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MISSING SATA HARD DRIVE
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, -- DjLevel9 |
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MISSING SATA HARD DRIVE
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. *** 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 -- MS-MVP Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic! FAQ - http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ |
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MISSING SATA HARD DRIVE
"DjLevel9" wrote in message
... 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. -- DjLevel9 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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MISSING SATA HARD DRIVE
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? -- daredvl_edm |
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MISSING SATA HARD DRIVE
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. -- pcarew |
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MISSING SATA HARD DRIVE
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 ... 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. -- pcarew |
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MISSING SATA HARD DRIVE
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. -- pcarew |
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MISSING SATA HARD DRIVE
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 ... 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. -- pcarew |