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IDE Controller Not being accessed
Hi there. I have just got ahold of Vista and a whole new comp. Anyways,
everything works fine aside for one minor problem. On my mainboard I only have 1 IDE channel, and unfortunately I need 2 channels, so I got ahold of a pci controller. However Vista does not seem to recognize the HD on the controller, even though my BIOS does. Is there a way to work around this so it recognizes the HD? |
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IDE Controller Not being accessed
does Vista see the HD under Administrative Tools/ computer management/disk
managemnt?? mayb it needs to be formatted?? peter "Avimage" wrote in message ... Hi there. I have just got ahold of Vista and a whole new comp. Anyways, everything works fine aside for one minor problem. On my mainboard I only have 1 IDE channel, and unfortunately I need 2 channels, so I got ahold of a pci controller. However Vista does not seem to recognize the HD on the controller, even though my BIOS does. Is there a way to work around this so it recognizes the HD? |
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IDE Controller Not being accessed
I took a look under device manager when I was more able to think clearly, and
it noted that the drivers were not installed for the RAID device, so I'm now trying to see if I can get ahold of a generic RAID driver for the card to function properly. I'm also gonna try one more method that may work as well, but will involve a little tinkering. All I have to do now is get XP installed, install my drivers, then upgrade to Vista and see if it still works that way. Now I'm having probs actually getting XP onto this drive. I'm thinking I might need to get a new HD since this one isn;t installing properly. "pete" wrote: does Vista see the HD under Administrative Tools/ computer management/disk managemnt?? mayb it needs to be formatted?? peter "Avimage" wrote in message ... Hi there. I have just got ahold of Vista and a whole new comp. Anyways, everything works fine aside for one minor problem. On my mainboard I only have 1 IDE channel, and unfortunately I need 2 channels, so I got ahold of a pci controller. However Vista does not seem to recognize the HD on the controller, even though my BIOS does. Is there a way to work around this so it recognizes the HD? |
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IDE Controller Not being accessed
You realize that One EIDE controller can control 2 HD..??
The PCI EDIE card that you installed should have come with all of the necesary drivers.. If you are trying to set up a RAID you will need to set it up before you install XP what MOBO and addin Card are we talking about?? peter "Avimage" wrote in message ... I took a look under device manager when I was more able to think clearly, and it noted that the drivers were not installed for the RAID device, so I'm now trying to see if I can get ahold of a generic RAID driver for the card to function properly. I'm also gonna try one more method that may work as well, but will involve a little tinkering. All I have to do now is get XP installed, install my drivers, then upgrade to Vista and see if it still works that way. Now I'm having probs actually getting XP onto this drive. I'm thinking I might need to get a new HD since this one isn;t installing properly. "pete" wrote: does Vista see the HD under Administrative Tools/ computer management/disk managemnt?? mayb it needs to be formatted?? peter "Avimage" wrote in message ... Hi there. I have just got ahold of Vista and a whole new comp. Anyways, everything works fine aside for one minor problem. On my mainboard I only have 1 IDE channel, and unfortunately I need 2 channels, so I got ahold of a pci controller. However Vista does not seem to recognize the HD on the controller, even though my BIOS does. Is there a way to work around this so it recognizes the HD? |