Vista wont recognize slave Harddrive

[s281dash554]

I recently had a power supply fail in my pc, its not the first time, I built the PC and have pretty much background knowledge about computers. I am stumped on this however, I replaced the power supply, very routine anymore. Fired it up, booted fine, and am currently using it now; however my secondary hard drive will not show up in “my computer”. It shows in device manager as “This device is working correctly” It shows in the BIOS. Every time I restart and go back into device manager the Drive is not listed until I click search for “plug and play” hardware, then it remains listed as working correctly. Also note that it shows as being only 8mb, it is a 120 gig. I'm thinking it's a partition problem. I have a lot of personal files on the drive and am looking for a way around formatting it to make it work again. Any help would be great; I'm tearing my hair out over this thing. K8V MB, 3200+ AMD, 30gig WD master drive, 120gig Slave drive, Gig of pc3200 Ram. I'm running Vista ultimate, blah.

 

[Ste]

Is the Drive connected by SATA or IDE?

Have you tried a different Cable and molex connector to the drive.

If that doesn't work try the drive in another computer.

 

[kmote]

My guess is either you knocked the data connector out, have not plugged in the power cable firmly or the new PSU is bad. I agree with ste, try another molex and while your in there check the data cable.

 

[carnageX]

Make sure the partition didn't get somehow corrupted by looking to see if its recognized in Disk Management.

 

[s281dash554]

It is IDE, I went over all connections, changed the data cable and tryed a different power supply connection, it will show in disk management, and in the bios, however it is showing as being less than 8mb instead of 120gb, I think the partition got messed up, and the 8mb is just unnallocated from the original partioning. For some reason the computer will not recognize it automatically, I have to go into the device manager and hit search for plug and play devices, then it will show in computer management. I think its working properly just the partition got screwed up, is there a way to repartition it without losing my data? It seems so simple I just dont want to lose all my data by formatting it. Thanks for your previous and future replies.