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Re: USB hard disks
Mark,
Not sure why, all four of my hard drives are SATA2, and my DVD is SATA1. No
IDE.
I have two USB 2.0 "fobs" a 1.0 GB and a 512 MB and don't run into the same
problem.
What happens when you launch the disk manager?
Bill F.
"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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