• Troubleshooting Windows Vista (Part 2)

    Troubleshooting Windows Vista (Part 2)

    Nikhil Rastogi, May 11, 2008 1033 hrs IST

    Here's how the expert fixes your Vista-related issues

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I don't believe it -- my Windows Vista doesn't show up SATA drives at all. They work fine in Windows XP; what's wrong?

The disappearance of SATA drives is not a VISTA-specific issue per se but a BIOS setting. This problem occurs if the computer uses an Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) chipset; not if you've AHCI chipset that uses Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment (PATA) emulation mode. So if your BIOS allows that, your drives will immediately show up. Since you haven't mentioned your BIOS details, check your manual on how to do this.

If in case you still have the same problem, I recommend you go to the Microsoft site to procure a hot fix specifically for this here. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928253. It may take a while to procure the hot fix as it is not readily downloadable; you have to contact Microsoft Online Customer Services to obtain it... bummer!


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(8) Comments
riyaz parihar
,new delhi, on May 14, 2008 12:22 PM
isnt it true that xp is faster then the windows vista
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kirk4u
,mumbai, on May 22, 2008 04:42 PM
any god damn day, but XP is no match to Vista's high security
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S S Kaimal
,Mumbai, on May 14, 2008 01:44 PM
Your link for LLTD manual download is incorrect. Please give correct link. The link given by you goes to SATA HDD problem
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nette
,taiwan, on May 13, 2008 05:24 AM
wow thats great.. we have the same problem.. i'll try that
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amit
,mumbai, on May 12, 2008 01:40 PM
ok
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Rohit Jain
,Kolkata, on May 12, 2008 11:01 AM
That was a neat article 'bout few of the errors one may face. Good work!
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Vishal_Kadakia
,mumbai, on May 11, 2008 09:08 PM
hi, firstly i have 6 systems 3 xp sp3 and 3 vista sp1 and i DONT have any issues managing my internal network at all, so the issue beeing discussed here could be an isolated one or jus a randon occurance. secondly i have 4 SATA HDD and they setup as RAID and i dont see any issue such as beeing mentioned here. pls note i am not critising the colum at all but simply sharring facts as they are, however, a good one for noobs using vista
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Khong
,Singapore, on May 11, 2008 03:18 PM
I have 3 XP PCs and 2 Vista Notebooks. in my office, linked by wireless network. All 5 machines can access well to one another. Recently, I bought another HP Vista Notebook. But this machine can't view the 3 XPs on the view map. The other 2 Vista also cannot access to this machine. How am I going to solve this problem? Should I download anything from Microsoft?
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