Hard drive woes! (FIXED)

[HBN]

Having an issue with my laptop/PS3 HDD turned portable USB hard drive.

I know my SATA encoder board is good as it works flawlessly on another laptop drive.

The issue is this:

The computer detects it, but won't display it. The drivers installed fine. Everything seems to be up to spec. It's just not showing up to where I can use it. Is this a formating issue? If it is, how do I format it when I cant access it?

I also tried mounting it in Ubuntu, thinking maybe it was a conflict with Vista, and it says "Cannot mount drive" (Or something akin to that).

This is really bugging me because I'd like to...you know....USE my harddrive.

Ideas? Had this problem before? How'd you fix it? Were you even able to? Really need help guys.


You're awesome,
--HBN

[vskid]

Try right-clicking "My Computer", click "Manage". In the Computer Management window that comes up, go to Storage>Disk Management. You might be able to find the drive in there to format it.
Note: I'm not sure if you can do this in Vista, since I've never really used it.

[bicostp]

Does it work if you directly plug it into a motherboard SATA port?

[HBN]

Try right-clicking "My Computer", click "Manage". In the Computer Management window that comes up, go to Storage>Disk Management. You might be able to find the drive in there to format it.
Note: I'm not sure if you can do this in Vista, since I've never really used it.

This appears to be working, and is 2% in to a format. Thanks!

Does it work if you directly plug it into a motherboard SATA port?

Umm...This is probably a major "Picard face-palm", "Nothing has ever failed quite as hard as you just did. EVER." on my part, but I never thought about checking....lol. If whats going on doesn't work, I'll try that. Thank you also. I'll let you all know if it worked.

[HBN]

Excuse the double post.

Problem solved. Thanks, guys. This can be locked now, if you so please.