Vista - vista ultimate 32 not detect drives

tristatetech · 07-30-2008

i have a toshiba qosmio g25 that i just placed 2 new 80 gig sata hard drives in and planned on doing a fresh install of vista ultimate 32 bit on the unit. BUT it will not recognize the drives installed. any ideas if there is a special driver i need or something i can adjust in the bios for it to be native? also0 does anyone know if this will cause problems with drivers for the system

**johngalt** · 07-30-2008

Have you checked your BIOS first to see if *it* recognizes the drives? You may have some SATA channels disabled from the factory / OEM / builder because nothing was installed....

tristatetech · 07-31-2008

Quote: Originally Posted by johngalt

Have you checked your BIOS first to see if *it* recognizes the drives? You may have some SATA channels disabled from the factory / OEM / builder because nothing was installed....

I have checked the bios and it does see both hard drives installed. i have also tried to set up the raid and install the raid drivers by pressing the proper keys during the windows installation. I also tried to use a single hard drive to install in case the raid drivers were not working properly. still no luck.

07-30-2008	#1 (permalink)
tristatetech vista ultimate 32bit 2 posts	vista ultimate 32 not detect drives i have a toshiba qosmio g25 that i just placed 2 new 80 gig sata hard drives in and planned on doing a fresh install of vista ultimate 32 bit on the unit. BUT it will not recognize the drives installed. any ideas if there is a special driver i need or something i can adjust in the bios for it to be native? also0 does anyone know if this will cause problems with drivers for the system
My System Specs

07-30-2008	#2 (permalink)
johngalt Vista Ultimate x64 MAK, OpenSolaris 5, Gentoo 2008.1.... 3,848 posts	Re: vista ultimate 32 not detect drives Have you checked your BIOS first to see if it recognizes the drives? You may have some SATA channels disabled from the factory / OEM / builder because nothing was installed....
My System Specs

07-31-2008	#3 (permalink)
tristatetech vista ultimate 32bit 2 posts	Re: vista ultimate 32 not detect drives Quote: Originally Posted by johngalt Have you checked your BIOS first to see if it recognizes the drives? You may have some SATA channels disabled from the factory / OEM / builder because nothing was installed.... I have checked the bios and it does see both hard drives installed. i have also tried to set up the raid and install the raid drivers by pressing the proper keys during the windows installation. I also tried to use a single hard drive to install in case the raid drivers were not working properly. still no luck.
My System Specs

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