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Home Prem x64 SP2 RC1 wrong HD order
This is the second desktop computer I am putting together and installing
Vista on. I discovered that on both (different motherboards, CPUs, HDs) Vista reverses HD order during install. I know exactly what HD is connected to SATA socket 1 (socket 0 is for SATA DVD writer) and which is connected to socket 3. BIOS shows them correctly as SCSI-0 and SCSI-1. Yet Vista persistently calls the first HD Disk 1 and the second HD Disk 0. Is that intentional or is that sloppy programming? I have no IDE devices. On one desktop both drives are in AHCI mode, on another - first drive is non-RAID and second is RAID 1 consisting of two physical HDs. With the first desktop I blamed it on possibly myself selecting wrong HD during install. But on the second desktop Vista would not allow me to install on Disk 0 claiming that there are no volumes there (I just created one and formatted it, for god's sake) and suggested Disk 1. Then I looked at disk sizes and it became clear that disks are in wrong order. I unplugged the ones in RAID and am installing on the single HD now (which is listed as Disk 0 now, obviously). I'll connect the RAIDed pair later and see if Vista is able to boot. Just wanted to know if it's a "known" issue (Google would not find anything but then may be I'm looking for wrong terms). DarthAcer |
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Home Prem x64 SP2 RC1 wrong HD order
Have you asked in your assigned Vista SP2 Beta newsgroup about this issue ??? That
is where you should be directing the SP2 Beta questions. RC1 is still a Beta and many things can still change in there before it becomes Gold -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. "DarthNeo" wrote in message . 97.131... This is the second desktop computer I am putting together and installing Vista on. I discovered that on both (different motherboards, CPUs, HDs) Vista reverses HD order during install. I know exactly what HD is connected to SATA socket 1 (socket 0 is for SATA DVD writer) and which is connected to socket 3. BIOS shows them correctly as SCSI-0 and SCSI-1. Yet Vista persistently calls the first HD Disk 1 and the second HD Disk 0. Is that intentional or is that sloppy programming? I have no IDE devices. On one desktop both drives are in AHCI mode, on another - first drive is non-RAID and second is RAID 1 consisting of two physical HDs. With the first desktop I blamed it on possibly myself selecting wrong HD during install. But on the second desktop Vista would not allow me to install on Disk 0 claiming that there are no volumes there (I just created one and formatted it, for god's sake) and suggested Disk 1. Then I looked at disk sizes and it became clear that disks are in wrong order. I unplugged the ones in RAID and am installing on the single HD now (which is listed as Disk 0 now, obviously). I'll connect the RAIDed pair later and see if Vista is able to boot. Just wanted to know if it's a "known" issue (Google would not find anything but then may be I'm looking for wrong terms). DarthAcer |
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Home Prem x64 SP2 RC1 wrong HD order
"Peter Foldes" wrote in
: Have you asked in your assigned Vista SP2 Beta newsgroup about this issue ??? That is where you should be directing the SP2 Beta questions. RC1 is still a Beta and many things can still change in there before it becomes Gold Not yet as this did not seem to be a beta issue. I will report it there though since it is indeed a bug: I put back RAID, booted, installed Intel Matrix, which happily reports LITE-ON on port 0, non-RAID on port 1, RAID on ports 2 and 3. Vista's disk manager shows RAID as Disk 0, non-RAID as Disk 1. Clearly a bug. Scanning this group though I noticed that there was at least one instance where someone removed a "wrong disk" (as he explained later) while meaning to remove a secondary disk. Sounds awfully similar to the disk order mixup I am experiencing. Going to beta group. |