Vista64 Help

[imported_Scratch]

Please note: My post #30 should read simply Write, not write protection. Fixed.
This morning I am able to access all drives in my log on, administrator slot. What did i do? Nothing! Beginning to think that Vista Isn't broken, just a little retarded.
All drives were formatted with Vista and went smoothly. Only anomoly was that when I went in to check everything later, two of the drives were showing up as unformatted. Also Vista wants to use its own drive letters and would not accept any changes.
Not sure what you mean by basic drives.
As an aside: I'm now glad I set up so many drives. Vista takes its sweet time to defrag.
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[ViRGE]

By any chance is your drive hooked up to a JMicron driver controller?

 

[imported_Scratch]

Sorry, don't know what a JMicron controller is, or why I might want one. ???

 

[ViRGE]

JMicron makes a series of drive controllers that are commonly integrated on to motherboards to add more SATA ports along with an IDE port. There is a long-standing bug with their drivers that causes disks to randomly mount as write-protected on boot. Skimming through your thread you issue seems very similar to the problems with JMicron's controllers, which is why I asked. Do you know what motherboard you have?

 

[imported_Scratch]

Yes...I do remember reading something about that in one of the forums.
Board is a Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R. Nicest board I ever had. If it has that bug, I wonder if Gigabyte has issued a fix?
Oh...The reason I'm able to now write on the drives is that I forgot to turn the UAC back on. Guess I should leave it off till I find out whats going on.
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[imported_Scratch]

Virge...
You may have just saved my bacon here. (and Maudibs sanity)
My HDs were hooked into the two SATA/PATA sockets, so I switched them to the last two SATA only sockets. Everything seems to be OK. I have to check it out further in the AM. (Mom wants her dinner) But I'll bet at this point that was the problem.
Many thanks for showing up.:thumbsup:
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[Muadib]

Yes, but ViRGE says that there is an issue with the JMicron controller, so you should also check to see if you have one with that board.

I was just backing up the D: drive of my laptop, so I can format it. I'll hold off for now.

 

[imported_Scratch]

Greetings Maudib.
I believe the solution (in my case) is to not use the Sata/Pata connection on the board or to disable Pata in the bios. I'm checking further, but I think I'm good to go.
Virge, you want to weigh in?
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[ViRGE]

I'm not sure there's anything left for me to say.

 

[Muadib]

Sounds like you are good then.

 

[imported_Scratch]

Hi Maudib.
I also downloaded the latest Jmicron drivers and kicked a couple of things in bios. So far everything seems ok. Obviously I'm not the first one to run into this problem.
Thanks a lot for your help. :thumbsup:
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