On Nov 14, 7:47 am, Dwarf <Dw...@xxxxxx> wrote:
Quote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> As has been pointed out by several people, myself included, throughout these
> newsgroups, you should not download and install updates from Microsoft for
> the hardware on your machine. You should obtain these updates directly from
> the website of the hardware manufacturer. An exception to this rule is for
> hardware manufactured by Microsoft themselves. Even so, there are some
> drivers which can be downloaded from the manufacturer but are best installed
> as part of a reinstallation. These include chipset drivers and storage
> drivers.
> Dwarf
>
> "dave xnet" wrote: Quote:
> > Hello, I recently installed Vista Ultimate, so I'm pretty new to it.
> > My boot drive is SATA(non raid) with an IDE secondary disk.
> Quote:
> > Vista lives in a logical drive on the SATA disk; in addition there
> > is a primary partition and two other logical data partitions.
> Quote:
> > I walked away from the pc and returned in about an hour.
> > There was the "safely remove hardware" icon in the systray.
> Quote:
> > I opened it up to get the details, and it wanted to "remove" the other
> > partitions on the sata drive. Huh? What's it talking about?
> Quote:
> > Any idea what that's about? Earlier I had run Windows update
> > and it offered the Nvidia SATA driver as an option which installed and
> > is working fine. COuld this be related?
> Quote:
> > Thanks,
> > Dave
Thanks for the info - I decided to try the driver bacause I'd never
seen it before.
When ever I've visited Nvidia, I've only found chipset and graphics
drivers.
I have the chipset installed, but I've never seen any mention about
whether it does anything
for non-raid SATA. Now that I've got this new driver, (file is
nvstor32.sys),
I've got a new tab in the device manager, and better performance.
Dave