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HDD Enclosure Not Working in Vista 64

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chronox

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I was trying to get my NST-360SU to work with Vista 64 on a GA-P35-DS3L today and cannot seem to do so. I had AHCI enabled in the BIOS prior to loading Vista and my HDD is a Seagate 7200.10 with the jumpers set to 1.5Gbit/s mode.

When connected via USB 2.0, Vista prompts me for a "USB to Serial ATA bridge" driver that apparently is not on the Vantec drivers disk. As far as I know, driver-installation is not required with XP/Vista so I'm confused why USB 2.0 isn't working.

After this failed attempt, I went ahead and installed the eSATA bracket and plugged it into a SATA slot on my mobo. I then plugged the enclosure into the bracket via the eSATA cable; however, Vista did not recognize the HDD.

From what I've read, the NST-360SU is supposed to be hot-swappable without rebooting Vista. Has anyone been able to confirm this? What do I have to do to get this enclosure to work (via both USB 2.0 and eSATA)?

Thanks.
 
Try rebooting with the drive on ? it should be available after that. No it is not E-SATA hot swappable unless your mobo has a port/supports this feature. (If they advertise as it is ? they, somewhat misleadingly, mean USB) Get an E-sata card if you want to be able to plug with no restarts. AS to USB check make of your USB-ATA bridge chip and get Vista 64 drivers if available.
 
Thanks for the reply. I finally managed to get it to work with USB. For anyone who might be experiencing the same problem, here's how I did it:

1. After I plugged it in via USB, I let Vista search for drivers automatically; however, it turned up nothing.

2. I clicked on the "Search for drivers manually" option and navigated to the C:/Windows/ folder and clicked "Next". Driver installation then commences.

3. I repeated Step 2 for each device that had to be installed. With the NST-360SU, there should be 3 devices that require driver installation: (1) USB Mass Storage Device, (2) USB Device (your hdd model), and (3) Generic Volume.

4. After the drivers for these 3 devices are installed *manually* you should be good to go!

Here's the link that made me search for drivers manually by pointing the installer to the C:/Windows folder:

Possible corrupted file?

As far as deleting the corrupted infocache.1 file, I have NOT YET done so. Please only do this at your own risk.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this allegedly corrupted file?
 
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