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Re: USB hard disks
Check your BIOS settings for your board. I don't see why the firmware in
the drive enclosure wouldn't communicate with the usb bus just fine. I
can't imagine that the IDE connection in the enclosure would make any
difference at all. The enclosure is not connecting to an IDE port on the
box. The system should just see it as a mass storage device.
"Mark Rae" <mark@markNOSPAMrae.com> wrote in message
news:u%23S9vOAFHHA.4080@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> OK - here's possibly an interesting one...
>
> I have recently purchased a new PC which has two SATA hard drives - no IDE
> drives at all.
>
> Have installed my MSDN copy of Vista Business on it - for development and
> testing purposes, naturally... :-)
>
> I also have a USB IDE hard disk harness which allows me to treat a
> stand-alone IDE hard drive as a USB device.
>
> When I plug the USB hard disk into one of the new PC's USB ports, it
> recognises it as a removable device but, because the machine has no IDE
> hard disk drivers on it, doesn't know what to do with it, doesn't create a
> drive letter for it etc... Windows Explorer (you know what I mean) seems
> to hang for an age while it tries to work out what to do with the new
> device, then displays nothing.
>
> Installing Vista onto a machine with IDE hard disks doesn't display this
> behaviour because it already knows all about IDE hard drives and what to
> do with them.
>
> What's the easiest way round this? Is it simply a matter of copying some
> files from the Vista image into the PC's %SYSTEM32% folder, or is there
> more to it than that...?
>
> Any assistance gratefully received.
>
> Mark
>
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