churin

PeterG wrote:
> I have a problem I hope may be solvable with some help from others. My PC has
> an e sata port on the rear and my external hard drive works fine on USB but
> as soon as I connect to the e sata port the PC simply does not recognise its
> existence at all. I have tried updating drivers, setting bios for e sata etc
> all to no avail. Has anyone got a solution? I am running Vista Home Ultimate
> 32bit with an MSI mainboard.
With the extent of problem description as given, there are a number of
possible causes. Let me ask questions:
1) Does the Device Manager show that the drivers are installed and
indicate the device is working?
2) Is the external SATA HDD powered?

I can think of more questions but please answer the above as a starter.

churin