Windows Vista and SATA Drives

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Let me tell you that I have personally never had any of those kinds of troubles with neither the Windows Vista Basic nor Business editions, I don’t know what might the case be with Home Premium, since that’s the case you’re posting on… but as long as I have come to know, Vista does come with integrated support for SATA drives, or at least with the original versions. If you are running on a pirated version of Vista, then that might be the reason why, if not, then it just might be a motherboard problem, just as you mentioned.

Yeah…I’m a bit skeptical about using SATA with Vista, heard of there being lots of BSoD’s from it.

Jack

It is normal for SATA devices to show up in the “Safely Remove Hardware” box. The Safely Remove Hardware window does not indicate that the device or drive in internal or external. It is also this way on a fresh install of Vista.

Jesse

Here is a picture. http://www.putfile.com/pic/7759729

Heh, I had quite a bit of trouble with my drive when Vista was in RC1. Took a while to get it working, not to mention the manufacturer had the wrong drivers on the included CD with the motherboard.

I’ve had numerous issues with both EIDE and SATA external drives with Vista and I have had Vista reset SATA’s to foreign drives which required me to re-import them via the drive manager.

If its SATA II, Hot Plug ability is part of the spec, so that completely makes sense.

If I’m not mistaken, Vista is reporting those drives correctly. SATA can be hot-swapped and you can have an externally connected drive ran over SATA. I know that my motherboard specifically has an extra card-slot bay cover designed to allow SATA pass through and if I wanted to, I could “safely remove” my operating system disk from my system. ;p

i have some thing to say about this, when you go to safely remove hardware it does not say that those are usb but that you can safely remove the drive.

very interesting, thanks for the video chris.

i never really have had any problems with my vista home premium

Pretty frustrating. I still haven’t figured out how to boot my Vista Media Center without the freakin Vista DVD in the DVD drive.

I have, however, migrated my main work and life system to a sweet new Macbook Pro. Halleluyah!

hi chris u want my bebo and my phone number it 07873787483

vista is awsome

what is vista? an operating system seperate from windows xp? or another internet application like internet explorer and mozilla?

dude vista is an os duh lol if u cant find that out dont even try to run it lol

Windows Vista is great. Looking each and every issue you are facing, there is a reason for it. Let’s say, Internet Explorer 7 constantly crashes. By emptying the cache and deleting browsing history, it puts less load on the browser. Using Disk Cleanup greatly improves stability of Internet Explorer 7.

As for sluggishness, there is nothing else to blame except hardware. You need the right hardware to run Vista. Even if you do have a low-end machine, using Vista great improves security.

Thanks.

I’m running XP and it thought my SATA Hard Drive was a removable device

Hahahahaha xD The way Chris takes his head down the second he says “Vista” xD

My SATA drives come up in the “safely remove hardware” list too, I’m running XP. I just think Microsoft are slacking with the whole SATA thing, maybe it’s set up so it’s classed as “removeable” because you can get eSATA and the system can’t actually distinguish between internal or external seeing as technically there isn’t as far as connections go.

you are such a computer nerd

I have vista and my hard disk is also shown as removable device. Its normal and even if you click safely remove, it will not remove them. This is also the same on XP.

My hard drive (I used vista) was SATA and 30GB of storage just POOFED away.

You always lose some space when you format a drive, assuming that’s what you mean. If you have a 160gb drive it’ll typically be 150gb when formatted, it’ just the way binary works.

No, no format. Just, lost a ton of space. Did nothing to it. Woke up one day and POOF it’s there. (Excuse me for the overuse of POOF). It was a 110 gig hard drive, and suddenly it told me I was using all of it up (30 gigs gone, another 50 gigs for backup which I couldn’t delete (I found it out after they backed everything up on a new hard drive, the “invisible” file was just SITTING there. And I was genuinely using 30 gigs). NOT a format issue.

Odd, sounds like it partitioned itself without adding a file system so it can be used. I’ve seen it happen before but I did it myself by mistake and not the comp doing an “oh I’ll do it for fun without being told!” thing.

Computer guy who replaced the hard drive said it happens to one third of the hard drives. I kind of doubt that… Hard drive is still usable (gonna convert it into an external hard drive) it’s just that I would like to have a ton of memory.

First make sure that it is pluged in and the cables are in right! And then get access to an account with admin rights
Go to administrative tools and go to computer management. Goto storage , Disk management. Then on the bottom find your disk and say repartition it. or do what you want but at the end you need to right click on it and say Change drive letter and path and give it a letter… then goto windows explorer (not internet explorer) and it should be in there

Well the drive is sitting on my desk, I am running XP of another hard drive that my computer tech guy put in for me. It’s great now, no probs. But I am gonna hook it up as an external drive (once my cables get here), if it still has the problem I will follow your advice. Thanks!

I just get this dell inspiron 531 with windows vista home premium, all the plugs for hard drive or dvd drive are sata even for the power. I installed a sata dvd drive and it is not recognized help!!!!

Does this guy actually know what he’s talking about? o0

I don’t think he does. (the caller)

try plugging it into another sata port on you motherboard.

I’ve never heard of this before – I have Vista installed on multiple Dell machines, as well as boxes with nforce motherboards. Once he applies SP1 that might fix it.

this never happened to me….

I just bought a SATA external drive and I’m using vista. The computer won’t recognize the drive but it went through the motions of installing the drivers for it and it shows up in the taskbar to safely remove the USB hardware.

Is there a fix for this? How can I get around this?

i had the same problem

Chris always knows what he is talking about lol

Dotcomboy11

please…my laptop have are problem.can’t setup windows xp cause before i’m install vista windows.now i want to repair my laptop.please explain to me..ok