LostArtofRolando
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« on: Feb 19, 2007, 12:14 PM » |
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So I picked up Vista Home Premium (the full version) yesterday and decided to install it on my spare hard drive today. I installed it, and initially it didn't recognize my Creative Soundcard. Creative's got a new driver up and running though, so after I downloaded it directly from them it's all good.
However, it doesn't recognize my PRIMARY hard drive, my Western Digital SATA 250gb. Well, that's not quite true... it recognizes the drive in the Device Manager, says it's functioning normally, but I can't pull it up in My Computer or anything else to Explore the drive. I've got 238 gb of info on it that I'm not fond of losing, so for now I'm sticking to XP til I get the issue resolved. Anybody have any ideas besides Microsoft sucks ass and all those obligatory responses?
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« Reply #1 on: Feb 19, 2007, 12:17 PM » |
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see if you can map to it.
For example: \\localhost\X$ where X is your olddrive.
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LostArtofRolando
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« Reply #2 on: Feb 19, 2007, 12:47 PM » |
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X giving it a name? It sees the device, but it has no path to it, therefore no C:, D:, etc attached anywhere.
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« Reply #3 on: Feb 19, 2007, 12:48 PM » |
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It wouldn't be recognized in Device Manager if there was a problem with jumper settings, right?
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« Reply #4 on: Feb 19, 2007, 12:48 PM » |
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What if you go into Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Disk Management? anything there at all?
Correct me if I'm wrong, Knack, but is it possible that his other drive could be trying to identify itself as C: when it needs to be set as D or E or something on the Vista install?
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LostArtofRolando
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« Reply #5 on: Feb 19, 2007, 01:11 PM » |
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That could be the problem as the IDE drive is set to primary IDE and the SATA drive is set as primary SATA... don't know how to resolve that one though.
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« Reply #6 on: Feb 19, 2007, 01:46 PM » |
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Try to set the IDE drive to slave with the jumpers (that one has XP and not Vista, right?). I haven't been able to mess around with Vista and multiple drives, but I think its worth a try.
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LostArtofRolando
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« Reply #7 on: Feb 19, 2007, 02:35 PM » |
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The IDE actually is the one with Vista on it right now. I didn't want to fuddle up my SATA drive with it yet. I switched the IDE to slave, but no-go, didn't change Vista's ability to do anything with the SATA.
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« Reply #8 on: Feb 19, 2007, 02:56 PM » |
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Yea, that might have worked if XP was on the IDE.
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« Reply #9 on: Feb 19, 2007, 06:38 PM » |
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John's right, it could be trying to map 2 drives with the same drive letter. Make sure if you have a cd/dvd that its disconencted.
Also, make the ide drive a slave and see what happens. Remember, both your SATA and IDE drives have an MBR and are labeled as active primary partitions.
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« Reply #10 on: Feb 19, 2007, 06:59 PM » |
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I'm not sure how vista works, but look for the disk management. In XP/2000 it's under control panel/administrative tools/computer management/disk management.
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« Reply #11 on: Feb 19, 2007, 11:15 PM » |
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Yeah, I've tried all that thus far.
It's Disk Management in Vista too, and it won't let me do anything with the SATA drive in it except delete, which deletes everything off the partition. It shows up in the Disk Management area, but not anywhere else.
EDIT: I've also loaded all the newest drivers for the NForce 4 series chipset too, which supposedly updated the SATA controllers, to no avail.
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« Reply #12 on: Feb 20, 2007, 04:49 PM » |
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Does it even recognize the file system? It should say "NTFS", "FAT32" or whatever it's formatted as. When you right-click, "Change drive letter and path..." is greyed out?
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« Reply #13 on: Feb 20, 2007, 06:12 PM » |
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Yup to all that.
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« Reply #14 on: Feb 25, 2007, 11:29 AM » |
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So, it's showing partitions, but not assigning a drive letter?
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« Reply #15 on: Feb 25, 2007, 11:33 AM » |
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Exactly.
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« Reply #16 on: Feb 25, 2007, 11:37 AM » |
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Most commonly, Norton GoBack caused that, but since this is a new Vista install, that kinda gets ruled out, heh.
Interesting question... if you boot from an XP or Vista CD to their recovery console, I'm curious to see if there's a drive letter assigned. If not, then hrm :s
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