Hi I need some help and i am perplexed by the issue in Windows7x64 Ultimate.
I have a USB hard drive caddy. Install the hard drive ( have tried jumpers on both cable select and master) but Windows7 will not initialize any of the drives.
BIOS sees the drives.
Windows Disk Management sees the drives.
Step by step :
Boot up machine.
Message pops up
Initialize disk.
''You must initialize a disk before Logical Disk Manager can access it.''
Disk 4 has a tick by it.
Use the following Partition style for selected disk :
MBR or GPT(GUID)
I select MBR and have tried GPT (dont uunderstand what the latter is).
Press OK.
Get VIRTUAL DISK MANAGER ''The device is not ready'
Any tips or things I can check please. The data on the disks are from XP 32 if that makes a difference and is the same for SATA or IDE drives.
I have checked in BIOS USB harddrive and as mentioned BIOS and windows is detecting it and I have tried different jumper settings on the HDs Master/slave/secondary.
Have tried several different USB cables and ports same issue.
Checked System Devices only yellow exclamation mark is ''Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface' Driver is upto date as verified. Properties shows this device cannot start, I understand this is to do with IPv6 and is not an issue? Is this relveant to my problem?
Many thanks
M
I have a USB hard drive caddy. Install the hard drive ( have tried jumpers on both cable select and master) but Windows7 will not initialize any of the drives.
BIOS sees the drives.
Windows Disk Management sees the drives.
Step by step :
Boot up machine.
Message pops up
Initialize disk.
''You must initialize a disk before Logical Disk Manager can access it.''
Disk 4 has a tick by it.
Use the following Partition style for selected disk :
MBR or GPT(GUID)
I select MBR and have tried GPT (dont uunderstand what the latter is).
Press OK.
Get VIRTUAL DISK MANAGER ''The device is not ready'
Any tips or things I can check please. The data on the disks are from XP 32 if that makes a difference and is the same for SATA or IDE drives.
I have checked in BIOS USB harddrive and as mentioned BIOS and windows is detecting it and I have tried different jumper settings on the HDs Master/slave/secondary.
Have tried several different USB cables and ports same issue.
Checked System Devices only yellow exclamation mark is ''Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface' Driver is upto date as verified. Properties shows this device cannot start, I understand this is to do with IPv6 and is not an issue? Is this relveant to my problem?
Many thanks
M