A little baffled

Alright, I just got done installing Vista from XP Pro. Now, I have done everything I can think of to try and fix this and I am out of idea's, but now that I am actually running and using Vista, I have one of my three HDD's and my ODD not being detected within the OS, though, they do show up in my BIOS. What could be the problem?

 

Did you 'format' and do a clean install, or did you 'upgrade', over the top?

Have you tried manually upgrading device drivers in question?

What shows up in 'Device Manager'?


Regards..

 

It was a clean install, an 'upgrade' is not available if you're using Windows XP Pro.

 

And thank the good man above for that!


Regards..

 

? Any idea's on a solution?

 

Any idea's?

 

Man, peeps around here used to be a lot quicker with responses. I'm not trying to spam this thread, this is just a very annoying problem, the one hdd that's not being detected is the one HDD that has 30gb of my music stored on it and I need my ODD.

 

You never answered my other 2 questions


Regards...

 

In answer to what shows up in the device drivers, nothing for an ODD, and just the two HDD's that are detected and nothing for the third. As for manual, yes for the ODD, no luck.

 

Assuming as you say, all is above board within the BIOS then excluding physical deterioration of your HDD, there are more possible scenarios that may trigger the issues listed above:

- Due to the strict requirements of Windows Vista, the HDD controller may not be compatible with the new OS.
- The driver you are using may be too old to be used with Vista.
- The target disk for the installation is a dynamic one.
- The file system can be damaged.
- You are using FAT32 file system which is not compatible with Vista.


Regards...

 

The drive is an IDE drive, NTFS, it is internal. I have not moved any of the HDD's from there XP location.

Both the HDD and the ODD are not displayed in any way under the Device Manager, but are displayed during the boot-up process.