the equivalent of rebuilding ones bathroom every time the tap leaks!

custardy

well H drive shows under Vista so definitely a W7 issue for me

bbuckle

custardy wrote: »

well H drive shows under Vista so definitely a W7 issue for me

Your first post suggests that you have windows installed on your H drive. When you start up in Windows 7 mode, this will be the C drive surely?

Is it just that you don't have an H drive, or is there actually a drive 'missing'?

custardy

bbuckle wrote: »

Your first post suggests that you have windows installed on your H drive. When you start up in Windows 7 mode, this will be the C drive surely?

Is it just that you don't have an H drive, or is there actually a drive 'missing'?

no,windows 7 is on the H drive.this doesnt change
my vista install is on the C drive
this isnt a new install,i have had this set up since W7 was beta

so if i boot in vista i see vista on C and my windows 7 drive(h)
if i boot in W7 is see the vista drive C but H isnt there

bbuckle

When you say you can see the H drive in Disk Management, do you mean you can see the drive letter assigned by Windows, or is it a volume label you've applied?

Is it possible to take a screenshot of what you can see and post it?

spud17

I thought that Windows always assigned C to the system drive, so what is H in Vista will be C in W7 and vice versa.
Are the 2 internal drives identical?
See my problem above, you have 4 external drives, is it possible that one has been assigned H, so you have a clash?

custardy

there you go



all the drives have separate drive letters C & H for boot drives,I R O P Q D J N are all storage
all drives except the H drive show in my computer so they have their letters in place
the H drive shows under vista so it hasnt changed and i am on the W7 install right now

bbuckle

Ah I see. It's one physical disk partitioned for dual boot.

It looks quite normal, with the C drive containing the System files and the boot files for Vista and H containing the boot files for Win 7.

When you start in Windows 7 mode, the boot device must have a drive letter assigned to it. If you type cmd into the 'run' box, what drive letter precedes the cursor (i.e. c:\users\myuser)?

custardy

h:\users\ultimatesexgod

bbuckle

I have no idea what this could be, but I did see a rather odd fix somebody else suggested (and seemed to work).


In Windows Explorer: "Organize" -> "Folder and search options".
Then under "Navigation pane" mark
"Show all folders" and
"Automatically expand to current folder".

If you then turn this off the icon, apparently, returns.