LostArtofRolando
Junior Member
I loaded Vista onto an IDE drive. XP sits on a Western Digital 250 SATA.
My BIOS recognizes the SATA drive and I can see it in Vista's Admin Tools/Disk Management, but it allows me to do nothing more than delete the volume, which would erase all info on the disk. I cannot touch the drive in any way to access the information on it as it does not show up in "Computer (Explorer)".
I tried installing the latest NForce 4 drivers controlling SATA functions but it doesn't appear that Vista actually updated them. All other attempts at driver loading or fussing with the BIOS have failed to include switching the IDE to a slave mode. My SATA drive is already in IDE mode in the BIOS... my Asus A8N5X motherboard doesn't recognize the drive otherwise.
I'd prefer not to have Vista screw me out of using a hard drive.
My BIOS recognizes the SATA drive and I can see it in Vista's Admin Tools/Disk Management, but it allows me to do nothing more than delete the volume, which would erase all info on the disk. I cannot touch the drive in any way to access the information on it as it does not show up in "Computer (Explorer)".
I tried installing the latest NForce 4 drivers controlling SATA functions but it doesn't appear that Vista actually updated them. All other attempts at driver loading or fussing with the BIOS have failed to include switching the IDE to a slave mode. My SATA drive is already in IDE mode in the BIOS... my Asus A8N5X motherboard doesn't recognize the drive otherwise.
I'd prefer not to have Vista screw me out of using a hard drive.
