Comments on: Windows 7 SATA Hard Drive Not Showing

By: Ed

Ed — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 15:58:36 +0000

Thanks man! This really helped a lot!

By: James

James — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:39:39 +0000

saved my skin, i thought my new 1.5tb the drive was borked.

By: Juan G.

Juan G. — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:10:23 +0000

Found a solution.

Ok I followed the original instructions and it did not work.

What I had to do for the hard disk to appear on Disk Management was:

after Scan For Hardware Changes
right click on hard drive you wish to fix
click on properties->volumes
click on populate at the bottom.

after click on that I was able to rescan for drives on disk management and it showed up!!

By: Pedro

Pedro — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 02:03:52 +0000

I had the same problem, but with a reformat of the PC, I could not format the drive that was not detected, after severeal hours of trying I finally have found a way, and it’s very easy…

Start menu > right click in computer > manage > then the only thing I had to do was give the letter of choice to the drive…

(this only works if the drive is detected in the Device Manager)

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By: frank

frank — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 20:13:36 +0000

Great help, guys. This morning my HP Media Centre PC (Model # M7250N) started telling me that it could not detect my Samsung HD753LJ SATA HDD that has been running fine for over 2 years!! I used various parts of the advice posted above and ended up navigating through (of all things) the “Computer Management/Help/Microsoft Management Console/Disk Management/Manage Disks/Detect New Disks” path. Following the steps in the right-hand pane got my second HDD back up and running again. It now shows up in the Computer Management console in all its healthy glory. Thumbs up!!!

By: dandan

dandan — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:32:21 +0000

I got a big deal ….. Same problem but I have Important files On my Hdd so i need to back it up before format it i really need help i got more than 300gb of Important files Heeeeelllppppp

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:13:55 +0000

Hey same initial problem, however when I scan it it comes up as additional devices as a “WD SES Device USB Device” and will not recognize or install any drivers. WD tells me i need to reinstall win 7 but I dont want to do that since my cd is states away from me right now. Any thoughts?

By: shelbydogge

shelbydogge — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 18:12:49 +0000

I had this problem. After uninstalling & rescanning as described above, drive still did not show up in Win, but tit does in BIOS.

Going into Computer Mgmt > Device Mgr, the drive showed but had no letters. I assigned letters & then everything was fine.