Comments on: Windows Vista and SATA Drives

By: nibungbiru

nibungbiru — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 14:47:26 +0000

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

By: dotcomboy11

dotcomboy11 — Sun, 25 May 2008 10:00:48 +0000

Chris always knows what he is talking about lol

Dotcomboy11

By: foxxchasser1

foxxchasser1 — Sat, 24 May 2008 21:14:58 +0000

i had the same problem

By: steve

steve — Wed, 14 May 2008 01:04:42 +0000

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?

By: forktreeproducts

forktreeproducts — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:18:15 +0000

this never happened to me….

By: TonayD

TonayD — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:12:14 +0000

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.

By: dtrix92

dtrix92 — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:22:43 +0000

try plugging it into another sata port on you motherboard.

By: dtrix92

dtrix92 — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:21:05 +0000

I don’t think he does. (the caller)

By: reinholder

reinholder — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:37:02 +0000

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

By: fullekin

fullekin — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:46:55 +0000

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!!!!

By: anerisgreat

anerisgreat — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:44:34 +0000

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!

By: computergeek161

computergeek161 — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:53:52 +0000

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

By: anerisgreat

anerisgreat — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:56:04 +0000

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.

By: TalesOfWar

TalesOfWar — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:51:56 +0000

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.

By: anerisgreat

anerisgreat — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:46:57 +0000

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.