Windows Vista and SATA Drives
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A recent caller to the 888-PIRILLO line had trouble with his Vista Home Premium machine just after applying Windows updates. It began showing his internal hard drive and DVD write drive as removable devices… such as a SATA drive or USB device.
I had a friend who happens to work at the company that had given us Vista. He was explaining a situation that he had encountered with the same round of updates. His mom’s machine no longer can connect to the Internet… and they cannot figure out why. Keep in mind, this man is a power-user, and very knowledgable with computers.
A chat member asked if they are SATA drives, and they are indeed. It could be a Motherboard issue, picking them up as External instead of Internal drive. He’s using an NVIDIA Nforce chipset. I’ve seen many conflicts between Vista and NVIDIA, unfortunately. This may not be the root of the issue, but that could very well be the case.
If you click on “system” in control panel and click on “device manager”, click on “hardware” tab, you should see your SATA drive under “disk drives”. Click on the sata drive name. Click on the “Policies” tab and you will see two radio buttons that could be ticked. If the top one is ticked, you won’t have the USB icon in the tray because it is set for quick removal. If you have the bottom one ticked, it is set for performance and you will see the USB icon. You can choose whatever you want, just check the disk performance if you choose the top, quick removal button.
Hopefully, this will help fix up the issue for him, and others!
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