Solid State drives under 64 bit Vista

March 17, 2008

I run a Tyan Tomcat K8E MB Opteron 180 dual core 4 gig of rammand two WD

harddrives. Operating system is Vista Home Premium 64 bit. I tried to install

a solid state drive which seemed to be recognised by by the bios but when

Vista started the SSD didn't show up under My Computer. I then tried two

SSD's in a raid they were recognised by the bios in the raid section of bios.

Once again when Vista started they didn't appear. To my mind it has to be a

Vista problem. Anyone have any ideas? Yes I updated drivers.

March 17, 2008

Re: Solid State drives under 64 bit Vista

Since they are seen as hard drives, did you open diskmgmt.msc? (If you like

lots of mouse clicks to do simple things, then: Start Menu, Right-click

Computer, select Manage. click Disk Management)? Were they visible there?

New hard disks need to be initialized. They don't magically get recognized

until you have a partition table on them, format them, and assign a drive

letter.

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Charlie.

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>I run a Tyan Tomcat K8E MB Opteron 180 dual core 4 gig of rammand two WD

> harddrives. Operating system is Vista Home Premium 64 bit. I tried to

> install

> a solid state drive which seemed to be recognised by by the bios but when

> Vista started the SSD didn't show up under My Computer. I then tried two

> SSD's in a raid they were recognised by the bios in the raid section of

> bios.

> Once again when Vista started they didn't appear. To my mind it has to be

> a

> Vista problem. Anyone have any ideas? Yes I updated drivers.

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