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Nick Le Lievre
Just been round my mates house. He had put the SATA drivers on a removable
drive in no folder but setup was detecting no compatible drivers
for installed hardware, if you deselected the hide drivers that aren't
compatible checkbox it then had a list of drivers on the pendrive some of
which I noted where the right drivers for the hardware. Found out the reason
why there were no compatible drivers was becuase SATA was disabled in the
BIOS by default... so I enabled it in AHCI mode (not running 2 drives in
RAID so thought that was right option).
After this the SATA AHCI BIOS screen came up just after POST and it went
through detecting SATA devices it found the DVD Writer but did not detect
the hard drive! I`m pretty sure it was on SATA port 5.
Anyway I went back into Vista setup after enabling the SATA AHCI mode and
this time it detected compatible drivers on the pendrive but when I selected
the ICH9 AHCI driver it didn't come up with a hard drive after to use for
the install... funny thing is though when you browse the available drives
there is a c:\ removable d:\DVD drive and an X:\Boot which has a number of
files on it like program files and users this makes me think that this is
the hard drive but is it?
When I mentioned to my mate that it was originally running in IDE mode he
said that when he first tried to install it came up with a message that the
drive would only work in IDE mode and that it did start the install
originally but froze half way through. I am now thinking the hard drive has
died but why is that X:\boot showing what is that? Should the hard drive
also be detected in the SATA AHCI BIOS screen alongwith the DVD Writer? I
would of thought so.
I just looked at the motherboard manual it has 2 GSATA ports for RAID and 5
SATA Ports... the DVD Writer is connected too SATA Port 4 and is
detected as device 4 by the SATA AHCI BIOS when it goes thru detecting
devices... I`ve just emailed my mate advising him to connect the hard drive
too SATA Port 0.. I`m not sure which SATA Port we connected it too or if we
connected it too a GSATA port by my guess is if (and this is a big if) if
its connected to a GSATA port then it wouldn't be detected by the AHCI BIOS.
I think however that at one stage it was connected to one of the normal SATA
ports and wasn't detected suggesting the hard drive is dead.
Also when the hard drive was originally in IDE mode Vista setup didn't want
to do anything with it just left us at the load drivers screen, didn't
detect a hard drive operating in IDE mode to use. My mate reckons the first
time he did it - it detected a hard drive operating in IDE mode and started
to install but froze half way through. So I guess it should detect a hard
drive if its in IDE mode which it doesn't anymore. I don't want to send the
hard drive back if its OK so I need to be 100% sure its dead.
drive in no folder but setup was detecting no compatible drivers
for installed hardware, if you deselected the hide drivers that aren't
compatible checkbox it then had a list of drivers on the pendrive some of
which I noted where the right drivers for the hardware. Found out the reason
why there were no compatible drivers was becuase SATA was disabled in the
BIOS by default... so I enabled it in AHCI mode (not running 2 drives in
RAID so thought that was right option).
After this the SATA AHCI BIOS screen came up just after POST and it went
through detecting SATA devices it found the DVD Writer but did not detect
the hard drive! I`m pretty sure it was on SATA port 5.
Anyway I went back into Vista setup after enabling the SATA AHCI mode and
this time it detected compatible drivers on the pendrive but when I selected
the ICH9 AHCI driver it didn't come up with a hard drive after to use for
the install... funny thing is though when you browse the available drives
there is a c:\ removable d:\DVD drive and an X:\Boot which has a number of
files on it like program files and users this makes me think that this is
the hard drive but is it?
When I mentioned to my mate that it was originally running in IDE mode he
said that when he first tried to install it came up with a message that the
drive would only work in IDE mode and that it did start the install
originally but froze half way through. I am now thinking the hard drive has
died but why is that X:\boot showing what is that? Should the hard drive
also be detected in the SATA AHCI BIOS screen alongwith the DVD Writer? I
would of thought so.
I just looked at the motherboard manual it has 2 GSATA ports for RAID and 5
SATA Ports... the DVD Writer is connected too SATA Port 4 and is
detected as device 4 by the SATA AHCI BIOS when it goes thru detecting
devices... I`ve just emailed my mate advising him to connect the hard drive
too SATA Port 0.. I`m not sure which SATA Port we connected it too or if we
connected it too a GSATA port by my guess is if (and this is a big if) if
its connected to a GSATA port then it wouldn't be detected by the AHCI BIOS.
I think however that at one stage it was connected to one of the normal SATA
ports and wasn't detected suggesting the hard drive is dead.
Also when the hard drive was originally in IDE mode Vista setup didn't want
to do anything with it just left us at the load drivers screen, didn't
detect a hard drive operating in IDE mode to use. My mate reckons the first
time he did it - it detected a hard drive operating in IDE mode and started
to install but froze half way through. So I guess it should detect a hard
drive if its in IDE mode which it doesn't anymore. I don't want to send the
hard drive back if its OK so I need to be 100% sure its dead.