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 RepliesI've just bought an Optiarc AD-7170S Sata DVD burner. The problem is, it isn't recognized by Vista. I'm running Vista Ultimate x64. I have a Phenom 9550 Quad, 4 GB DDR2-800, and a Gigabte MA78GM-S2H motherboard. I've tried to download SATA/RAID controller drivers from the Gigabyte site, but Vista doesn't seem to be able to install them, or to properly download them for that matter. I've tried emulating IDE in my BIOS, but that failed too.
I am Using Vista Ultimate 64. I would like to tranfer my entire drive incuding all files and the Operating system From my current IDE HDD to a new SATA Drive of the sames size (500 Gig) I need the IDE Drive for an older computer ( The 40 Gig IBM Deathstar still functions great, but all programs seem more bloated these Days)
Anyway I went to Administrative Tools and Formated the New Drive NFTS with no Drive Letter. But I cannot get it recognized as a transfer device when I go to system backup. Can I use 'C' on the second and soon to be only drive? If I have to use E or F for now can I change it back later. would that affect the file system? I intend to Low level Format the IDE and try cloning the old machine's XP Drive (32 bit) to it in the second place.
A few days back I had posted about an eSATA data drive I had been using with XP not being readable with Vista or Win7. I removed the drive from the enclosure and tried another SATA drive. (both drives are made by Western Digital). the second drive was removed from a Win2k machine when it started developing bad clusters. Vista and Win7 could read that with no problem. so at least I now know the problem is not due to the enclosure itself
Also can conclude that the problem has nothing to do with Win7 not being able to read older versions of NTFS. (Reads a win2k drive with no problems) and for any who had missed the previous post:
Win7 and Vista can run CHKDSK on the drive and read it find
....and find *no* problems
but disc management sees the drive as "RAW"
trying to read the drive from Windows Explorer gives me the error message that the drive is not formatted or the file system is corrupt
I have an MSI K9NSLI Platinum motherboard with a brand new Seagate ST3250410AS 250GB SATA drive attached as the third master drive. The primary master has an old school ATAPI DVDRW. Keep in mind there is no way I can change a setting in the BIOS (or I don't know how to do it) so that the SATA device is the primary master drive, so these are permanent settings; the primary master and slave drives connect to the IDE connector on my mobo. Now, I?ve tried and tried and tried, but I can?t do a clean install nor an upgrade of Windows Vista Home Premium x86 (from DVD) on that SATA drive when it is hooked up alone (as the third master drive)...........
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have an MSI K9NSLI Platinum motherboard with a brand new Seagate ST3250410AS 250GB SATA drive attached as the third master drive. The primary master has an old school ATAPI DVDRW. Keep in mind there is no way I can change a setting in the BIOS (or I don't know how to do it) so that the SATA device is the primary master drive, so these are permanent settings; the primary master and slave drives connect to the IDE connector on my mobo. Now, I?ve tried and tried and tried, but I can?t do a clean install nor an upgrade of Windows Vista Home Premium x86 (from DVD) on that SATA drive when it is hooked up alone (as the third master drive).
But here?s the kicker. If I plug in my old regular ATA IDE drive as the primary master drive, the DVDRW as the primary slave, and leave the SATA drive as the third master drive, I can install Vista with no problems onto the SATA drive. I just have to leave my old regular ATA IDE drive plugged in as the primary master. If I try to disconnect my old regular ATA IDE drive but leave the SATA drive plugged in by itself, Windows
Vista won?t boot.
What is the deal here? How come I can have the SATA by itself as the third master and install WINDOWS XP with no problems and have a workable system, but VISTA doesn?t install. I just paid over $250 for Vista and I have to use this kind of setup to get Windows Vista to work on a SATA drive by itself? This is lame. I want to take that old IDE hard drive out of the box.
Here are my install screens:
First screen: ?Windows is loading files.? bar goes to 100% and the screen advances
Second screen: Black screen with moving green bar and Copyright Microsoft Corporation on bottom. The green bar just keeps moving on forever and doesn?t go to the next screen (which would be the colorful ?Install Windows? dialog box where you choose the language, time/currency, and keyboard, etc.)
Right now i am booting off of an 80gb IDE hard drive but i want to clone the drive onto a 150gb sata drive and make the sata drive my boot drive. I have used Acronis True Image to clone the hard drive. I restarted and everything copied over in DOS successfully but then i tried to boot off of the sata drive and everything seemed to work out fine.. Vista load bar showed up, i was able to enter my password to log in and then it said preparing desktop like it was the first time i installed vista. It was stuck on that screen for a few mins and then a blank blue screen just came up. it seemed like it was the default background for Windows 2000 or something like that and it just stayed there. So now i'm back to booting off of the IDE drive...
