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HDD not recognized
Because it uses the BIOS setting for it while in safe mode.
"S Murder" schreef in bericht ... If it loads no drivers, then how am I able to use my other 2 HDDs? "koze" wrote: Latest chipset drivers for the MB installed? Seems to me the Chipset isn't workin 100% (drivers) and not reporting corrcet to Vista. In safe mode there are no drivers loaded. Ko. "S Murder" schreef in bericht ... I tried that program too, but I'm not sure what to look for. Other helpful info: I just put all my computer stuff into a new case, and got a new CPU fan. Windows started, crashed twice, and I booted into Safe mode. In Safe mode everything worked fine, and when I rebooted into normal mode is when I had these problems. The DVD/CD drive appears like it should in the Device Manager, but not in My Computer and there's also an unknown DVD drive in Device Manager. Both the HDD and DVD/CD drive appear fine in the BIOS. I'm back in Safe Mode, and the problems are still there. "Don" wrote: S Murder wrote: I used the tool, but it doesn't let me export the info to a file, copy and paste the text, and it doesn't even show the time the events happened (only dates). I looked at it, and all it says is that it installed a bunch of Updates and that it failed to install the HDD drivers a bunch of times. Thanks for trying it. The big question is why the driver installation failed. If you're up to a bit more detective work I strongly advise using this great debugging tool: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys...ssmonitor.mspx (The download link is way at the bottom of the page.) It requires no installation. Once you unzip it you can even run it from your Desktop if you want. If I had your problem I would use it to monitor which directories Vista searches while looking for its driver files. It will also tell you which Registry keys are accessed and more, if you want it to. If I could reproduce the bug I probably could have found the answer by now ( "Don" wrote: Please try this: open a command prompt window as administrator and type 'perfmon'. When the window opens click on the icon for Reliability Monitor. Browse around there and see if you can find anything to clue us all in to what's causing this annoying problem. Thanks. |
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HDD not recognized
Then why doesn't it use the BIOS setting for my other HDD and disk drive?
"koze" wrote: Because it uses the BIOS setting for it while in safe mode. "S Murder" schreef in bericht ... If it loads no drivers, then how am I able to use my other 2 HDDs? "koze" wrote: Latest chipset drivers for the MB installed? Seems to me the Chipset isn't workin 100% (drivers) and not reporting corrcet to Vista. In safe mode there are no drivers loaded. Ko. "S Murder" schreef in bericht ... I tried that program too, but I'm not sure what to look for. Other helpful info: I just put all my computer stuff into a new case, and got a new CPU fan. Windows started, crashed twice, and I booted into Safe mode. In Safe mode everything worked fine, and when I rebooted into normal mode is when I had these problems. The DVD/CD drive appears like it should in the Device Manager, but not in My Computer and there's also an unknown DVD drive in Device Manager. Both the HDD and DVD/CD drive appear fine in the BIOS. I'm back in Safe Mode, and the problems are still there. "Don" wrote: S Murder wrote: I used the tool, but it doesn't let me export the info to a file, copy and paste the text, and it doesn't even show the time the events happened (only dates). I looked at it, and all it says is that it installed a bunch of Updates and that it failed to install the HDD drivers a bunch of times. Thanks for trying it. The big question is why the driver installation failed. If you're up to a bit more detective work I strongly advise using this great debugging tool: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys...ssmonitor.mspx (The download link is way at the bottom of the page.) It requires no installation. Once you unzip it you can even run it from your Desktop if you want. If I had your problem I would use it to monitor which directories Vista searches while looking for its driver files. It will also tell you which Registry keys are accessed and more, if you want it to. If I could reproduce the bug I probably could have found the answer by now ( "Don" wrote: Please try this: open a command prompt window as administrator and type 'perfmon'. When the window opens click on the icon for Reliability Monitor. Browse around there and see if you can find anything to clue us all in to what's causing this annoying problem. Thanks. |
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HDD not recognized
S Murder wrote:
Other helpful info: I just put all my computer stuff into a new case, and got a new CPU fan. Windows started, crashed twice... That's a different kettle of fish. Now it sounds like a hardware problem, but more like a loose or dirty connector somewhere. Maybe just reseating any plugs, cables, etc would fix it. The DVD/CD drive appears like it should in the Device Manager, but not in My Computer That sounds like other threads I've seen where using regedit to delete any references to 'upper filters' and 'lower filters' fixes the problem. That seems to be caused by installing and deleting legacy CD/DVD apps which leave these incorrect registry entries behind. and there's also an unknown DVD drive in Device Manager. And if you delete that unknown device and reboot? |
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HDD not recognized
Actually the DVD/CD Rom Drive does appear in My Computer. I'm sure why I
