windows vista and a SATA hard drive..not discoverable

[stockriderman]

I see and use my drive(it has win xp on it),but when I boot up Vista from my second drive and try to hook up this one as secondary drive,it's not seen in vista. I can see it in Bios.

Any thoughts on this? All drives are sata. This one is Western Digital 250GB.
I am lost here.

It's also not seen in Admin tools/dsk mgmt.

 

[Jibboom]

Are all SATA drives set to IDE mode (in bios)?
Or, in SATA mode - any SATA drivers that you need to load in Vista?

I suppose you might want to check the cables again too, unplug then put back in, worth a try.

That's all I can think of right now.

 

[stockriderman]

Hmm, Why would I put SATA drives in IDE mode. Wouldn't I cripple them? Those are SATA drives,not IDE.

Thanks

 

[stockriderman]

bump

 

[F1shF4t]

Did u install the sata drivers?
And no it will not cripple them, even if it did limit them to max ide speed (ata133, which it doesn't) u would not see any difference.

 

[LostArtofRolando]

I have much the same problem, though 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 doesn't recognize the drive otherwise.