A 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?
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I am trying a new install on a new machine. I have 2 WD 250 GB drives (not in RAID config). When VISTA installs it tells me the first drive is not recognized as boot drive and won't load. I tried to install on second drive and get a error message about a volume does not meet VISTA criteria (or something like that)and won't install. These are both brand new drives. Both drives are correctly identified in the BIOS.
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Press F2 to run
Press F11 to boot menu
Auto detecting PRI Master Atapai CDROM.
It then went to reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key. I went into the BIOS to change the boot order and inserted my Vista home premium 32bit. I then got windows is loading in files. After a short while I got the black start up screen with Microsoft Corporation but after a few seconds it just froze. Moments later it went to a blue screen with white writing part of which said the following; A PROBLEM HAS BEEN DETECTED AND WINDOWS HAS BEEN SHUT DOWN TO PREVENT DAMAGE TI YOUR COMPUTER.
I'm troubleshooting a friends computer and can'tseem to get it working.Basically, he's running Vista Home Prem 32bit. He just bought a new Canon MP480 inkjet printer and everytime he plugs it into his laptop he gets the "USB Device Not Recognized". I tested his printer and cable on my laptop (Vista Ultimate 64bit) and it IDs the printer and tries to install just fine. We're both running SP1 and I just did a double check and I we're both fully up-to-date on Windows update.I've tried uninstalling the USB hardware and then doing new install of the Intel chipset drivers.I've tried "forcing" the driver install using "driver update", but Vista just comes back and says "Driver for "unknown device" currently has the best driver confused I've tried draining the laptops power and I've tried a "driver inf cache" delete thing as well.
I have been using a Trust 7 Port USB Hub with Vista SP1, using the built in Vista driver, without issue. However, Vista has suddenly started to report this has 'USB Device Not Recognized'. The hub works with XP and other USB devices work fine when plugged into the same port. I have tried deleting the infcache.1 file as suggested in other threads but no joy.
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View 6 Replies View RelatedI have an Acer travelmate 4230 with Windows vista business installed. All of a sudden for no apparent reason approximately 2 days ago my PC stop recognizing ANY USB device (being the built-in cam, iPod and other USB's) that is being attached to ANY of the ports. I Checked disk for any errors and ran a full system scan for viruses and nothing came up. What can I do to fix this?
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I called Sandisk technial support and they said it was "Vista problem" because the drive works in XP and in a friend's computer also running Vista. Can one delete all USB devices in Vista without doing a complete reload of Vista. Maybe setting all USB paramters back to that after a clean install would help?
Every time I plug in my iPod I get this at the bottom right...When I close out of that I also get this in the middle of my screen...I have restarted my computer and tried different USB ports. Nothing shows up in "Computer" about a removable device.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI installed a 2nd hard drive and Vista found its drivers. The drive is showing up in Device Manager but I can't figure out how to access it. No letter is assigned to it. If I look under 'computer', C is my original drive, D is the recovery drive & E is the DVD/CD drive. No other drives are listed. Device Manager reports the drive is working properly.
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View 7 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.
View 9 Replies View RelatedMy cddvd drive has stopped working and is not recognized on my computer anymore.
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 RelatedI 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 RelatedI 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 put a re-writeable CD in Drive E to record music on it, it was full, was going to delete some of the prior songs, but it's stuck!! Windows pop up saying its working properly, or its in use...its not working, how do i get it out? I've been pushing the button to do it manually, but thats not working either.
View 7 Replies View Relatedmy dvd drive has also gone missing on my vista home 32, im sure its the same type of problem that most people are suffering, worked fine, installed itunes hooked up ipod, download daemon tools etc, then it stopped being recognized, not sure when exactly it all went wrong, but the drive still opens spins does all that but just wont show up in disk mangement, device manager or my computer. I used the MS ART - 320553 registry fix and deleted the filters, but to no avail, anyone have any other solutions?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have a new system with the new Core i7 920 CPU (don't know if this matters :p) and with 6 GB DDR3 RAM (1333Mhz 6x1BG) running Vista Business SP1 x64. I intend to disable the pagefile completely and to use a dedicated USB Flash Drive for ReadyBoost.
- What size should this USB Flash Drive have? -I read somewhere that it should be a 2.5:1 ratio (in my case 15GB then) for high-end systems. Is that right? - Do I have to configure the device on every Windows Boot again, so ReadyBoost is going to use it?