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View 7 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 have an Ultra ATA 100 drive that will not install in BIOS or Vista 32 ultimate OS. I have support on my motherboard for 66/100/133 pata (as well as sata II). I have all dated drivers for the motherboard. I'm using VIA's Hyperion Pro drivers. I think my problem is setting jumpers in the drive. I've tried the drive on both primary master and slave, and secondary primary and slave buses. I've also tried the drive in combinations of 2 HDD and 1 HDD, 1 dvd rom. I've set the jumper to cable select, master, and no jumper with no results. However, the drive works in an AMD box running XP 32. The HDD it is not working in is Vista 32 sp1 ultimate. As it is now i have the HDD on the same secondary bus as my dvd rom. The HDD is set to master, and not showing up anywhere. The drive is a Maxtor 40gb.
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View 8 Replies View Relatedmy dvd drive isnt showing up in "my computer" or in my boot list in bios ..ive tried the old trick what i had to do with xp alot where in the reg edit you delet lower and upper case entries but theres no l;ower case entrie...i cant see it in device manager niether but i was wondering if this was related in device manger "IDE ATA/ATAPIcontroller------then ATA Chanel 01 has explamation mark next to it is this related? edit- also everythings plugged in correctly dvd drive opens and shuts but totally not recognized by pc but no lowerfilter , i deleted the higher filter or could it be a certain service isnt running .heres a list of services running??
View 4 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 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!.
I just installed an esata (Silicon Image SiI 3512 SATALink Controller) Its recognized by vista but I don't see the drive. Do I need to attach a cable fromthe card to the esata port. I have a Dell 8400, no esata port on motherboard.
View 7 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?
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View 6 Replies View RelatedI 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.
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.
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View 6 Replies View RelatedDoes anyone have experience using a solid state disk as Vista boot drive? From what I've been reading an SATA SSD boots much faster than the fastest spinning disk and is clearly much more reliable. The 32GB SSD's are not that expensive now and I'm thinking a system with an SSD boot drive and reasonably fast hard drive for swap, temp, logs, etc. might be a stellar performer. There are some caveats with SSD's though: they have slow write speeds so you need to disable/relocate as much write activity as possible. Also, SSD's have a finite number of write cycles they can perform, but with moving most of the write activity to a HD their lifetime seems to exceed even the best mechanical drive.
View 4 Replies View Relatedive just got a new machine running ultimate x64, the main hard drive is a sata drive no problems with this. ive also got a samsung hd400ld ata (400 gb). ive put this in the machine and reformatted it (ntfs) its done this ok but now its showing one partition and its saying that its only 31.50 gb, i would epect to lose some space but not 360gb.
View 4 Replies View RelatedMy new PC (with Vista Home Premium 32-bit) has SATA connectors on the motherboard. Two were already in use (hard drive and DVD drive) and two were open. I added a second hard drive, and plugged the cable into the SATA connector beside the primary drive. When I put a second hard drive in a PC with IDE/ATA connectors, I always keep them on separate cables/connectors for maximum transfer speed between the two hard drives. My question is does it make any difference with SATA which connector you use?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI currently have a SATA drive in my desktop. I desire to add a second SATA drive to increase storage space. In reading about the drives many places speak of the need for special SATA cables. I have not pulled the case yet on my computer but, with older computers, there have always been extra connectors on the ribbon and power cable to connect to additional drives. My basic question is if I purchase a "bare" drive, do I need some sort of cables to connect it as a second drive in my computer??
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View 7 Replies View RelatedA complete computer backup (80 GB hard drive running Vista Ultimate) was done to an external USB (Maxtor 500GB). To do a complete restore, is there a way to have the USB drive recognized as a boot up device or does this type of restore have to be done through DVD?
View 4 Replies View RelatedIssue: Its seen that computer having a samsung hard drive of 320 GB and 500 GB will give black screen with a cursor at the top left corner and it wont boot.
The reason behind this is these hard drives contains a scanner inside them which periodically scans the hard drive to check for error and tries to recover them.
Resolution: Enter the Boot device menu(By pressing the F12 or F9 key on the manufacturer logo).
Change the Boot Device
Select HARD DRIVE as the 1st boot priority and press enter. The system may or may not boot...
i have tried everything said in this thread & i still cant initialize the HDD. i get this error:- This request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.
i really need to get access to my drive as it has important files i really need
I am having trouble getting Vista to recognize the IDE hard drive I am trying to add. I have Vista Home Basic running off of my SATA HD and want to add IDE as extra storage. I have it all hooked up, IDE hard drive is set to master on same controller as my DVD drive, but windows isn't recognizing the HD properly, it recognizes it as a new drive, but it is coming up as a floppy drive, anyone have any idea how to remedy this? Will be watching thread for next 20 mins or so, will keep up on replies and supply additional info if needed.
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