Re: Anyone trying 8GB of memory on Vista 64?

By Win2k did you mean to say XP? If you really mean Win2k it is not a
problem because VSS did not appear until XP.

As I said earlier, I use an external SATA drive for Vista so I just turn off
the external drive before restarting in XP. That is a gentler form of
physical disconnection than messing with cables. I have never used scsi so
have never played with it. I know people do prevent the problem by
disabling SATA drives in the BIOS. Obviously you can test it by setting a
restore point in Vista and then run through the routine you think will work.
If the restore point survives you are good to go.

"Noel" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Thank you Colin.
>
> At first look, it does not appear the idea of turning off one of my
> SCSI is possible thru either the LSI BIOS (you can have that ID not
> scanned, and that works fine, in making a drive disappear from the
> scanned device list), but as you go into Win2K the drive is there and
> never left. I even uninstalled a test scsi in Dev Manager, but alas,
> didn't make it go away on reboot. So, at this juncture, only mechanical
> disconnection would do it?
>
> I guess another option would be to install XP on the SCSI drive, and
> Vista on the SATA drive. I'm guessing it will be possible to disable
> the SATA controller in my BIOS (dont' have it running yet) so that this
> firmware-based method will allow me to isolate Vista when XP boots
> without having to unplug cables. It's getting sticky again (.
>
> May just have to go with XP and call it good, until someone figures out
> a happy workaround for this unfortunate limitation.
>
> Any further suggestions are appreciated . . .
>
>
> --
> Noel