I am about to set up a new PC with 2 320G Sata drives and a Sata DVD drive. I will be using a Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6 motherboard. Am I going to have a problem with the Sata DVD?
View 9 RepliesNot being too familiar with Sata Drives (I'm used to IDE). I'm asking if you can have two Sata drives on one connection (1 master & 1 slave)?
View 8 Replies View RelatedMy suspicions started off on the DVD-R drive I was using, then moved to my motherboard, then to my SATA controller drivers, and now finally lie on Windows Vista itself (dozens of hours of troubleshooting, adding and removing hardware, and re-installing Vista and XP led me to this conclusion).
The S203N worked completely in XP. In Vista, it works "almost" completely. The catch is that when you put a disc in the drive, the volume label in Windows Explorer does not update (nor does the drive icon, or more importantly, the right-click context menu). Sometimes it recognizes data discs as blank, because of this. However, either rebooting the system, or simply logging out and back in (even easier) will "force" the drive to refresh (volume label, icon, and all).............
I have a 750 GB sata 3.0 HDD which i'm trying to connect to a sata RAID card or motherboard. I've connected my hard drive using an sata cable to both my motherboard and my raid card. When i try either this prevents windows froms starting. The motherboard sata is 3.0gb/s, the raid card is 1.5gb/s. I've tried all jumper settings and made sure all cables are working. I have another sata drive that works with everything. The hdd that works is a samsung, the hdd that doesn't is a western digital recertified.
I have an sata enclosure which has its own powersupply and a sata to esata cable. My hdd above only works when i put the hdd in the enclosure and connect the sata to esata to the motherboard. The enclosure does not work with the raid card.
I recently re-arrange my 4 500GB SATA drives to provide better cooling. The system rebooted fine but every two or three days on booting Vista would kick me back to the BIOS starting screen, or, completely freeze, requiring a reboot. The system then wouldn't boot saying it couldn't find an operating system. Turning the computor off, and a restart would fix the problem until the next time. I resolved this by rearranging my hard drives so that Vistas C drive was the Motherboards logical boot drive. An obvious solution. My question is two fold. Why would BIOS find the Boot Drive sometimes and not others (The disks are not faulty), I perhaps don't fully understand how SATA operates. I have had no further problems to date.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI recently purchased a new system with Vista Home Premium 32bit OS. I have a couple of hard drives (Maxtor) that I would like to recover some files from but when plugged into the new computer, they just don't register. Can't see anything when using IDE or have the hard drives on an adaptor for SATA. The old drives do have XP Pro on them. Is there a clash between OS? How can I read and recover the info I need? I have gone to the Microsoft site to make sure I have all the updates. I have gone to Maxtor to download the up to date installation software. Still nothing. I have checked the BIOS and the SATA ports are initiated (and have talked to the manufacturer HP about the issue and they can't see a problem). I have been able to recognize the old hard drives when I still had the old computer (cleaned it up and gave it to my son with a new hard drive installed). Would like to recover data and start using the old drives as a back up system.
View 4 Replies View RelatedQuestion: I've never never installed SATA drives, I know that when I connect them up and try to run Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit, it will ask me if I need to install SATA drivers (which I have from the Intel CD) but.... what then happens?
1. I only have one DVD drive so do I then take out the windows CD and insert the Intel driver CD or do I put the drivers on a USB stick or something?
2. How do I format the disks and is it straight forward to set up the RAID array?
I am trying to create a recovery disk set that will allow me to image and restore my hard drive, however my last attempt using BARTPE and Driveimaxe xml failed. I was able to backup my hard disk but when i went to restore my partition, I got a bsod. I also tried Acronis home 11 recovery media and it seemed to stall half way through the restore process, backup process wass the same as before. The only way to restore my disk parition is to remove my drive and conect it to an external USB caddy and no problems occur other than it is a little slow and time consuming.
View 8 Replies View Relatedcan i disable the raid sata and use it like ordinary sata for optical drive in the intel D975XBX2?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI need to get a new external HDD for my laptop and I'm thinking of = getting an eSATA drive. My question is this: Can any HDD be turned into = an eSATA drive by housing it an enclosure which has an eSATA port or is = there something special about SATA drives? I'm not sure whether I should = buy an already enclosed SATA or buy the HDD and the enclosure separately = (cheaper option).
View 9 Replies View Relatedi have tried everything said in 'this thread' (http://www.vistax64.com/vista-general/68796-trying-add-second-hdd-vista-home-premium.html) & i still cant initialize the HDD !!!! i get this error:- This request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI cannot boot a drive when connected to the SATA port, however if I use a SATA to USB adapter I CAN boot the drive OK. When I boot connected to SATA the POST freezes on the drive detection and hangs. The SATA port and cable are tested and known to work on other bootable drive
View 8 Replies View RelatedDecided I needed a new PC, so bought and assembled all new components and started to install Vista Business. The HDD is a 500GB SATA drive, the DVD/RW is SATA. 8 GB RAM, but took that down to 4 GB since it isn't Vista 64bit edition..
