I have two Western Digital "Green Power" 1 TB hard drives in my system. I recently swapped out the DVD burner in my system. When I rebooted I no longer had one of the drives listed in My Computer (naturally, the main data drive which I hadn't backed up before I swapped DVD burners). Looking at Disk Management I see one of the 1 TB drives, my system drive, my new DVD drive and an unallocated 32 MB disk. Checking the properties of that disk it says it's using the same driver as the 1 TB drive that shows up but it only recognizes it as a 32 MB drive. I did not change any of the cables on the hard drives initially, when this started happening I swapped SATA cables, SATA ports, etc., all of which did nothing - the second TB drive remains intact, the one I "lost" remains a 32 MB unallocated disk.
Anyone have any suggestions?
Anyone have any suggestions?