Remove the IDE drive and see what you have. There have been reports of
strange behavior trying to install Vista on machines that have both PATA and
SATA drives.

"1maintenance" wrote in message
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Hello everyone,

My question is how come when a hard drive (Maxline III Model:
7V250F0 SATA) is initialized within windows XPPro and partitioned/
formatted and can be used in XPPro, when WindowsVista Home Basic on the
same machine does not recognized the drive except in disk manager it shows
the drive without drive letters? I have XPPRO installed on drive 0 and
Vista Home Basic on drive 3 in a dual boot with vista boot pro. Noticed
the bios has it as a master drive along with another drive on an IDE which
is a master too? I tried initializing in vista without any luck? So I
tried using after initializing with XPPro and Vista Home Basic wants to
load drivers for hardware but can't find any? I am confused! Anyway the
drive was out of a Dell computer originally (possibly an OEM drive?) and I
used a utility from their web sight to erase the drive. Then I did as
mentioned above. If anyone could help in this matter I would be grateful
for this help! Thanks in advance.

My co-worker friend had virus on drive and bought another? So he gave me
this one to play with. It is a Maxline III Model: 7V250F0. Understandable
maybe I just not doing the correct processes to accomplish this task?

Below is information about my computer. I have four hard drives installed
on my system and Maxtor 6Y080P0 -- drive 0 and Maxtor 7V250F0 [Hard drive]
(250.00 GB) -- drive 2 are both recognized by the bios as masters? Can I
make both IDE drives as Slaves by jumpers? How can I make Maxtor 7V250F0
[Hard drive] (250.00 GB) -- drive 2 as a slave?





Operating System

System Model

Windows Vista Home Basic (build 6000)

Enclosure Type: Desktop

Processor a

Main Circuit Board b

3.40 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4
8 kilobyte primary memory cache
512 kilobyte secondary memory cache

Board: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. 8KNXPU 1.x
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
BIOS: Award Software International, Inc. FF 09/02/2005

Drives

Memory Modules c,d

241.58 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
151.40 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

Maxtor 6Y080P0 -- drive 0 [Hard drive] (81.96 GB) -- drive Status:
Healthy


Maxtor 6Y120P0 [Hard drive] (122.94 GB) -- drive 1, Status: Healthy


Maxtor 7V250F0 [Hard drive] (250.00 GB) -- drive 2, Status: Healthy


SEAGATE ST336706LW SCSI Disk Device (36.70 GB) -- drive 3

2048 Megabytes Installed Memory

Slot 'A0' has 512 MB
Slot 'A1' has 512 MB
Slot 'A2' has 512 MB
Slot 'A3' has 512 MB


Local Drive Volumes






c: (NTFS on drive 3)
36.70 GB
17.77 GB free

f: (NTFS on drive 0)
40.00 GB
30.77 GB free

g: (NTFS on drive 1)
122.93 GB
67.92 GB free

h: (NTFS on drive 0)
41.95 GB
34.95 GB free