Hard Drive not appearing in My Computer
 

Apologies if this has been asked before, I am new to all of this.

I have a Maxtor 20GB Hard Drive 7200.

Manufactured in Feb 2001, and has worked fine until I did a computer restart
the other day. Suddenly it is not recognised, says no bootable drive. I
went to the Maxtor website and downloaded a Maxtor Diagnostic Floppy, and
this said the drive was fine, as it passed all tests. Yet it still will not
boot the computer :-( Says not bootable.

I am using an old 1GB drive to get online, by the way.

If I connect the 20GB as a Slave (removing the jumpers to do so) - it shows
the drive detected when booting up.

BUT - in My Computer, it does not appear at all. Also does not appear in
DOS.

I am going crazy, don't know what to do next. I have so much precious data
that I need to recover at least.

Hi Jim,

What model do you have?

Hd




"Jim" wrote in message ...
Apologies if this has been asked before, I am new to all of this.

I have a Maxtor 20GB Hard Drive 7200.

Manufactured in Feb 2001, and has worked fine until I did a computer restart
the other day. Suddenly it is not recognised, says no bootable drive. I
went to the Maxtor website and downloaded a Maxtor Diagnostic Floppy, and
this said the drive was fine, as it passed all tests. Yet it still will not
boot the computer :-( Says not bootable.

I am using an old 1GB drive to get online, by the way.

If I connect the 20GB as a Slave (removing the jumpers to do so) - it shows
the drive detected when booting up.

BUT - in My Computer, it does not appear at all. Also does not appear in
DOS.

I am going crazy, don't know what to do next. I have so much precious data
that I need to recover at least.

Model 5T020H2



"HddGuru" wrote in message
om...
Hi Jim,

What model do you have?

Hd




"Jim" wrote in message
...
Apologies if this has been asked before, I am new to all of this.

I have a Maxtor 20GB Hard Drive 7200.

Manufactured in Feb 2001, and has worked fine until I did a computer
restart
the other day. Suddenly it is not recognised, says no bootable drive.
I
went to the Maxtor website and downloaded a Maxtor Diagnostic Floppy,
and
this said the drive was fine, as it passed all tests. Yet it still will
not
boot the computer :-( Says not bootable.

I am using an old 1GB drive to get online, by the way.

If I connect the 20GB as a Slave (removing the jumpers to do so) - it
shows
the drive detected when booting up.

BUT - in My Computer, it does not appear at all. Also does not appear
in
DOS.

I am going crazy, don't know what to do next. I have so much precious
data
that I need to recover at least.