Vista - Problem with eSATA hard drive

I've been running XP Pro for years, 3 SATA hard drives in the case & 1
external SATA drive (FAT32). With XP, I could turn on the eSATA drive
(always connected) anytime & it is automatically detected.

With Vista Ultimate, if the eSATA drive was OFF at boot time, turning it on,
once fully booted, does not detect the 4th drive. Disk Management (local)
doesn't see the 4th drive either. If I turn on the eSATA drive before
booting, Vista sees the drive just fine.

Just to test if something broke, I re-loaded an XP image & turned the eSATA
drive on after booting--automatically detected just fine.

"CaptNorm" <thecaptain101@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> I've been running XP Pro for years, 3 SATA hard drives in the case & 1
> external SATA drive (FAT32). With XP, I could turn on the eSATA drive
> (always connected) anytime & it is automatically detected.
>
> With Vista Ultimate, if the eSATA drive was OFF at boot time, turning it
> on, once fully booted, does not detect the 4th drive. Disk Management
> (local) doesn't see the 4th drive either. If I turn on the eSATA drive
> before booting, Vista sees the drive just fine.
>
> Just to test if something broke, I re-loaded an XP image & turned the
> eSATA drive on after booting--automatically detected just fine.
>


This wont help you but I have an esata and just turned it on and connected
and shows ok ( well it didnt at first so I rebooted and still nothing and
then I found the esata connector was not plugged in...plugged it in and
straight away it came up )

Have Vista Home Premium and am using the Asus A8N32 sli deluxe mobo