Vista and SATA HDD drives

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I've been reading with interest (or is it desperation?) the many posts on
SATA drives and Vista. I had XP installed on a new SATA drive, with a second
SATA which was for backing up and storing multimedia files. I added Vista on
my old IDE drive in a dual boot setup. XP sees the drives fine and so did
Vista until suddenly, Vista has stopped seeing them. I couldn't figure a
change that coincided with it.

Where there is a suggested solution they all involve re inserting the Vista
DVD and then adding the drivers from the "installation media that came wth
the drives". This is my big problem. The drives do not come with any media!
Updating the motherboard BIOS does not solve the problem as I have the latest
version. Does anyone (Hello Microsoft!!) have a real solution to this problem
- enough people seem to be struggling with it!
 
Open up Control Panel/admin.tools/computer management/disc
management...under Vista
and tell us what is showing...........and the descriptions for each drive
peter
 
The SATA drivers are NOT supplied by the drive manufacturer. They are
supplied by the maker of the M/B or the company that designed the chipset
(maybe Silicon Image). Get the ones you need and extract them to a floppy
disk or a USB thumb drive. Then direct the Vista installer to this drive to
install the drivers.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)
 
I don't think Vista is at home with the "old" ATA or PATA type drives, IDE or
CD/DVD.

Trace the path backwards from your non-working drive, try to ID the MB chip
that supports it; then track down the IDE chip Vista driver from the MB
vendor only.

Don't get any drivers from just anywhere. Make one change at a time, be
scientific.
Record your steps, and check your notes from time to time.

Good luck
 
No problem here at all with a mixture of SATA and PATA drives (both HDs and
CDrws/DVDrws).


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