Guest keithrider Posted August 17, 2008 Posted August 17, 2008 Hi there My PC has a removable HD Caddy, so I can use other OS. I thought that I would upgrade, and put in a Maxtor DiamondMax 320Gb SATA drive, to use as extra storage, accessible for all the various OS. Windows Vista can see and use it, without me needing to do anything, and also Ubuntu 8. Win XP 64 Pro cannot see it. On boot up, if I look in the SATA bios, the HD is listed, but I cannot do anything as nothing is ‘highlighted.’ But I don’t think this would solve the problem. I have an Optronix MB OP-K9A8PRO-ALF, chipset Via K8T800Pro+VT8237 with an AMD 64 3500, and 2Gb Ram. The Optronix CD is no help, and the company seem to have disappeared now. I could do with some driver for XP 64, but have had no luck. Any ideas? KJR
Guest Charlie Russel - MVP Posted August 17, 2008 Posted August 17, 2008 Re: Win XP 64 cannot see SATA drive You'll need a driver for that SATA controller. It looks like it's a VIA VT8237 from your description, so go directly to http://www.viaarena.com. You can download a driver there. -- Charlie. "keithrider" <keithrider@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:8992C079-6193-4C5E-AA4A-5C6C5CC26A26@microsoft.com... > Hi there > My PC has a removable HD Caddy, so I can use other OS. > I thought that I would upgrade, and put in a Maxtor DiamondMax 320Gb SATA > drive, to use as extra storage, accessible for all the various OS. > Windows Vista can see and use it, without me needing to do anything, and > also Ubuntu 8. > Win XP 64 Pro cannot see it. On boot up, if I look in the SATA bios, the > HD > is listed, but I cannot do anything as nothing is ‘highlighted.’ But I > don’t > think this would solve the problem. > I have an Optronix MB OP-K9A8PRO-ALF, chipset Via K8T800Pro+VT8237 with an > AMD 64 3500, and 2Gb Ram. The Optronix CD is no help, and the company seem > to > have disappeared now. > I could do with some driver for XP 64, but have had no luck. > Any ideas? > > KJR > >
Guest keithrider Posted August 18, 2008 Posted August 18, 2008 Re: Win XP 64 cannot see SATA drive "Charlie Russel - MVP" wrote: > You'll need a driver for that SATA controller. It looks like it's a VIA > VT8237 from your description, so go directly to http://www.viaarena.com. You can > download a driver there. > > -- > Charlie. Thanks Charlie - did the job fine, once I managed to get past the Driver Detective. > "keithrider" <keithrider@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:8992C079-6193-4C5E-AA4A-5C6C5CC26A26@microsoft.com... > > Hi there > > My PC has a removable HD Caddy, so I can use other OS. > > I thought that I would upgrade, and put in a Maxtor DiamondMax 320Gb SATA > > drive, to use as extra storage, accessible for all the various OS. > > Windows Vista can see and use it, without me needing to do anything, and > > also Ubuntu 8. > > Win XP 64 Pro cannot see it. On boot up, if I look in the SATA bios, the > > HD > > is listed, but I cannot do anything as nothing is ‘highlighted.’ But I > > don’t > > think this would solve the problem. > > I have an Optronix MB OP-K9A8PRO-ALF, chipset Via K8T800Pro+VT8237 with an > > AMD 64 3500, and 2Gb Ram. The Optronix CD is no help, and the company seem > > to > > have disappeared now. > > I could do with some driver for XP 64, but have had no luck. > > Any ideas? > > > > KJR > > > > > >
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