thought it didn't. Unplugging and replugging the cables didn't help at all. "Don" wrote: S Murder wrote: Other helpful info: I just put all my computer stuff into a new case, and got a new CPU fan. Windows started, crashed twice... That's a different kettle of fish. Now it sounds like a hardware problem, but more like a loose or dirty connector somewhere. Maybe just reseating any plugs, cables, etc would fix it. The DVD/CD drive appears like it should in the Device Manager, but not in My Computer That sounds like other threads I've seen where using regedit to delete any references to 'upper filters' and 'lower filters' fixes the problem. That seems to be caused by installing and deleting legacy CD/DVD apps which leave these incorrect registry entries behind. and there's also an unknown DVD drive in Device Manager. And if you delete that unknown device and reboot? |
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HDD not recognized
I can't roll back it's drivers because it doesn't have any installed.
Hmm, I reinstalled the MoBo drivers and restarted my computer and the HDD appears in My Computer now. It's using the same disk drivers that were already on my computer though. Not sure why they didn't work before. The mystery disk drive is still there though. I tried uninstalling it, but it just reappears, and when I have Windows search for a driver, it also automatically searches for a driver for the HDD that is now working all of a sudden (and the search fails for both devices). "pete" wrote: Your really not looking for HD drivers...you are looking for the drivers for the SATA controller on your motherboard.............try going to device manager and see if your HD is listed as being connected to a SATA or EIDE controller.....try rolling back the driver to the previous version or go to your mobo website and search for the drivers there. peter "S Murder" wrote in message ... I used the tool, but it doesn't let me export the info to a file, copy and paste the text, and it doesn't even show the time the events happened (only dates). I looked at it, and all it says is that it installed a bunch of Updates and that it failed to install the HDD drivers a bunch of times. "Don" wrote: S Murder wrote: .... Actually, my DVD drive works, but appears in the unknown device section as well. Please try this: open a command prompt window as administrator and type 'perfmon'. When the window opens click on the icon for Reliability Monitor. Browse around there and see if you can find anything to clue us all in to what's causing this annoying problem. Thanks. |
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HDD not recognized
On Mar 18, 2:45 am, S Murder
wrote: I can't roll back it's drivers because it doesn't have any installed. Hmm, I reinstalled the MoBo drivers and restarted my computer and the HDD appears in My Computer now. It's using the same disk drivers that were already on my computer though. Not sure why they didn't work before. The mystery disk drive is still there though. I tried uninstalling it, but it just reappears, and when I have Windows search for a driver, it also automatically searches for a driver for the HDD that is now working all of a sudden (and the search fails for both devices). "pete" wrote: Your really not looking for HD drivers...you are looking for the drivers for the SATA controller on your motherboard.............try going to device manager and see if your HD is listed as being connected to a SATA or EIDE controller.....try rolling back the driver to the previous version or go to your mobo website and search for the drivers there. peter "S Murder" wrote in message ... I used the tool, but it doesn't let me export the info to a file, copy and paste the text, and it doesn't even show the time the events happened (only dates). I looked at it, and all it says is that it installed a bunch of Updates and that it failed to install the HDD drivers a bunch of times. "Don" wrote: S Murder wrote: .... Actually, my DVD drive works, but appears in the unknown device section as well. Please try this: open a command prompt window as administrator and type 'perfmon'. When the window opens click on the icon for Reliability Monitor. Browse around there and see if you can find anything to clue us all in to what's causing this annoying problem. Thanks.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Have to come in here folks - I have had this problem with two hard disks now on Vista, one a Barracuda and one a Maxtor Diamondmax. When the drive is installed, on first boot Vista asks for a driver for the model number device, then tries to install from Windows Update. No dice. Then it asks you for a driver disk and then says it can't get a driver. In "Computer Management", the disk is there, but you can't assign a drive letter to it or format it - the commands are either greyed out or return an "Disk Management is not up-to-date" error message then freezes, after popping up anoyther wizard for "unknown device" It is notable how this only appears when you try to logically access the drive in disk manager. I dual-boot with XP Pro and the disk is fine there, I have put files on it, formatted, etc. A lot of people are commenting on this thread and other threads by saying "You really need drivers for your controller". This isn't correct. I called Seagate tech support on Friday (same company for both disks now after a merger) and they had heard of the problem affecting a few units, and advised me to use software to low-level format the drive in XP. I did this, booted in Vista and.....same problem. Only two of my other hard disks which were a spanned dynamic disk, have disappeared too. The problem is Vista asking for drivers for a device for which drivers are never distributed! George |
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HDD not recognized
I spoke too soon. It just stopped working again.
