I uninstalled Intel Rapid Storage Technology and low and behold after reboot the system installed ATA device drivers for all the drives including the Data drive.
The minimum INTEL RST F6 driver required is 9.6 these Drivers are called AHCI drivers for AMD Chipsets and Forceware Drivers for the other vendor whose name is BLEEP.
Intel Rapid Storage Technology F6 Driver This package provides the driver for Intel Rapid Storage Technology F6 Driver for OptiPlex, Precision, Latitude, XPS, Alienware, Inspiron, Vostro, and PowerEdge Servers series running the following Windows Operating Systems: Win 7, Win 8.1, and Win 10.More details
15.2.15.1058
WB32A WT64A Windows 7 64-bit WB64A Windows 8 32-bit Windows 8 64-bit WT32A Windows 7 32-bit
Intel Management Engine Components Installer This package provides the driver for the Intel(R) Management Engine Components Installer installs Intel Management Engine Interface Driver, Intel(R) Management & Security Status software, LMS service etc. and is supported on the Dell Latitude, Precision, XPS models, OptiPlex and Workstation Server running the following Windows operating systems: Windows 10 64bit, Windows 7 32/64 bit, Windows Server 2K12 R2, Windows Server 2K8 and Windows Server 2K16. Note: This driver is required to install in addition to chipset driver.More details
11.7.0.1054
Windows 7 32-bit Windows Server 2008 R2 WTS01 Windows 7 64-bit WT64A MWS80 WB64A W12R2 WST14
Intel USB eXtensible Host Controller Driver This package provides the driver for Intel USB 3.0/3.1 eXtensible Host Controller and is supported on Latitude/Precision/OptiPlex/XPS/Inspiron/Vostro/IOT systems running the following Windows 7.More details
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Intel 100 Series Chipset Driver This package provides Intel 100 Series Chipset Driver and is supported on XPS 8900 running the following Windows Operating systems: Windows 7, 8.1, 10 .More details
rangergordxx
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Well Holy Guacamole
I uninstalled Intel Rapid Storage Technology and low and behold after reboot the system installed ATA device drivers for all the drives including the Data drive.
Now I can access the drive.
ejn63
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February 22nd, 2018 18:00
If Windows 7 recognized one drive, it's not a driver/controller issue. Does the drive have an MBR layout, or GPT?
speedstep
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February 23rd, 2018 03:00
For anything other than SATA OPERATION ATA mode advanced Format Drives REQUIRE F6 Drivers.
Otherwise you get the dreaded “Windows Setup could not configure Windows on this computer’s hardware” as well as not "Seeing" the drive.
AHCI REQUIRES F6 Mass Storage Drivers. This is true for windows xp / vista / 7 / 8 / 10.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2466753/
The minimum INTEL RST F6 driver required is 9.6 these Drivers are called AHCI drivers for AMD Chipsets and Forceware Drivers for the other vendor whose name is BLEEP.
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000005646/technologies.html
This package provides the driver for Intel Rapid Storage Technology F6 Driver for OptiPlex, Precision, Latitude, XPS, Alienware, Inspiron, Vostro, and PowerEdge Servers series running the following Windows Operating Systems: Win 7, Win 8.1, and Win 10.More details
WT64A
Windows 7 64-bit
WB64A
Windows 8 32-bit
Windows 8 64-bit
WT32A
Windows 7 32-bit
This package provides the driver for the Intel(R) Management Engine Components Installer installs Intel Management Engine Interface Driver, Intel(R) Management & Security Status software, LMS service etc. and is supported on the Dell Latitude, Precision, XPS models, OptiPlex and Workstation Server running the following Windows operating systems: Windows 10 64bit, Windows 7 32/64 bit, Windows Server 2K12 R2, Windows Server 2K8 and Windows Server 2K16. Note: This driver is required to install in addition to chipset driver.More details
Windows Server 2008 R2
WTS01
Windows 7 64-bit
WT64A
MWS80
WB64A
W12R2
WST14
This package provides the driver for Intel USB 3.0/3.1 eXtensible Host Controller and is supported on Latitude/Precision/OptiPlex/XPS/Inspiron/Vostro/IOT systems running the following Windows 7.More details
Windows 7 32-bit
W74S
Microsoft Windows Embedded
This package provides Intel 100 Series Chipset Driver and is supported on XPS 8900 running the following Windows Operating systems: Windows 7, 8.1, 10 .More details
Windows 7 64-bit
WB64A
WT64A
rangergordxx
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February 23rd, 2018 07:00
Thanks for your detailed reply.
I did install the F6 driver for my Win32 system. But I still cannot get the OS to recognize the disk.
As ejn63 suggested the problem may be with the disk itself. Ant thoughts?
rangergordxx
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February 23rd, 2018 07:00
Thanks for your reply.
I checked with MiniTool partition Wizard and it is MBR. See attached screen capture:
Is there something I can do with the disk? I have everything backedup so I can reformat or wipe it?
rangergordxx
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February 24th, 2018 06:00
I'll leave things for a week or so to make sure it all works before I give it a Accept as Solution.