Vista

[SpyCatcher]

Just installed Vista for the first time I have several questions I can not figure out and need expert assistance.

2 WD hard drives - raptor and standard

Disk Management:
shows an 11 gig unallocated space that appears to be a partition on the C drive - is this requried?, should vista be reinstalled?

The second WD hard drive does not show in Vista, the bios does detect the HD - how do I fix this?

PS: I need the information on the HD, I can not format the HD

 

[TG2]

"shows an 11 gig unallocated space that appears to be a partition on the C drive"

the C drive cant have unallocated space, you mean the space is on the hard disk and unallocated?
- did you delete the partitions and recreate them during Vista install?

"The second WD hard drive does not show in Vista, the bios does detect the HD"

What type of disk is it ? Sata or Pata?
- If Sata, what ports is it connected to ? Intel, Sis, Via, Sil31xx ?
- If Pata, does the disk have a drive letter assigned to it in disk management?
- what was on the drive and what is it formatted as? Linux, Apple, Fat32, NTFS?

 

[Stan]

I imagine your SATA Raptor isnt showing up? If so, you probably need SATA drivers from your controller vendor.

The unallocated space is space that you didnt partition during setup, or whenever you created the drives. You could make an 11 gig D: drive (or next drive letter), ignore it, or reinstall and make your C: larger (there are utilities that will do this, but I am not sure if any will work with the NTFS vista uses -- i wouldnt try it yet).

 

[SpyCatcher]

I fixed the unallocated 11 gig space by re-sizing the drive this took about 20 seconds to fix.

Vista is installed on the raptor which is the "C" drive, the other is a WG 120 EIDE drive which is not showing up in vista... who would have guessed.

Question: would you recommend WD SATA drivers be installed?