Vista + Sata

DragonWoLf · 10 Jan 2008 at 02:16

Can someone tell me what kind of drivers are needed in order to get vista to recognise my sata hd? Its a Maxtor, model unknown atm as it's in my case, wont install into my ide hard drive either >.<

mohbana · 10 Jan 2008 at 02:22

hi, i had the same problem. Just figured it out. There is a tool somewhere is vista called

create and format hard disk partion

search for ha in control panel you'll find it

DragonWoLf · 10 Jan 2008 at 02:24

mohbana said:
hi, i had the same problem. Just figured it out. There is a tool somewhere is vista called

create and format hard disk partion

search for ha in control panel you'll find it

the HD's are blank dude so there nout on it, formatted them both but still nothing, no install, i need to install vista but without the drivers im stuck

Energize · 10 Jan 2008 at 02:31

DragonWoLf said:
Can someone tell me what kind of drivers are needed in order to get vista to recognise my sata hd? Its a Maxtor, model unknown atm as it's in my case, wont install into my ide hard drive either >.<

Try messing with the sata options. When I set sata driving from normal to strong it fixed problems I had with the drive being unrecognised.

Heofz · 10 Jan 2008 at 02:38

DragonWoLf said:
the HD's are blank dude so there nout on it, formatted them both but still nothing, no install, i need to install vista but without the drivers im stuck

am I right in assuming you dont see any drives in the vista installtion? Have you tried loading the SATA drivers from your IP35 Pro cd ?

DragonWoLf · 10 Jan 2008 at 02:50

Energize said:
Try messing with the sata options. When I set sata driving from normal to strong it fixed problems I had with the drive being unrecognised.

I'll try the method

Heofz said:
am I right in assuming you dont see any drives in the vista installtion? Have you tried loading the SATA drivers from your IP35 Pro cd ?

I see the drives, just wont install on them, comes up with an error message saying something, will take a pic in a mo

mohbana · 10 Jan 2008 at 02:53

ah! i got the same error.

You have to install to the primary drive ... for instance when i tried to install to the drive on sata 2 it wouldn't let me ... you to put it on the drive installed on sata 1.

DragonWoLf · 10 Jan 2008 at 02:57

Energize said:
Try messing with the sata options. When I set sata driving from normal to strong it fixed problems I had with the drive being unrecognised.

cant find anything in the bios, where is that?

Heofz · 10 Jan 2008 at 04:22

not sure why you're having problems. I've got exactly the same mobo + CPU configuration (q6600 + ip 35 pro) and I had no problems at all. Though having said that, I'm not running maxtors..... hmm so maybe it *is* that.

That error msg would be handy though.

paradigm · 10 Jan 2008 at 07:55

Should be fine without extra drivers.

What do you have the two Storage adapters set to in the BIOS? IDE, ACHI, or RAID?

Mine works fine set to RAID or IDE (I use RAID, as I have a RAID array), I had issues with ACHI with a single disk though.

turbotoes · 10 Jan 2008 at 09:30

you say you have an ide drive? if that is plugged in, Vista won't let you install to the sata drive, it just wont see it. Perhaps that is the problem.

paradigm · 10 Jan 2008 at 10:01

turbotoes said:
you say you have an ide drive? if that is plugged in, Vista won't let you install to the sata drive, it just wont see it. Perhaps that is the problem.

That's balderdash, Vista will let you install on any drive in the system.

mohbana · 10 Jan 2008 at 12:51

hey mate how did you sort it out

DragonWoLf · 10 Jan 2008 at 13:42

Done it, what I got from one MS page, Shift+F10, and used DISKPART in DOS to un-partition the drive and all aok, vista installed, now thinking of getting the 64bit but not sure if i'll come up with errors! But thanks evryone who replied to my help!