vista and external hard drive problem

[Chris12923]

I have external maxtor usb drive. Previously I have been able to use it in vista fine. I reinstalled vista from my acer recovery disc :( and now I can not see my maxtor anymore. I installed Ubuntu which I am typing on now and can see my drive fine though. Any ideas how to see my drive again in vista?

Thanks,

Chris

[nexstar]

{QUOTE-> Any ideas how to see my drive again in vista? <-QUOTE}
Chris, this shouldn't really apply in this case but I've got an external that doesn't initially show up under my UBCD environment. What I have to do is to right-click on My Computer, select Manage and then Disk Management. The drives are then shown but, in my case, the external hadn't been assigned a letter. Once I did that manually it was ok. Vista really shouldn't have this problem though so it may not help.

I can't remember if this is the same sequence under Vista. I've just converted my one Vista setup back to XP :o .

Graham

[Chris12923]

Thanks I'll give it a shot. I can hear the sound when I plug it ad unplug it in so maybe this will work. I'll let you know.

Thanks,

Chris

[Chris12923]

OK I can see it in Vista's disk management utility and all it says is healthy EISA configuration. I looked that up but don't really know what it means. I can't right click on it at all besides just seing help and no other options. So my next question is how to get the info off there and onto a partition on one of my other drives. I have linux cd but am not to familiar with it so any links of how to do this or instructions would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Chris

[nexstar]

What about BartPE or UBCD? Can you access it from one of those environments?

Graham

[Chris12923]

{QUOTE-> What about BartPE or UBCD? Can you access it from one of those environments?

Graham <-QUOTE}
If my next attempt does not work I will make a bart pe disc and see what happens.

Thanks,

Chris

[Chris12923]

Well heres what I did. I should have thought of this sooner. Since ATI boot disc is linux based I used it to backup the drive. I then clicked add new drive in TI and formated it. Booted back into windows and I could see the drive so I restored the backup to it. I wish I coulda thought of it sooner though. What a lifesaver.

Thanks,

Chris