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Assigning a drive letter in my machine is not possible
I have windows 7 installed on an 80Gb Ide drive
XP is installed on a 500GB SATA drive
Originally tried installing Windows 7 on a partition on the SATA, but was not successful
installation was hung on 'Completing installation'
tried 5-6 times, then I gave up and installed on the IDE
and it works fine but can not see files on the SATA
The SATA drive shows as disk 1 in disk management
when I try assign a drive letter I get the following dialog:
'The operation failed because Disk management console is not Up-to-date.
refre the view by by using the refresh task, If the problem persistd close Disk managemet consol, then restrat disk management or restart the computer.'
great suggestions, unfortunately none of them work.
Anyone experince this problem and have a workaround
I am beginning to think Windows 7 doesn't have any SATA controller drivers included. Try installing the SATA drivers for your MBoard into Windows 7. Don't know if that will work because the latest drivers are for WinXP.
I am having similar issues myself. Installation failed at the completing setup phase. Tried again but hit F6 and supplied SATA drivers. The screen gave a choice to only use compatible drivers. Still accepted the SATA controller drivers but not the RAID drivers.
Install still failed but I think it was due to bad RAM. I RMAed all 4 sticks of my RAM.
Going back to your issue. I believe Windows 7 can't see the SATA drive because of a driver issue. The drive doesn't show in Disk management or My Computer does it? If it does you may need to take ownership of the files/ folders.
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I've tried 3 diff Silicon Image 3112 drivers
and none of them work in Win7
I'd try taking ownership of the files but that's not possible since I can't connect to the drive.
as I said before:
>The SATA drive shows as disk 1 in disk management, but not in explorer because of missing drive letter.
when I try assign a drive letter I get the error as pr original post
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Has the 500GB SATA drive been used on this motherboard in the past?
The 500GB would be a SATA II drive. Your motherboard only supports SATA I drives. There may be a jumper on the back of the drive to throttle the drive to SATA I speeds. This might be an issue, even if the drive previously worked.
I'm thinking that because you were not able to install to the 500GB SATA drive but ultimately did get Windows 7 working the SATA drive was not recognized by Windows 7, for whatever reason.
Do you have any listing for SATA controllers in Device Manager? They may be listed under the IDE controller heading.
If none are listed then try using the add new hardware wizard, if such a thing exists in Windows 7.
The first time I attempted to install Windows 7 screens indicated there were drivers available in Windows 7. Asked if I wanted to use the ones supplied on the floppy or the available OS drivers.
Did you try installing the motherboard chipset drivers?
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The Sata has XP pro installed on it and is my work installation and works great
and from it obviously the Ide drive with win7 is showing and working fine.
Under win7, the SI3112 drivers are installing fine(tried 3 dif versions)
Yes I tried installing the MB drivers
AND 2 newer versions, All installed succesfully, no errors showing in device mngr.
the drive Does show as disk 1 in administrative tools/computer management/disk drives.
it will not allow drive letter assigment
only other option is Format the drive, which I for obvious reason do not want to do because it's my working OS, XP Pro NTFSBTW I realy think this new OS is worth trying/bying when available, I personnally have VISTA in one machine for testing only on a network
but the network goes wonky after a couple of weeks, looses connections, can't see XP computers, previously mapped drives etc. , so I decided to skip Vista and am hoping win 7 is more stable
I think the SATA issue will be fixed in the RC, but it would be a lot more convenient to be able to copy files from the SATA drive whe running win7 on the IDEThanks for the input
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I agree with what you say in the above reply.
Did some Googling concerning assigning a drive letter in Vista (old Windows 7).
Doesn't look good. When you tried to install to the SATA drive that overwrote some files on the SATA drive. Probably the MBR.
Have you tried booting to the WinXP installation on the SATA to see if the drive is still functional and accessable.
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So the drive is labeled as disk 1.
Forgot to ask you how the 500GB SATA drive is partitioned. If partitions are showing what is the status labeling for each partition. Things like active, system, healthy, etc.
