Vista sata drives

All forum topics Previous Topic Next Topic. Replies 6. Anosh 3 Argentum. With Vista RC1 you have to provide the drivers. I put them on a usb drive and it went quite easy to load them.

RC2 included the drivers. No need to F6. Depends on the model computer, and whether the SATA drive will be the boot drive. Matt Artelt 2 Iron. It is by-design. Thus, we recommend back up all data and then format it as a work around. Thanks for the response Jie-Feng. I can guarantee though that I had gotten the drive working without formatting when I installed Vista the first time.

I wish I remembered what I did, I know after about a week of troubleshooting, I disconnected the drive, and when I reconnected it a few days later, for whatever reason, it was working. I hadn't formatted it, or made any other modifications to it. Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? SQL Server. Sign in. United States English. Home R2 Library Forums. Provides Suppliers with self-service tools targeted to the needs of their business.

Register, access, and manage Lyve Mobile services, subscriptions and projects. View registered products, register new products, and find product specific support. Twitter Facebook Google Plus Linked in. Seagate does not supply drivers for SATA drives because hard drives themselves do not require specific device drivers. This is especially true if the hardware is newer than the operating system.

SATA add-on cards will more than likely prompt for a driver. In either case, if the drive is not recognized by the OS Setup software, then you will need to supply a controller device driver.