Anyway, Vista started to install but got a BSOD within a minute. Checked all hardware settings and tried again, and again. Every time it gets a different STOP error. So used an XP CD to format the drive figuring that was the problem. It finished formatting then said it couldn't copy a file kodak??.??? Tried Vista again - BSOD.
Tried booting to the motherboard driver CD to find SATA drives but my only options on boot up was to set up a RAID array. I'm happy with just a normal non-RAID setup. There is no floppy drive. The Maxtor CD would not boot at all. So, how do you set up Vista on a new SATA drive? Is there a set of steps to take that isn't listed in the drive or motherboard installation booklets?
I ran the Windows update on close last night and today my system will not re-boot, my bios cannot see my SATA2 HDD. I have tried repair in windows but no good as HDD is not there. I have tried swapping the SATA sockets etc but they all say none detected. I tried MOBO jumper reset with battery out. The HDD is spinning so the power is working.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have two SATA burners installed with Vista x64, they burn fine but burst rate is only 14 mb/s when it was 60 mb/s on XP Pro
Does anyone know what driver I might have installed that I shouldn't have or need to install?
This is a Asus P5K Deluxe P35 chipset board.
I installed a second SATA drive in my system, but Vista does not recognize it. When I look in the Control Panel, Device Manager, Disk Drives, it shows the two drives. I also see both drives if I enter the BIOS settings. Windows Explorer does shows only the original drive. The BIOS setting for the SATA drives is AHCI Do I need to format it? if so, where do I go to format it?
View 4 Replies View RelatedAs the topic states, I go into disk management, I see the 500gb drive (listed as drive 0) but when I try to format it, it errors after approx 3 minutes and tells me the disk management console view is not up to date. I installed the SATA raid drivers because those were the only drivers that had sata in the name on my motherboards website or install disc, ABIT IP-35 is the motherboard.
I did have it working once, but Vista kept asking for new drivers for new hardware on an unknown device, so I moved the Drive down one space and installed the sata raid drivers, now it doesnt let me USE the 500gb. Would maybe moving the drive back to the original space work? Or am I doing something completely wrong?
I installed SP1 and all of a sudden when my machine wakes from sleep - my SATA drive disappears. Why is this?
I have enabld AHCI in BIOS and it worked great
I did NOT install Intel's Matrix driver
I have an Intel DP35DP Mother board
I have Vista Ultimate
I have an IDE drive as my primary/boot drive
I have two SATA drives. One is a SATA/300 and has no issues (so far). The one with issues is a Maxtor 250GB SATA/150 drive. IT DID not have any issue before SP!.
Using Vista, when i try to install it, it cant detect the hard drive. I proceed to scan for it and inserted my motherboard drive and it still cant find it. I go into bios and i find that SATA 1-4 shows no hard drive but it is clearly connected :/ The IDE Optical Drive works fine though.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI have just bought a Sata/Ide to usb converter, but when I plug my harddrive into the usb port of any computer (vista or xp) it beeps and installs the Drivers and even adds the little safely remove hardware icon down in the system tray. but I can't find the hardrive in my computer or in administrative tools. I have tried an IDE hardrive,a 2.5 inch sata hardrive and a cdrom drive, why is it not working. The Adapter is Brand New, I have only just opened it.
View 6 Replies View RelatedSince installing Vista SP1 windows denies access to my second SATA HDD. saying: Location is not available. : is not accessible. The device is not connected. The drive was working great until SP1 install rebooted the system.
View 7 Replies View RelatedMy present motherboard has 2 internal SATA connections which I use for my C and D drives, I wish to add another one for a new DVD player,Can this be accomplished by installing a special PCI card in a spare slot of my MB? What make do you recommend?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a new pc w/ vista, 2 sata hard drives. Everything was fine, then a
week later the slave drive disappeared. The BIOS recognizes the drive, but
Vista doesn't. I've seen enough threads on here w/ no resolution. System
restore is not an answer.
I run Vista Home Premium on a self build computer with an Asus P5B Delux motherboard. It has an e SATA socket and I recently bought a Caddy for an External Drive to use as a back up with Windows Live OneCare. The drive is a 320G Seagate SATA2 ST3320620AS identical to the internal drive in my computer and the Caddy has eSATA and USB2 sockets. Everthing works fine if I connect via USB2 but the external drive is not recognised when I connect with eSATA. It may not make a lot of difference in practice but I would still like to be able to use eSATA. Does anyone know why the e Sata drive isn't recognised? Is this a Vista problem or perhaps there is a setting that needs adjusting?