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Othehill,
Yes, the xp installation on the sata is working and boots fine.
partioned the 500 GB sata 300 XP - 200 GB for win7. When I first tried installing win7 on the new partition it failed 5-6 times
I then got rid of the new partition
did fixboot and fixMbr
and XP was/is running fine on the single 500GB partition, which is what it was before attempting to install win7I see and can add/remove files on both drives when booting from XP/Sata, but not when booting from IDE/Win7
So the only way I can add files to the IDE, is to boot from XP/Sata, or Boot from IDE/Win7 and do it from a networked machine.Thanks again
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OtheHill, Had to reboot to answer you last Q.
in Win7 management Console
the Sata shows:
Disk1
Basic
465.76GB
Online
Can not get Properies
However there is a 9MB unallocated partition on the same HD which will allow me to get Propertiesit actually gives me info abt the whole drive:
Disk1
Basic
Master Boot Record(MBR)
capacity 476939 MB
Unallocated space 9 MB
Reserved Space 0MB
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Sounds like there is nothing wrong with the hard drive. May be some sort of glitch in Windows 7. It is a beta version after all.
I wonder if Microsoft has a forum for beta testers. Try here:
Keep in mind that Windows 7 is an extension of Vista. As such work arounds for Vista should also work for 7. Try Googling for "assigning drive letter in Vista".
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OtheHill,
Been there done that
I think I'll have to wait for either MS or Silicon Image
maybe Beta 2Oh well....
I still like the OS and think there is a possibility for a decent and reliable upgrade from XP
All my 32bit apps are working fine
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flyhne
I am waiting for replacement RAM before I can try installing Windows 7 again. Right now I am running only 512MB temporarily until my RMAed RAM is replaced.
When I get it back I will find out if your isue is unique or not. I have TWO SATA hard drives installed. I intend to install Windows 7 to my 500GB. WinXP is running on my 250GB.
I will try to let you know if I have similar issues. My rig is older and the SATA controllers are nvidia.
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OtheHill,
I tried installing on WD 70GB Raptor, and that was a NoGo as well
I think it has to be the SI3112 SATA driversGood Luck and thanks again
Fred.
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I had a failure installing on SATA with nvidia controllers. Could have been the RAM though. Won't know until I get RAM back.
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OtheHill,
My MB controller is also Nvidia
(Nforce2)
PCI system management
AGP host to PCI Bridge
memory controller
and Ultra 400 memory controller
the SCSI and Raid controller is
Silicon Image Sil 3112 SATARaid ControllerHope it works for you :-))
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Might be the raid is a soft raid and W7 doesn't like it. Add drivers in?
I think there are a lot of missing driver on this version.
"Best Practices", Event viewer, host file, perfmon, antivirus, anti-spyware, Live CD's, backups, are in my top 10
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I have 6 SATA hdd's. (intel xbx2 mobo)
4 of them are on the primary sata controller and the other 2 on the secondary controller.
All 4 on the primary controller are seen and can be used. The secondary controller however is nowhere to be seen. Not much different from vista... until I install Marvell raid drivers which corrected the problem. The issue here (for me anyway) is that I can't install Marvell onto Windows 7.
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I have installed Win 7 in two partitions (32- and 64 bit) on a 250 gig Sata drive in my HP laptop. (Vista is still the default OS). No problems on install.
My only problem is an SATA 640 gig Seagate drive I have mounted in a external enclosure and connected via USB. If I boot Win 7 with the drive running it isn't seen unless I turn the drive off and turn it on again. Even then, sometime the connection is lost if the drive isn't in constant use.
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The end result is that Windows 7 has a ways to go yet. At this point in time it isn't intended to be an everyday work station OS.
It would be nice if they had included the necessary drivers. My guess is that Microsoft approached the various vendors and asked for drivers that were rewritten for Windows 7.
They probably got some and others may not have provided what was requested. No different than the migration from XP to Vista.
I am not defending MS. Just stating what I believe to be the process. Hopefully the final release of Windows 7 will include ALL the necessary drivers. Unlike what happened with Vista.
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You assign drive letters to volumes by the way.
"Best Practices", Event viewer, host file, perfmon, antivirus, anti-spyware, Live CD's, backups, are in my top 10
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Finally got connected to the Sata drive/ controller.
Found listing in device manager (Storage Volume)
When I opened it, it showed 'Unknown Device'
chose update software/driver
tried update automatically, was a NO-Go
then: Browse my computer for driver software: it defaulted to Generic drive/volume, clicked OK and the drive showed in Explorer and my computer.All is well
I like win7, far better than Vista....
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Yes I did,
the Storage Volume in (Device manager) did not show any problems (yellow or red) but when I opened it it showed 'unknown device' changed it to Generic drive, and immediatly it showed in Windows explorer and in administrative tools/computer management/disk management :-))Seems odd it did not install it as a genereic device when the os was installed
OTOH it only a beta
BTW all the automatic update test files installed fine
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