New Hd Vista Problem
ok guys and galls ive got a new problem and one i havent seen shared in the circuits yet. i own 2hard drives and both worked fine and dandy in xp but then i installed vista and it never registered my second hard drive in My Computer yet it does see it in Device Manager & the bios. now this is an amazingly fast and common hard drive (the WD 74gb 10,000rpm below)
Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300GB 7200RPM 16MB ATA-133 EIDE OEM
Western Digital Raptor 74GB SATA 10000RPM 8MB 4.5MS
SO!! ..can anyone tell me what i can do in vista to see this hd again? or what i should be looking for with my cables inside? or anything? im fairly affluent in hardware and software but kinda only enough to be able to play bad ass games. i built this machine below by myself so if i need to dig inside to check/change something i can. i need it help asap! im going back to xp cuz im tired of games taking too much effort just to play them in vista :'(
Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300GB 7200RPM 16MB ATA-133 EIDE OEM
Western Digital Raptor 74GB SATA 10000RPM 8MB 4.5MS
SO!! ..can anyone tell me what i can do in vista to see this hd again? or what i should be looking for with my cables inside? or anything? im fairly affluent in hardware and software but kinda only enough to be able to play bad ass games. i built this machine below by myself so if i need to dig inside to check/change something i can. i need it help asap! im going back to xp cuz im tired of games taking too much effort just to play them in vista :'(
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edit. whoops. i can't read. you say it's seen in the device manager.
does it show up in drive management?
I am looking into the issue to see if it is with the WD Raptor drive. I have one that I will test out.
well my mobo is in my sig its a SUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe ATX S939 SLI X16 DDR 2PCI-E16 and yes its connected to my mobo directly. i need like details of what to look for and where.
and to sledge:
are you saying u have the WD raptors aswell and they dont work in ur vista?
I am saying I have a drive and will see if it works as a 2nd drive in vista...
The top result should be "create and format hd partitions". Click it to open disk management. Does it show up there, and what does disk management say about it?
i'm pretty sure this is the driver you'd want, directly from Si's site:
http://www.siliconimage.com/docs/3132-vista-x86-logo-1.0.19.0.zip
Disk o
Basic
69.25GB 69.25GB
Online Unallocated
it should be 74gb so idk whats up with that maybe i left something on it hmm. it does NOT show up in the top section where theres Volume. Layout. Type. File System. Status. etc. the above is from the loswe half of the Disk Management page.
what now?
>1.new simple volume... then theres a wizard.
thanks for your help i havent gone through vista as much as i have xp and well like a good woman i prefer to like everything i know about her before i go pokin around under her outfit. back to xp for me! after i tranfer my files thx again!