| Quote: | Bill MacDonald |  | |
| Recently installed Vista Ultimate x64. Immediately updated with Windows update including SP1. Went to partition a WD 3200AAKS which was to be used for storage and backups. Drive is shown in Bios, Device manager, and Disk manager and drivers installed. Connected by Sata to the board. Started partitoning by shrinking the volume, and then choosing New Simple volume in the unalloacted space. It hangs at this point but a new "Other Device" is shown in device manager. Checked and it is identified as generic Volume, so I attempted to install drivers with no success. Went through all the steps including the Microsoft fix which of course failed for this. Also used browse to point to inf and driverstore. Nothing worked. Initially got the message "The system cant find the file specified" and followed all the driver install procedure from there. Almost sounds like a problem similar to the USB problems. Any suggestions. After all this I have to delete both to get the entire drive back. | |
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Need a little bit more info. When you installed the drive, did you format it? If so, what did you use to format the drive? Vista or the included disk (WD Lifeguard?)? FAT32 or NTFS? After you formatted, did you store any data on the drive before the shrink? Since you state that is will be used for data and backups (I'm assuming your main Vista partition is on another drive), was it formatted as a logical partition or a primary? Is this a SATA 3Mb/sec drive (I would assume it is)? Does your mobo support SATA 3Mb/sec drives (what is your mobo)? Sorry for all the questions, they are relevant.