Damn you SEAAGATTEEE

[Inferno]

My seagate 60gb sata drive is no longer showing up in my computer. I really doubt it crashed since I never use that drive but it is possible.

How exactly do I do diagnostics on the drive I haven't run then in a long time.

[Masterz1337]

I had a similar problem. Just power down and just push all your wires in a little more to make sure the connections are solid, and dust the thing out. I did that when I had that problem and everything worked fine after.

[Inferno]

The wires are secure. I can hear the drive running. It might be possible that I have the wrong sata slot active. I have like 4 slots and only one enabled. I'll check my BIOS next time I restart my computer.

[legionaire45]

All Programs -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Disk Management -> See if it shows up there. (Note: using Vista here, might be a bit different for Win 7 or XP)

If it doesn't show up, than that can mean that the drive itself or the enclosure is dead. If it shows up but isn't active, Try "marking partition as active" or assign it a drive letter.

[Inferno]

Oddly, I just reset my PC because fallout 3 was crashing and now the vista drive is showing up.

Weird.

[Masterz1337]

It was your vista drive as well? Same here.

[Amit]

That's strange. Isn't your vista hard drive the one you're using? If so, it shouldn't be a surprise that it shows up.

[Inferno]

I don't use the vista drive. It wasn't showing up for a few days. I post here. It starts showing up again.

I only use vista for the occasional H2V game.

[Cortexian]

Usually you have to assign Vista drives letters manually in the Disk Manager or they don't display properly. If you haven't done that you should look into it.