HDD Undetected in Windows

[nrhk]

Recently my MyBook got corrupted or something and stopped working. I figured since it was out of warrenty, I might as well take it out and try to use it as a regular hd. Some people reported this actually fixed the errors.

Anyways I do that but it's undetected in Windows. I can see it in Bios, during Post and even on the Ubuntu live CD but I don't know how I can fix it at this point.

I tried using the Ubuntu live CD to format the drive but it didn't work

Any ideas?

 

[mailpup]

Does it use a SATA connection rather than a IDE (PATA) connection? If so and you are using Windows XP, you might need to install SATA/RAID drivers for your motherboard.

 

[nrhk]

I'm using Vista, 2 HDDs both SATA but no Raid

 

[mailpup]

Vista should already have the drivers that XP lacks. The drivers are sometimes referred to as RAID drivers or SATA/RAID drivers but it's the same thing even if you have no intention of setting up a RAID array.

That said, I'm don't have Vista so I don't know it's intricacies but see if you can go into Disk Management and see if the hard drive can be seen there. If so, try formating it from there.

 

[nrhk]

The drivers are installed, it isn't showing up in Disk Managment or anything. It does show up in Bios and on Linux Live discs. Problem is I haven't been able to format it from any of those sources.

I ran Driver Fitness Test which can also detect the drive.