Whats Happened!?

[Ommid]

Just reset my PC and both my Drives have gone they are two Pioneer SATAs

There is some SCSI Things showing in the Device Manager. Dont know what they are??



Please help Thanks

[TAKTAK]

*trys best irsish accent*

have yoo tried turning it oof and oon ageen?

[NovaSphere]

That's a load of space you got there lol

[Ommid]

*trys best irsish accent*

have yoo tried turning it oof and oon ageen?

Believe it or not, yes I did

That's a load of space you got there lol

Haha, yea Few of my HDs arent plugged in ATM Too lol

[TAKTAK]

do the drives show up in the BIOS?

[Ommid]

do the drives show up in the BIOS?

yes they do

[Behemoth]

Would appear then that Vista has dropped it's driver, mine did that a few times, might be worth you doing a repair install and see what happens ?

Have you disabled the drives in bios, booted Windows like it and then re-enabled them agaon and booted back into windows to see if it will pick the drives up ?

[TAKTAK]

try swapping the drives around a bit (SATA port wise)

[Ommid]

Would appear then that Vista has dropped it's driver, mine did that a few times, might be worth you doing a repair install and see what happens ?

Have you disabled the drives in bios, booted Windows like it and then re-enabled them agaon and booted back into windows to see if it will pick the drives up ?

No didnt try that, removed them from Device manager and rebooted. Didnt work

I installed a new hd last night but it has been working since then dont know why it has gone ?

[Behemoth]

I guess it's an outside chance, and something worth looking at but with the amount of hard drives you've got have you possibly run out of available drive letters ? Have a look in disk management in storage on admin tools, is that showing your DVD drives without a drive letter assigned ?

[Ommid]

I guess it's an outside chance, and something worth looking at but with the amount of hard drives you've got have you possibly run out of available drive letters ? Have a look in disk management in storage on admin tools, is that showing your DVD drives without a drive letter assigned ?

Over 15 letters left and the DVD drives dont show up in Disk Management as they arent disks

[TAKTAK]

DVD drives dont show up in Disk Management as they arent disks

they do

the drives with some form of formatting are at the top in the list sectiony bit...

drives that dont have formatting are still shown at the bottom aswell as the drives that do have formatting

this is part of your problem as to why they are not working

try connecting them to an unused SATA port (guessing they are SATA) also, check that you havn't disturbed the SATA cables

[Jay]

most OS's see SATA as SCSI hence the SCSI in your device manager. Are you sure you have no IO conflicts of any kind?

[Ommid]

They are showing in the BIOS so the SATA must be connected properly!? I have tried a few things and it is still the same, isnt showing in Disk Management either.

[TAKTAK]

They are showing in the BIOS so the SATA must be connected properly!? I have tried a few things and it is still the same, isnt showing in Disk Management either.

just something to try... can you boot from the drives?

try a linux liveCD or somesuch

[this_is_gav]

The SCSI disks will be virtual drives.

Daemon Tools follows the same naming scheme, so presumably you've either got 3 Daemon Tools drives, or some other virtual disk tool which uses the SPTD virtual bus.

I doubt that's affecting things, but it might be worth uninstalling both the virtual drive tool and SPTD if you can, then trying to work things out from there.

Something I realised in XP is when cloning a machine with Daemon Tools, it refused to work in the new machine, but asked for a driver. On the first attempt at installing the driver (let the system find the driver, as it's already in the inventory) it failed, but on the 2nd attempt it installed correctly. Every single machine. Try letting updating the driver twice (no restarts or anything between) choosing the "search automatically for updated driver software" option both times. Unlikely to work in this case, but it's worth a shot.

For reference, in the Driver Details section in the Device Properties for every CD/DVD drive (regardless of it being real or virtual) I've got listed (Vista x64):
C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\AnyDVD.sys*
C:\Windows\System32\DRIVERS\cdrom.sys (version 6.0.6001.18000 (longhorn_rtm.080118-1840))
C:\Windows\System32\DRIVERS\SiRemFil.sys**

* clearly for AnyDVD, so you probably won't have it
** Silicon Image SiL 3132 SATA controller

If you get things working, then try reinstalling the latest SPTD and whichever virtual drive software you were using.