I dont want to have to reinstal but, my DVD drive disappeared from the device list. I was presented with a message. I followed the instructions as seen. I have system restore but that failed. Im not sure what an ATA Channel 1 is. But I have a feeling its deep inside a cabinet file from the vista instalation disc. Im unable to access my DVD drive.
View 6 Replies View RelatedAttempting a clean install Vista 32 full OS (not an upgrade) on the below rig. Previously loaded XP without trouble. Now the following message.
"A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing. If you have a driver floppy disk, CD, DVD, or a USB flash drive, please insert it now. Note: the Windows installation media is in the CD/DVD drive, you can safely remove it for this step."
I have tried loading XP again and Vista with the same message. Attempting to access the CD unsuccessful.
I have tried disconnecting the LG drive and using the Sony, same error message. LG has no drivers on site stated they are embedded in Vista...
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 ordered a SanDisk 4.0 GB Cruzer Micro USB Flash Drive with my Vostro 400 computer running Windows Vista 32 bit Home Premium Edition. When I inserted the Flash Drive in the USB port Windows asked me to install the driver for the device. There was no software included with the Flash Drive. I checked the box requesting Windows to look for a driver through the Windows Update feature. It came back and said no driver could be found for this device. I then went to the manufacturer's website but they don't have a driver listed for this particular Flash Drive. I called Dell and all they could tell me is that Windows should have recognized the device automatically. how I can get Windows to recognize this device. My brother has the same identical computer and Flash Drive and his installed without a problem
View 8 Replies View RelatedI've had Vista x64 installed for about 2 full months now and I've recently begun having a lot of problems. One being: 187 seconds. What the hell? Before you ask, here are my specs. Lots of fast memory, a fast processor, 7200RPM boot drive (not listed), and ****ing awful performance. What gets me is that the delayed boot time is before I even see the "Welcome" screen.
My current boot time distribution:
1. BIOS does all its fancy stuff very quickly (about 6-7 seconds or so)
2. I get to my boot loader and it defaults to Vista after 5 seconds (dual-booting Vista/Ubuntu).
3. I then see the Vista loading screen (black screen with green loading bar) for about 4-5 seconds................
I'm having a very strange problem with my External Hard Drives (I have 2). What happens is that I am unable to open either of the external Hard Drives in 'Computer' by double clicking them. It just doesn't do anything. But when I right click and select 'Open' it says: "Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item."
EDIT: Forgot to mention that I have checked the security details for the drives and I should be able to access them just fine. But here is where it gets weird. I can right click and select 'Explore' and it will open up like normal and I can browse the folders just fine! I used to be able to access these Hard Drives just fine before, but then they just went like this and I have no idea why. Since it happened to both Hard Drives simultaneously, I figure it is a Vista problem and not related to the specific drives.
Other symptoms are that the icon for the drives no longer shows up in 'Computer', although the name and disk space turn up fine. Also, I've noticed that the drives are operating much slower than usual, nearly a tenth of the normal read/write speed.
I am trying bring-up a new SATA Hard Drive through PCIe to SATA AHCI Host Card. We find that Vista recognized the AHCI Controller and it shows up in the Device Manager. It successfully allocates the memory and IRQ, and says that the Device is working properly. But the HDD is not recognized. When we look at the PCIe analyser, we see that the OS is continuously polling the AHCI Interrupt Status Register (Addr: 0x08). This register is reading 0x0 all the time.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI've upgraded my machine at some point in the last year, where I added a new 500GB drive and moved my C: partition across to it. The previous 250GB drive was left in for additional storage. Just recently (while upgrading my BIOS) I realised that my system was still booting from the 250GB drive even though Windows was on the other disk. There is a fair possibility in the not too distant future that I'll replace the 250GB disk with a larger disk, in which case I won't be able to boot. Is there a safe and reliable way to change it so that the system boots from the 500GB disk?
View 9 Replies View RelatedRight 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...
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have a dual boot system: XP PRO on drive C and Vista Home Premium on drive B. I want to replace my hardrive, and move (or clone) Vista to new drive and be it C drive. Vista is still virgin and not other programs are installed, so changing it location from D to C drive will not influance any applications. I know how to create hard drive image. My question is how to make that new c drive with Vista on it bootable again. Is there any utility I can use?
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