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2 hard drives not recognized in RC1 5600
I'm using a dual-boot XP and RC1 5600 system. When I'm on XP all the physical
drives ARE recognized. When I'm on RC1 vista 2 physical drives ARE NOT recognized. My thinking is that is because there are no vista drivers for the IDE controller for those two drives. According to device manager, the controller for those two unrecoginized drives is a "via bus master IDE controller -0571". I have looked all over the net for drivers for that controller and can't find any. Can anybody point me in the right direction on where to find them? -- J6 |
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2 hard drives not recognized in RC1 5600
I am using 5600 on a notebook with 2 external hard drives, it sees all three
of my hard drives. Maybe there is an issue with the booting program you are using. "J6" wrote: I'm using a dual-boot XP and RC1 5600 system. When I'm on XP all the physical drives ARE recognized. When I'm on RC1 vista 2 physical drives ARE NOT recognized. My thinking is that is because there are no vista drivers for the IDE controller for those two drives. According to device manager, the controller for those two unrecoginized drives is a "via bus master IDE controller -0571". I have looked all over the net for drivers for that controller and can't find any. Can anybody point me in the right direction on where to find them? -- J6 |
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2 hard drives not recognized in RC1 5600
I have attempted to install both the 64 bit and the 32 bit versions of VISTA
RC1 downloaded from Microsoft (can you actually download them from somewhere else). Both downloaded ISO files passed the checksum test. Both boot fine up until the point where the installation programs want me to select the hard drive on which to install VISTA. There is no drive in the list. A scan of both my motherboard CD and the windows VISTA installation disk does not provide the asked for driver that enables VISTA to see my IDE hard drive. A VISTA readiness scan when I was booted into Windows XP on this same computer said that I didn't have to do anything to run VISTA on this system. It reported that the IDE controller was a VIA Bus Master IDE Controller but gave no model/make/version number. I called Mach Speed (motherboard manufacturer) and they said it was a VIA problem. I looked on the VIA Arena and there appeared to be no VIA Bus Master IDE Controller update for VISTA (or any operating system for that matter). I guess a person wants to be very careful if they buy a new computer for the VISTA operating system. Apparently, if you have a VIA Bus Master IDE Controller it won't work. Not yet, anyway. Having said this, if anyone at all (hello VIA hint, hint, hint) can tell me where to find updated VIA Bus Master IDE Controller drivers that will work with VISTA I would appreciate the information. "Gene Fitz" wrote: I am using 5600 on a notebook with 2 external hard drives, it sees all three of my hard drives. Maybe there is an issue with the booting program you are using. "J6" wrote: I'm using a dual-boot XP and RC1 5600 system. When I'm on XP all the physical drives ARE recognized. When I'm on RC1 vista 2 physical drives ARE NOT recognized. My thinking is that is because there are no vista drivers for the IDE controller for those two drives. According to device manager, the controller for those two unrecoginized drives is a "via bus master IDE controller -0571". I have looked all over the net for drivers for that controller and can't find any. Can anybody point me in the right direction on where to find them? -- J6 |