Windows Vista and SATA Drives

[NikonSanz]

Stopped watching 5 mins in

ermmm, how about uninstalling the windows updates via add remove programs, or doing a system restore back to a point before the updates took place and see if that resolves the issue. Always set windows updates up NOT TO INSTALL AUTOMATICALLY, you ideally need to check the updates and what the fuck they are before you install them.

How the fuck can you start talking about a motherboard issue, when the basic troubleshooting steps havent even been taken yet.

[goofystarwars]

gay

[spiro37]

rofl he heard windows vista and had an instant /facepalm moment

[kpappletech]

Get a Mac

Or Windows 7

kp

[PRODVDi]

OMG he made a prophecy for Win7 and it was mostly true O_O

[plasticsandvich92]

i know this is out of topic but i need your help

i downloaded the RC windows 7 and now i want to install windows XP on my machine i dont know where to start could you please help me

if anyone can help me please send me a private message

thanks

[computerpro101]

Well,

you could:

1. Reinstall Vista

2. Uninstall Updates (Control Panel/Add+Remove Programs)

3. Get a New Hard Drive

[GamersRage]

there not sata drives there satan drives

[Zemnexx]

got the same thing on XP after installing Nforce motherboard drivers, its was a program by Nvidia that manages your drives for you and registers them as removable drives, with the program, it made them hot swappable, without it, they registered as regular drives, it was kinda annoying to me so i just disable installing that management program while installing the mobo drivers

[skyweezynU]

i'm already using windows 7 . good OS

[uvmedraco]

what build?

[Dudex58]

This guy is dumb vista put it as a removable device, because lets say u were gonna put a better dvd player u would uninstall the dvd reader,so it is a removable device

[crippanda6]

sata is hot swappable, i would say thats all it is

[Hunger4Power]

get windows 7 beta 1 and shut up yall

its TOO gud

[darkmastachief]

windows 7 wasnt out when the video was made!

[borderjumper67]

thank god vista is more stable

[jamesnuutinen]

same the only problem with vista i have is i need more ram lol.... cause vista loves its ram >.>

[socom324]

You are handicap thats what we call in the community "avoiding the problem" not "fixing the problem" next time you try to call someone a joke learn how to fix shit before you start shit.

[jjhawthor]

I've been fixing computers for 20 years. Amiga, PC, and Mac. Again, I say: "The PC worked before applying updates". Hm' Looks like the update screwed it up, which is common when applying multiple updates in Windows, because most users will ignore the "Restart" message and will continue with the updates. Like I said, a "PE" disk can confirm a hardware issue like this easily. This kind of "Poke and Hope" troubleshooting shows that you have no idea of what your talking about.

[NikonSanz]

@jjhawthor spot on with everything you have said.

[sgtmas2006]

first of all you are a ass we are geeks so get the fuck out of here

[jjhawthor]

I'm and educated ass with 15 Years Application and Driver development on Windows OS's. 5 Years Electronic Circuit design. You are a geek that thinks he knows something, but the reality is, you use poke and hope troubleshooting as well. Maybe you and Pirillo should apply for the Geek Squad and tag team each other.

[fatbastard135]

K then in your opinion.. for gaming should i go to windows vista or stay XP

[B1U3P5YCH0]

That happened to me in xp now in vista lol

[thefsxflyer]

How in the world! All these people have trouble with vista... I have NONE! I have vista home premium

[PCG4M1NGRTW]

thefsxflyer

same with me

no problems at all

I love vista!

vista ultimate 64bit

[thefsxflyer]

Ya. I don't understand. Vista is better looking and not as boring as XP. XP looks boring and the folders are not setup as well as Vista. I hate Chris when he nags about Vista.

[g33kTube]

I am Indian. how may i helpp yu?

[PurushaDesa]

Hah! As soon as Chris hears Vista, it's like you've shown the vampire garlic. We all know of his own tortured history with it.

[nibungbiru]

please...my laptop have are problem.can't setup windows xp cause before i'm install vista windows.now i want to repair my laptop.please explain to me..ok

[foxxchasser1]

i had the same problem

[forktreeproducts]

this never happened to me....

[TonayD]

I've never heard of this before - I have Vista installed on multiple Dell machines, as well as boxes with nforce motherboards. Once he applies SP1 that might fix it.

[reinholder]

Does this guy actually know what he's talking about? o0

[dtrix92]

I don't think he does. (the caller)

[dotcomboy11]

Chris always knows what he is talking about lol

Dotcomboy11

[fullekin]

I just get this dell inspiron 531 with windows vista home premium, all the plugs for hard drive or dvd drive are sata even for the power. I installed a sata dvd drive and it is not recognized help!!!!

[dtrix92]

try plugging it into another sata port on you motherboard.

[anerisgreat]

My hard drive (I used vista) was SATA and 30GB of storage just POOFED away.

[TalesOfWar]

You always lose some space when you format a drive, assuming that's what you mean. If you have a 160gb drive it'll typically be 150gb when formatted, it' just the way binary works.

[anerisgreat]

No, no format. Just, lost a ton of space. Did nothing to it. Woke up one day and POOF it's there. (Excuse me for the overuse of POOF). It was a 110 gig hard drive, and suddenly it told me I was using all of it up (30 gigs gone, another 50 gigs for backup which I couldn't delete (I found it out after they backed everything up on a new hard drive, the "invisible" file was just SITTING there. And I was genuinely using 30 gigs). NOT a format issue.

