Sorry I should clarify. I'm referring to all internal drives. I also tried
the infcache.1 rename as brought up in other posts and that did not work
either. Basically it seems that no matter how or what I try Windows will not
load the volume driver for ANY drive past the original 2. I have a spare 320
that I was going to originally try to run raid 1 on but the backup wouldn't
install to raid since original config was not raid. What it boils down to is
that for whatever reason Vista will not go over 2 hard drives and 1 SATA DvD
drive for me. The 320 is Seagate 500 is Maxtor so difrent brands etc...
Only comonality is that Vista chokes when trying to go over 2 hard drives
regardless of the controllers used.

"Colin Barnhorst" wrote:

Vista does not have an issue with high capacity SATA drives nor with having
many more SATA hard drives than two. There was an issue I remember from the
techbeta with Maxtor OneTouch drives.

"Achase" wrote in message
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I have a wierd issue with Vista. At the moment I have 3 hard drives and
one
DVD That I am trying to use. Sometimes Vista actually reads the drive and
I
was able to format and save items to the number 3 500GB drive but when I
reboot Vista forgets it. There is always an item in device manager that
says
unknown device on volume manager and no matter what I do it will not
install
drivers for this. Does Vista have a problem with high GB drives or with
more
than 2 hard drives? Would seem odd especially since I've had more on
older
versions and I do have a 100% genuine ultimate version. Any time I try to
do
anything in Disk management it says the information is out of date and
will
not go any further. I've tried multiple ways of getting the drive to
install
but no matter what I do it's a roll of the dice if Windows will recognise
it
or not. My hard drive setup is Seagate 320 GB for C(Windows), 400GB for
programs and a 500GB Maxtor That I'm trying to install mainly as a backup.
I'm running a 3.4 dual core Intel CPU with 4GB of ram and crossfire
enabled
Video cards. I've tried diffrent controllers as I have 2 diffrent SATA
onbard controllers and even tried a 3rd pci controller. Needless to say
this
has been expensive and am looking for any solution. Anyone have
suggestions?