"S Murder" wrote: I can't roll back it's drivers because it doesn't have any installed. Hmm, I reinstalled the MoBo drivers and restarted my computer and the HDD appears in My Computer now. It's using the same disk drivers that were already on my computer though. Not sure why they didn't work before. The mystery disk drive is still there though. I tried uninstalling it, but it just reappears, and when I have Windows search for a driver, it also automatically searches for a driver for the HDD that is now working all of a sudden (and the search fails for both devices). "pete" wrote: Your really not looking for HD drivers...you are looking for the drivers for the SATA controller on your motherboard.............try going to device manager and see if your HD is listed as being connected to a SATA or EIDE controller.....try rolling back the driver to the previous version or go to your mobo website and search for the drivers there. peter "S Murder" wrote in message ... I used the tool, but it doesn't let me export the info to a file, copy and paste the text, and it doesn't even show the time the events happened (only dates). I looked at it, and all it says is that it installed a bunch of Updates and that it failed to install the HDD drivers a bunch of times. "Don" wrote: S Murder wrote: .... Actually, my DVD drive works, but appears in the unknown device section as well. Please try this: open a command prompt window as administrator and type 'perfmon'. When the window opens click on the icon for Reliability Monitor. Browse around there and see if you can find anything to clue us all in to what's causing this annoying problem. Thanks. |
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HDD not recognized
I had this family of problems too.
I disabled the drive, and told the BIOS not to automatically recognize the second drive. Then i rebooted and enabled teh BIOS and enabled the drive in device manager. something worked. On the DVD problems i had KB320533 worked a treat. "S Murder" wrote: I spoke too soon. It just stopped working again. "S Murder" wrote: I can't roll back it's drivers because it doesn't have any installed. Hmm, I reinstalled the MoBo drivers and restarted my computer and the HDD appears in My Computer now. It's using the same disk drivers that were already on my computer though. Not sure why they didn't work before. The mystery disk drive is still there though. I tried uninstalling it, but it just reappears, and when I have Windows search for a driver, it also automatically searches for a driver for the HDD that is now working all of a sudden (and the search fails for both devices). "pete" wrote: Your really not looking for HD drivers...you are looking for the drivers for the SATA controller on your motherboard.............try going to device manager and see if your HD is listed as being connected to a SATA or EIDE controller.....try rolling back the driver to the previous version or go to your mobo website and search for the drivers there. peter "S Murder" wrote in message ... I used the tool, but it doesn't let me export the info to a file, copy and paste the text, and it doesn't even show the time the events happened (only dates). I looked at it, and all it says is that it installed a bunch of Updates and that it failed to install the HDD drivers a bunch of times. "Don" wrote: S Murder wrote: .... Actually, my DVD drive works, but appears in the unknown device section as well. Please try this: open a command prompt window as administrator and type 'perfmon'. When the window opens click on the icon for Reliability Monitor. Browse around there and see if you can find anything to clue us all in to what's causing this annoying problem. Thanks. |
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