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New Vista Install - Issue with backup Sata Drive

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Nickc19

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So I just did a clean install of Vista tonight. I have 2 Sata drives, my main one with the O/S, and then a 2nd one from my previous install that I use to access older files (not set up in a RAID or anything). I installed Vista with just the primary connected and everything went fine.

After installation was done, I connected the 2nd drive and all was still well - until I installed the Nvidia chipset drivers. Now Vista hangs up and takes forever to fully load, and then even though it shows the 2nd drive, i cant access it. If I disconnect it from the mobo everything is fine again. The 2nd drive is an 80GB Hitachi, I believe only 1.5 Gbit/s.

My board is a P6N-SLI-FI...when installing the chipset drivers I also installed the IDE SataIDE Driver in the file package (nForce 680i SLI/680i LT SLI - Windows Vista 32-Bit, version 15).

Anybody know what the problem may be and if so, how I go about fixing it?
 
Anybody? Still having issues with this.

I'm assuming its related to the drivers since after installing the ones off Nvidia site is when it started. Anyway to get rid of the SATA driver that was installed?
 
nvidia's sataIDE driver has been known to cause problems in xp and vista on certain systems (and its generally recommended that you don't install it), have you tried uninstalling the driver?
 
I haven't, I'll give it a shot. And how exactly do I do that....just find the IDE listing in device manager and roll back the driver or is there a different way to uninstall it?
 
In Add/Remove programs, under the entry

Nvidia Drivers

click the Change/Remove button, and you are presented with checkboxes to remove only certain components. So you should be able to to remove the IDE driver from there.

I have personally never had any issue with it so have installed it every single format (nforce2 and nforce4 chipsets). I did do some very unscientific performance testing, and it seemed a little slower than the MS driver, but this was rough testing, and no SATA drives involved. Just yesterday I got a new SATA drive where I had to slipstream the Nvidia SATA_IDE driver to the XP cd since I didn't have a floppy. I then installed the IDE SW driver with the 6.86 forceware and no problems from doing that, but obviously, YMMV, and more importantly, I'm not running Vista (yet).
 
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