Sata/Ide To Usb Hardrive Not Recognised
Feb 6, 2009
I 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.
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Sep 16, 2008
I installed vista 64bit today on a sata harive in my new computer. Now in my old computer i had a 300gb IDE hardrive and i installed this in the new system and it is recognised in vista but says i cant use it before i format it...However i cant do this becasue i have so much data on it...Is there anyway to view it without formatting it?
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Mar 24, 2009
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.
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Mar 26, 2008
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?
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Jan 19, 2009
can i disable the raid sata and use it like ordinary sata for optical drive in the intel D975XBX2?
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Apr 27, 2009
im running vista home premium and Ive been trying to transfer all my old files and pics from a external hardrive which is hitachi ide that was out of my old laptop running xp
when i plug it in through the usb and look at my computer its not recognizing it but when i look in storage in computer management at the botton it says unknown disc not initialized so i am unable to browse the hardrive.
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Nov 22, 2008
I was reading how to format my HP computer and it says "Disconnect all connected devices (such as the Personal Media Drive, USB drives, printer, and fax), remove media from drives, and remove any recently added internal hardware. Do not disconnect the monitor, keyboard, mouse, and power cord." Do I really need to disconnect anything I recently put into my computer to upgrade it. This step they call for seems useless?
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Feb 26, 2009
I had recent problems with my computer, so I was forced to do a full re-install of vista. I rebooted my computer, booted up the vista home premium x64 cd, and when I got to the screen where I had to choose a hard drive to install vista on, I ran into a problem. First, I tried to format the drive, wanting a clean restart, and got an error saying vista could not format the partition on disk 0( I have 1 hardrive with no partitions) The drive was cleared though, it updated the screen saying that it had 1000gb/1000gb free. I figured all was well. So I continued and tried to install vista and got an error saying that "Windows could not format a partition on disk 0. The error occured while preparing the partition slected for installation". Setup then immediatly stopped.
I tired forming new partitions, deleting the partitions, but nothing helped. I tried the load drivers option at the hardrive select screen and tried every disc that came with my computer, but it kept saying it cant find the driver. I read on the microsoft website that I might need to provide the correct drivers for the hard disk controller. But I cant find it. I have a hitachi Ultrastar A7K1000 *SATA* hardrive model no HUA721010KLA330. I checked their website and it says they are not offering drivers anymore. I now have a completely empty hardrive and I cant install vista.
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Mar 23, 2008
I am running Vista Home Premium, Academic, and it will not recognise my DVD drives. The drivers are loaded but I cannot run any disks from them and they do not show on?
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Feb 7, 2009
i am a novice at this and would apreciate any advise you could give,i have a hp vista home premium 32 bit pc.i backed up my files onto an external hardrive as i have read was the proper thing to do.i think one of my downloads was infected with a trojan horse so i tried a system restore,that did not help,so i did a system recovery back to factory settings i would now like to install my files from the external hardrive but i dont know where to begin as i understand when they get backed up on the hardrive they are in a compressed state
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May 10, 2009
I did a system "complete pc back up" throught the "Back up status and configuration" program that comes with vista. This saved the items to my external hard drive but using the restore feature I can not do a system restore from these files. I can find the external harddrive, it just can not access the files on the drive.
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Jun 5, 2008
I have 2 powered USB 2 hubs connected to my vista PC - neither are recognised - i.e. if i plug my printer/mp4 player/camera etc into the hubs my Pc does not realise they're there. There are 2 ports on the front of the PC and 3 at the back - it makes no difference where I plug the hubs in, they are not recognised.
If i plug my printer/mp4 player/camera etc directly into 1 of the USB ports on the PC they are recognised.
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Mar 23, 2008
i have Vista home premium and its been running fine until i try to use USB devices..it chooses when to recognise them.. i have a 250gb external hard drive that when i plug it into any of the 3 USB ports on my computer nothing happens (no noise to say its connected , no autoplay or the drive name doesnt appear in the computer section) there have been occasions where the device connects as i hear the little sound that is heard when you connect a device but nothing appears so i cant physically access the device. this also happens when i plug in my internet..i plug the ethernet cable and the USB cable from the modem to the laptop (which i have done many times before and have had no problems) and nothing happens i cant get ointo the internet. the only way that i can sometimes connect (incuding this time!) is if i restart the computer. i have done this when trying to connect any of my devices and there is about 1 in 3 chance it connects.
ive gone into the device manager in window and clicked on all of the ports which say they are working fine. but have also plugged the devices into other computers and have no problems. is there any way of scanning the USBports or does anyone know how i can fix this and connect my devices without having to restart time and time again?
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Jun 28, 2008
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Jul 22, 2008
Just took delivery of a Cube247 base unit with Vista Ultimate64-bit installed. I have a freecom 500gb 3.5" External Hard Drive that after plugging it in isn't being recognised.I thought this was a Plug & Play thing but do I need to be looking for some applicable drivers. this as I am quite keen to be backing up to my Freecom as soon as.
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Jun 23, 2008
My desktop PC (new last year) has 4 memory card readers built-in, which worked fine on delivery. Somehow, they are no longer recognised by the machine - and don't show up in Device Manager - even after scanning for new hardware.
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Jun 13, 2008
I made the mistake of plugging my Wacom pen tablet in before installing the driver. Vista recognised the device and installed a default driver which does not work. The Driver installation disk will not install untill the default driver is uninstalled. How do i do this?
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Dec 28, 2009
i 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.
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I 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
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Mar 23, 2008
Decided 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?
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Mar 21, 2009
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.
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Jan 24, 2008
I 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
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This is a Asus P5K Deluxe P35 chipset board.
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Mar 23, 2008
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?
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Mar 23, 2008
As 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?
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May 2, 2008
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!.
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Mar 23, 2008
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.
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Mar 23, 2008
Since 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.
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Jul 8, 2008
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Feb 11, 2009
My 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?
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May 20, 2008
My 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).............
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Mar 23, 2008
I have a new pc w/ vista, 2 sata hard drives. Everything was fine, then a
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restore is not an answer.
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