View 9 Replies View Relatedi have an issue with my 3rd sata drive only transfering files at most 11.3mb/s. now my 2nd drive will obtain upto 66mb/s. so i'm wondering what todo?
View 6 Replies View Related2 Optical drive using a single flat ribbon primary/slave setup connected to the secondary IDE connectors black 2 SATA connectors Supports: Not in used but enabled by default in bios. should i disable this since it's not use. I'm thinking of getting a SATA harddrive since the price for both PATA/SATA is the same now but i want to find out how to configure a SATA harddrive. Can i use a SATA/300 Harddrive in SATA 150 connectors?
I have two optical drive connected on a single flat ribbon DVD-RW drive as primary and CD drive as secondary. the flat ribbon is connected in the secondary IDE connector in motherboard. Once i upgrade my harddrive to SATA do i remove the optical drive flat ribbon and place it to the primary IDE. Now both optical drive is connected on different IDE connector. So basically i have this setup harddrive connected to SATA connector, DVD-RW Drive connected to primary IDE connector, CD-drive connected to secondary IDE connector. is this the right setup or do i just leave the optical drive in the same connections.
I have a Gigabyte board with an AMD quad core, 2GB memory, nothing special. Latest BIOS. I loaded Vista on a fresh SATA II drive, and the performance was terrible. (All tests use the same 850MB AVI file, copied from various locations)
Copy from NAS to C: drive
SATA - 3GB/s
IDE - 10GB/s
Copy from C: drive to D: drive
SATA - 4GB/s
IDE - 22GB/s
Copy from C: drive to USB 2.0 external drive
SATA - 16GB/s
Something really weird is going on. These are fresh installs, right out of the box. No drivers, no patches. This all started because my fully configured system was so slow. I thought it might be SW related and wiped the drive clean.
just changed motherboard to k8n sli platinum but now i cannot use my sata HDD , vista just wont boot when the disk is connected. it just keep on going forever in the boot up screen. but in linux , bart pe and other free dos program, it works just fine. i tried to formate it in all of these OS but still no way to boot in vista, i even cant boot from the vista disk with the HDD connected.
NOTE: i juse an IDE HDD to run my system, so the sata disk is just a storage HDD. if i leave the sata disk without any partition or format ,i can boot up in vista. but when i go to disk manager in vista and trie to formate it in vista, it just freez the program and i got to close the disk manager. but vista still work, next time i restart its back to the same , just staying forever on the boot up screen.
Ok this is really starting to irritate me i am beginning to remeber why i always use ASUS boards! Anyway i am up and running but on a crappy 20G Maxtor b/c my BIOS won't recognize the SATA drive. I have the SATA controller enabled and i have tried all 4 connectors with no luck. Updated BIOS still no luck. Windows won't see it either. Tried installing the Nvidia drivers of the support disk did not think that work an well it didn't. Actually i'm sure it's the stupid Nvidia chipset but i updated it and still no SATA action.I have never seen a modern board that did not recognize SATA drives automatically i have tried 2 different drives a working Samsung and the new EXCELSTORE/Hitachi and in tandem as well.On a lighter note i already have her OC'ed at 2.5Mhz on a whole 512 MB of RAM........One of my sticks was DOA teach me not to buy RAM i am not familiar with.AMD Opteron 1212 Dual core/ASRock ALiveNF6G with a Nvidia 6100/nForce430 chipset.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have a wierd issue with Vista. At the moment I have 3 hard drives and one DVD That I am trying to use. Sometimes Vista actually reads the drive and I was able to format and save items to the number 3 500GB drive but when I reboot Vista forgets it. There is always an item in device manager that says unknown device on volume manager and no matter what I do it will not install drivers for this. Does Vista have a problem with high GB drives or with more than 2 hard drives? Would seem odd especially since I've had more on older versions and I do have a 100% genuine ultimate version.
Any time I try to do anything in Disk management it says the information is out of date and will not go any further. I've tried multiple ways of getting the drive to install but no matter what I do it's a roll of the dice if Windows will recognise it or not. My hard drive setup is Seagate 320 GB for C(Windows), 400GB for programs and a 500GB Maxtor That I'm trying to install mainly as a backup. I'm running a 3.4 dual core Intel CPU with 4GB of ram and crossfire enabled Video cards. I've tried diffrent controllers as I have 2 diffrent SATA onbard controllers and even tried a 3rd pci controller.
I am having problems trying to figure how to get vista on a 400g SATA drive. I have tried with both 32 and 64. When I boot from the disk and do a custom install.. the drive just is not there. So I gave up on that and plugged in a smaller IDE drive and of course Vista installs no problem and guess what.. I can now use my Large Sata. Problem is that Vista runs extremly slow on the IDE. how I can move Vista to the SATA drive or at least do a fresh install to it, then I could transfer my settings.
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