vista cant detect PATA/IDE hdd's

[j.o.s.h.1408]

Hi. i have a ASUS P6T Delux mobo along with a i7 920, 260gtx card, a seasonic 600w module psu, 1 sata hdd and 2 IDE HDD's and 3gb.

my issue is that windows vista ultimate edition 64bit cannot detect any of of the two IDE/PATA seagate hdd's i have installed on it.

i have checked the bios and under the "hard drive boot sequence" it detects all of my hdd's but under vista, only the sata HDD i have is detected succesfuly.

i tried going into disk management from vista but it still doesnt see either of those hdd's.

thanks in advance

[SiM]

You need to change something in your bios settings. I had a similar problem with an IDE DVD drive in vista with my P5K. I will look through my bios and try to remember what the setting is called!

[this_is_gav]

May sound a bit simple, but someone's got to ask it. Have you installed the JMicron drivers?

Are there any devices missing drivers or marked as not working correctly in Device Manager?

[j.o.s.h.1408]

nope there is no device drivers missing. i just went into add new hardware and scanned for new devices and nothing came up

i will go search for JMicron drivers but i have installed everything from the asus p6t setup disk. its bizare that vista doesnt work for IDE straight out of the box xp works fine. i dont even have to install any IDE/PATA drivers. infact i diddnt know such things existed

[Splash]

What mode is your SATA controller set to in the BIOS? (I don't have a P6T, so I'm not familar with the BIOS, but I had a similar issue with my old P5B Deluxe Wifi if the SATA controller was set to AHCI)

[j.o.s.h.1408]

its set to IDE. well after abit of experimenting and tweeking, i managed to get it to work but only one HDD

what i did was to first update my bios and instantly, vista recognised one of my pata hdd's

i then tried setting jumpers, checking the wires again etc and still only one hdd worked(sometimes).

i then changed my IDE cable and the other one started to work whilst the other one diddnt again i checked all cables etc and still no joy.

im guessing both of my IDE cables are messed up or vista can only identify and use one IDE so what i did was just take one of them out and put it inside an external enclosure.

a shame really that i cant use both. i have only been using vista for two days and it has given me a few problems already.

i had to reinstall and format my sata hdd twice for vista because the first time round, whilst installing my drivers, i got a BSOD and could never load vista after that :S

i am willing to give vista real go this time before bashing it but if after a couple of weeks use it gives me lots of problems, then im afraid i can and have every right to say vista does truly suck and will be going back to xp and windows 7(apparently its xp + vista).

im only trying vista because its 64bit(xp 64bit sucks i heard) and it has dx10

[Splash]

If it's what I'm thinking it's less that Vista sucks and more that the crappy emulated IDE controller on the boards that's the issue. I've not used an IDE drive in a few years now, but obviously that's not the case with everyone.

[j.o.s.h.1408]

If it's what I'm thinking it's less that Vista sucks and more that the crappy emulated IDE controller on the boards that's the issue. I've not used an IDE drive in a few years now, but obviously that's not the case with everyone.

yea it could be. after all, IDE is a ageing old connector thats being slowly being thrown out of the window. i wont be surpised if the next next intel gen mobo's wont have any IDE connectors on them!

seems like im 1 in 100 people that use IDE's.

[magneticman]

have you tried installing the intel chipset and the marvell drivers?

also did you disable anything in bios? i made a mistake of disabling pata by accident.

[shaithis]

Sounds like the master/slave/cable select jumpers haven't been set correctly.

[j.o.s.h.1408]

i had them both on "cable select".

[Splash]

Try one as master and one as slave. I've always found CS to be... flaky.