[pchelpers] Re: Invisible drive headache

PcCowboy wrote:
> John Durham wrote:
>> Here's a new one to think on. I brought a customer's hard drive to the 
>> workshop to backup the files, since his computers could not see the 
>> contents. Unfortunately, neither can mine.
>>
>> The drive is formatted by windows 2000 server (probably NTFS) and is 
>> near the end of its service life. The irony is, my BIOS can see it, but 
>> windows won't show it in 'my computer'. 
> 
> Sometimes a drive will not show up in the "My computer" Until you go to 
> "Computer Management"
> and initialize it.
> 
> Try the free program "PC Inspector File Recovery".
> This program has found  drives and files where it didn't show up
> in bios or windows.
> 
> Pc 
Thanks for all the help on this one, friends. The owner has now accepted 
help to resolve the problem in another way. (The whole system was dying 
anyway). If I get the chance, these suggestions may still be useful in 
helping him.

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