Windows Vista Hard drive test

How can I test a hard drive to see if it's got a problem or the problem is elswhere. I have two 500 Gig hard drives and drive 'D' does not show up when I click on 'Computer'. I cannot access this drive. Help!

 

When I run the diagnostic utility on the Seagate drive, Drive C, it is not listed in the found drives. When I run the diagnostic utility (WD) on the WD drive, that should be drive D, the only drive it finds is drive C. Very disappointed in both utilities. The Seagate Utility doesn't find the Seagate drive and that's the working one. The WD utility finds the Seagate drive but not the WD drive.

The WD drive does NOT show up in the device manager or in Computer, but does show up in the bios settings.

This is about to drive me up a wall.

 

Thanks for the update.

Look in Disk Management, Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Disk Management. You might find the drive there, but it has not been allocated a drive letter [although the WD utilities should still see it ].

A maybe...try booting into Safe Mode and running the WD utilities there.

Try disconnecting the cables to the HDD, start up and boot into Windows, then shut down and reconnect it again. If there are spare SATA connections on the motherboard, you could try another.

In the WD utilities, see if it will make a bootable testing disk, try using that.

Matt

 

Drive D is not listed there,. Mattman. And I've already tried disconnecting the drive, etc.

Arie, I'll try that.

Thanks, guys

 

I'm working on it, Matt. It's been hectic around here this week. Thanks for the reminder.