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MISSING SATA HARD DRIVE



 
 
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Old July 20th 08, 09:15 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices
DjLevel9[_8_]
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says New Volume D: it opens up now. 91mb is reserved for healthy
patition but all my files are gone .


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Old July 20th 08, 09:20 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices
DjLevel9[_8_]
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well Rich Join the club now here where gonna write a program to alter
vista so this doesn't happen again my friend who is the MSPCS is gonna
be doing this on his day what a way to spend his day off now,


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Old July 20th 08, 12:02 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices
Malke[_2_]
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DjLevel9 wrote:


some better find me a free program now to restore what was formatted i'm
sure there software out there to retreave it.



Or what? You'll post *again*?!! Please lose the dreadful "usenet gateway"
web interface you are using and set up a real newsreader so people want to
help you.

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Since you are using a web interface, you may not realize that this is really
a newsgroup. You will get far more out of this resource if you learn to use
a newsreader. There are many good newsreaders for Windows, but you can use
Outlook Express (XP) or Windows Mail (Vista) since you already have it.
Here are some links to information about newsgroups:

About Usenet:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/ - Usenet FAQs from the Internet FAQ Archives
http://www.usenetmonster.com/infocenter/
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Usenet - a brief explanation
of newsgroups

Outlook Express/Windows Mail as Newsreader:
http://michaelstevenstech.com/outloo...snewreader.htm
http://rickrogers.org/setupoe.htm
http://vistasupport.mvps.org/accessi...ndows_mail.htm

How to Post:
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Usenet
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375 - How to Ask a Question
http://users.tpg.com.au/bzyhjr/liszt.htm - How Not to Get Technical Help on
Usenet
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

http://aumha.org/nntp.htm - list of MS newsgroups
microsoft.public.test.here - MS group to test if your newsreader is working
properly
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/munad.htm - how to munge email address
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting - crossposting
http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm - multiposting

Other Newsreaders for Windows:
http://www.forteinc.com/main/homepage.php - Forte
http://www.mozilla.org - Thunderbird
http://gravity.tbates.org/
http://www.40tude.com/dialog/
http://xnews.newsguy.com/
*****

Malke
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Old July 20th 08, 02:47 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices
Colin Barnhorst[_2_]
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"DjLevel9" wrote in message
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Had to formate it I relabled it againto D: but had 14mb of a partition
of unlocated removed it then it came up with a format or non I chose
non and now it's formmatting the slave drive see just like the other
person of here it formatted with out us checking that box to do it.


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Well, Dude, congratulations! I think you just wiped out the recovery
partition that the computer mfg put there so you could recover your computer
to factory condition should you ever need to. Good job!

Why did you think it was so hard to do? Because you weren't supposed to.
Contact the mfg for instructions for restoring it or for recovery media
because it doesn't sound like you knew what it was and therefore likely did
not make recovery disks yourself.

Keep up the good work!

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Old July 23rd 08, 01:43 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices
daredvl_edm
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Well that is great that u got that figured out, but now the problem at
hand with the disapearing Sata drive. Anyone know of an actual fix for
this?


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Old January 15th 09, 05:41 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices
pcarew
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January 2009

I have the same issue on a HP DV9810us Laptop running Vista SP1.

On this laptop, if I put a Western Digital 120G hard drive in the
second bay, it dissapears when resuming from sleep.

I discovered that if I put a Toshiba 120G drive in the second bay
instead, this problem doesn't appear!!

With the WD drive, I tried setting the sleep time to "Never", but this
didn't make any difference.

On further investigation (both drives are known to be good), it turns
out that the WD drive use the default Microsoft SATA device handler,
where as the Toshiba drive uses it's own device driver.

This definitely points to a MS SATA device driver issue.

MS SATA Driver details:
Driver Provider: Microsoft
Driver Version: 6.0.6001.18000
Driver Date: 6/21/2006

I tried running "Driver Update", but Microsoft reported that this was
the most up to date driver at this time (January 14th 2009)

Western Digital doesn't provide any updated drivers (or any drivers for
that matter) from their web site.


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Old January 15th 09, 02:49 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices
DL
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As posted on numerous occassions do NOT use winupdate for drivers, obtain
them, in your case, from HP, and then only if needed to cure a known problem
or add functionality

MS does not write/make sata drivers they are written by hardware
manufacturers

"pcarew" wrote in message
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January 2009

I have the same issue on a HP DV9810us Laptop running Vista SP1.

On this laptop, if I put a Western Digital 120G hard drive in the
second bay, it dissapears when resuming from sleep.

I discovered that if I put a Toshiba 120G drive in the second bay
instead, this problem doesn't appear!!

With the WD drive, I tried setting the sleep time to "Never", but this
didn't make any difference.

On further investigation (both drives are known to be good), it turns
out that the WD drive use the default Microsoft SATA device handler,
where as the Toshiba drive uses it's own device driver.

This definitely points to a MS SATA device driver issue.

MS SATA Driver details:
Driver Provider: Microsoft
Driver Version: 6.0.6001.18000
Driver Date: 6/21/2006

I tried running "Driver Update", but Microsoft reported that this was
the most up to date driver at this time (January 14th 2009)

Western Digital doesn't provide any updated drivers (or any drivers for
that matter) from their web site.


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Old January 15th 09, 03:06 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices
pcarew
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I tried looking for drivers first.

Neither HP (for this notebook) or Western Digital (for the specific
drive) have drivers listed on their websites for SATA drives.
They just use the default driver.


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Old January 15th 09, 05:52 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices
DL
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An internal hd doesnt use a driver.
The sata controler is on the motherboard
HP lists sata controler drivers for winxp on this laptop, but not Vista, as
Vista has native support.
Maybe a firmware issue with you HD

"pcarew" wrote in message
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I tried looking for drivers first.

Neither HP (for this notebook) or Western Digital (for the specific
drive) have drivers listed on their websites for SATA drives.
They just use the default driver.


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