Second Hard Drive not showing up in 'My Computer'

[sgrooms]

I know this is an old thread, but I'm having problem accessing disk management. My second hdd shows up in bios and device manager, but not in my computer. I'm assuming I need to partition and assign it a drive letter, however, when I click on disk management I get the following error:
"An Internal error occured. Restart the Disk Management snap-in."

When I click ok, I then get the following error,"Microsoft Management Console has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."

I'm stumped and any help would be greatly appreciated... THANKS

NOTE: this question was also posted in this thread:
http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.php?t=175212

[glc]

Have you tried starting it by putting the following in the Run box:

diskmgmt.msc

Administrative tools, services - make sure Logical Disk Manager is running, and attempt to start Logical Disk Manager Administrative Service.

http://forums.scotsnewsletter.com/index.php?showtopic=17525

[sgrooms]

Have you tried starting it by putting the following in the Run box:

diskmgmt.msc

Administrative tools, services - make sure Logical Disk Manager is running, and attempt to start Logical Disk Manager Administrative Service.

http://forums.scotsnewsletter.com/index.php?showtopic=17525

Yes, I just tried it and got the same error.

[glc]

You tried all that, including the OCX registration in that other thread and goretsky's recommendations? What exact version of Windows do you have and which service pack level?

[sgrooms]

You tried all that, including the OCX registration in that other thread and goretsky's recommendations?

correct, and same error.

[sgrooms]

I'm running chkdsk again on a restart and it seems to be finding quite a lot of bad clusters, so hopefully after this it will work.


The chkdsk the first time had three stages; verifying files, verifying indexes, and verifying security descriptors. This time however(after the restart) it is on a stage four, "verifying file data."

[sgrooms]

nope. same error.

[glc]

If you have bad clusters, your hard drive is failing. You need to run manufacturer's diagnostics on it. A new primary drive and Windows reinstall is probably in your near future.