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The Vista install completes and the user removes the DVD. Upon startup, the user finds that Vista will not boot. Vista is looking for the boot code on the drive where the user had chosen to install Vista (system partition). It is not there. Part of it resides on another drive where it is not recognized.

hard drive not recognized
Understandable maybe I just not doing the correct processes to accomplish this task? Below is information about my computer. I have four hard drives installed on my system and Maxtor 6Y080P0 -- drive 0 and Maxtor 7V250F0 [Hard drive] (250.00 GB) -- drive 2 are both recognized by the bios as masters?

Hard Drive Problems.
Specific history: I installed Vista at a point where I knew I needed to reinstall XP. The kids games had trashed the installation. So when I decided against Vista, I just reformated, wiping out both the XP and Vista installations. From that point on XP has not recognized that there is a hard drive in the computer.

Windows Vista and Hard drive recognition.
Walter Mautner leafyes.20.eatalls...@spamgourmet.com 24hoursupport helpdesk alt os windows-vista alt os windows-xp alt usenet kooks Kadaitcha Man, vista policy violation: Microsoft optical mouse found penguin patterns on mousepad. Partition scan in progress to remove offending incompatible products.

USB Devices Not Recognized
I did unplug ide drives and Vista recognized the sata drives. When I plug ide's back in and boot they are not recognized? Can I do anything to make all these work Hello everyone, My question is how come when a hard drive (Maxline III Model: 7V250F0 SATA) is initialized within windows XPPro and partitioned/

External USB Hard Drive not working, Vista asking for drivers
I installed XP but the ethernet card is not recognized. I thought, OK fine, if XP won't work then I'll put Vista back on. After a clean reinstall of Windows AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Processor, 1 GB of RAM, 160 GB SATA Hard Drive Model ST3160812AS, CDRW/DVD-ROM Combo optical drive, Internal Floppy Disk Drive,

Vista Backup & Restore Problem
Device Manager should show whether the drive is recognized. Also, Vista emits a sound when you plug it in, or at least it should. Let us know how this turns out. -- freddy "Rita1107" wrote: Freddy: I have an external hard drive that is not recognized by my computer. When I hook it up to the laptop, it works fine.

hard drive not recognized
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote: I have had one external enclosure that just was not compatible with Vista x64. I have read reports in the Vista newsgroups of others. It appears to be firmware. If the enclosure works with x86 on the same port it refuses to work on in x64 then that is almost certainly the problem.

HDD not recognized
I happens to sometimes plugged my USB Flash key device to drop some documents on my hard drive but I immediately unplugged the device after the task is done. I used to have a Lexmark 1290 printer plug to my computer but since it was not working fine on Vista I have decided to unplug it and delete the peripheral in

Vista & External Hard Drive - Not Recognized
I have an external Maxtor that will not work with Vista. I'll be damned if I am going back to XP because of it. I just use my 500 gig Seagate hard drive that HOWEVER, the device is still NOT RECOGNIZED by Vista. In Device Manager, it still has a yellow caution symbol next to the device, and the drive does not

Windows Vista and Hard drive recognition.
The other point involves contacting the manufacturer of the USB hard drive. The manufacturer should know whether their hard drive has issues in working with Vista. My own point is that if you have confirmed that your hard drive is spinning up and running after you plug it in, and it still is not recognized by Vista

External hard drive no longer recognised
I have a floppy as my A: drive, main hard drive is C:, CD drive as D:, DVD drive as E, sd card reader as F: a Second Hard Drive as H:. and then partitions on a NAS It is not there. Part of it resides on another drive where it is not recognized. If the user puts the DVD into the drive tray, Vista boots fine.

External USB hard drive not recognized
fly_fishr flyfi...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista hardware_devices Thanks Carey, I tried that earlier too. Figuring an INTERNAL New Hard Drive might be the solution., I purchased - a WD., SATA 500 Gig Drive. This also is not recognized by the computer software.

Vista installation doesn't recognize my hard drive
When I used Windows Vista DVD and selected "Repair Your Computer" option, Windows did not detect any hard drive partition and operating system. I have another SATA drive, it was also not recognized by Windows Vista. Both drive had Windows Ultimate installed previously. These drives are less than 6 month old,

WD 250GB SATA External Drive not Recognized by Windows XP
My conclusions: something changed on the hard drive (a file, a sector used by Vista to recognize the drive) that will knock out Vista, even if its a secondary drive. HP has not been able to help and I had sent in a request to Microsoft but have not heard back from them. I wonder how many other people have had this

USB Drive not recognized - Driving me crazy!!!
There may also be drivers available for your hard drive too. "S Murder" wrote: All of a sudden Vista won't recognize my Samsung hd1600jj 160GB SATA II Drive, or my Samsung CD/DVD Reader/Writer. It's asking for the drivers, but I never needed drivers for them in the first place.

hard drive not recognized
cqui3 cq...@hotmail.com microsoft public windows vista hardware_devices Uninstall it in device manager. Reboot. They should appear in Disk Management. I was able to get the drive to be recognized by the BIOS; there are no problems with this aspect. The drive is not recognized under Disk Management, however.

Allan
There was a bunch of them but I can't say the dates and times on the errors occured when I was trying to access the external hard drive. Following is the jist of the text I found on one of the errors . . . if this makes any sense. - <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event"> - <System>

Vista will not boot - work around
Vista Home Premium 32 bit Acer Aspire 5100 AMD Turion 64 bt processor 2 gb RAM 120 GB hard drive No new updates available. Acer service is crap, and I'm not finding much help from Microsoft either. Acer also does not provide an install disk so I don't see how I can do a clean reinstall of Vista.

How do I run an ??????????????????
The message files on the 1st CD were Transferred with WET, but the ones on the 2nd CD were not recognized even for Transferring to the Desktop Folder. Any suggestions on HOW to finally import my OE Messages and Folders from the old Hard Drive [using an external USB Adapter/Converter Cable, Vista recognized that the