[TalesOfWar]

Odd, sounds like it partitioned itself without adding a file system so it can be used. I've seen it happen before but I did it myself by mistake and not the comp doing an "oh I'll do it for fun without being told!" thing.

[anerisgreat]

Computer guy who replaced the hard drive said it happens to one third of the hard drives. I kind of doubt that... Hard drive is still usable (gonna convert it into an external hard drive) it's just that I would like to have a ton of memory.

[computergeek161]

First make sure that it is pluged in and the cables are in right! And then get access to an account with admin rights

Go to administrative tools and go to computer management. Goto storage , Disk management. Then on the bottom find your disk and say repartition it. or do what you want but at the end you need to right click on it and say Change drive letter and path and give it a letter... then goto windows explorer (not internet explorer) and it should be in there

[anerisgreat]

Well the drive is sitting on my desk, I am running XP of another hard drive that my computer tech guy put in for me. It's great now, no probs. But I am gonna hook it up as an external drive (once my cables get here), if it still has the problem I will follow your advice. Thanks!

[splashdown876]

you are such a computer nerd

[splashdown876]

you are such a computer nerd

[TalesOfWar]

My SATA drives come up in the "safely remove hardware" list too, I'm running XP. I just think Microsoft are slacking with the whole SATA thing, maybe it's set up so it's classed as "removeable" because you can get eSATA and the system can't actually distinguish between internal or external seeing as technically there isn't as far as connections go.

[sonicgear93]

I have vista and my hard disk is also shown as removable device. Its normal and even if you click safely remove, it will not remove them. This is also the same on XP.

[Alex13N]

Hahahahaha xD The way Chris takes his head down the second he says "Vista" xD

[753159852456sage]

I'm running XP and it thought my SATA Hard Drive was a removable device

[defaultname365]

Windows Vista is great. Looking each and every issue you are facing, there is a reason for it. Let's say, Internet Explorer 7 constantly crashes. By emptying the cache and deleting browsing history, it puts less load on the browser. Using Disk Cleanup greatly improves stability of Internet Explorer 7.

As for sluggishness, there is nothing else to blame except hardware. You need the right hardware to run Vista. Even if you do have a low-end machine, using Vista great improves security.

Thanks.

[Tutchmydog]

what is vista? an operating system seperate from windows xp? or another internet application like internet explorer and mozilla?

[Tutchmydog]

what is vista? an operating system seperate from windows xp? or another internet application like internet explorer and mozilla?

[Tutchmydog]

what is vista? an operating system seperate from windows xp? or another internet application like internet explorer and mozilla?

[niksinthe916]

dude vista is an os duh lol if u cant find that out dont even try to run it lol

[gman649]

vista is awsome

[charlie1der]

god does chris look tired. i will stick with xp for quite a while from all the horror stories i am hearing about vista.

[robzdabomb]

I got my grandparents a new computer with vista and a SATA HDD and a USB device with "0bytes" of space pops up in the removeable storage, its whack

[catpiont]

u guys should just admetit vista is awsome im using it now IT IS AWSOME!!!!!!!!!!there is nothing rong wid it

[Ravlor88]

No. It is not. For several reasons.

[nyczpro]

i remembered when i installed windows update on my 680i/vista i couldnt get online. I went onto a intel 35 chipset it solved the problem lol

[berbenuik]

Sata is not hot-swappable in a home users computer. Have you ever tried actualy unpluging a sata drive while the computer is on? It dosnt work. Sata is hotswapable in very high end server computers with the corect controller cards but not in a home users computer. Same goes for esata.

[retepvosnul]

I could be that he is clueless.

[ui334]

I've never seen a chat room kick so many people. In the chat at your website, for the last 2 days you all have just been kicking and banning innocent people left and right. Can't even ask a simple question, without the moderators complaining every 3 lines about someone using CAPS, or someone saying the same thing twice, or using a nick they don't like. Don't waste your time at this site, They hate free speech. You will most likely end up being banned for having an opinion.

[redneckboy6983]

whats is voice???

[jax1492]

the caller has no problem all sata drives are hot swappable, chris should know this.

[cphellp]

that was nice to give him voice :) nice job chris

[ECWNET]

God, Vista is a raging piece of garbage. A few of my friends that got it downgraded to XP. I'll stick to my Mac thank you very much.

[edwin768]

Ok I LOVE XP but would upgrade to Vista

[XxXxAngel69xXxX]

its cus sata and sata2 are plug n play.......... its not a problem

[sjefen6]

My 3 year old pc has done that since I got it, is that an issue?

[widerangledotcom]

no... 2009/2010.

[computergeek161]

Windows vista thinks the dvd rom drive is a removable device because it truely has removable disks for it. The hard drive is a sada so it is going to see it as a removable disk drve if the mother board it a ide based motherboard... Thanks

[danseymour89]

isn't it SATA not SADA?

[a1gaius]

poor chris...

[MIDNIGHTRIDER775]

Do you people even have Vista? Did you try it yourself? Or just listen to what a gekk says who has no clue about hardware?

Shit it pisses me off so much. I build, fix, upgrade and configure PCs since over 10 years. And I use Vista myself for 6 months and it works perfect! I wouldnt EVER wanna go back to XP!

[sirfatalx]

Yeah, I just changed to Vista Business 32 bit and have no problems at all. I think people just assume Vista is bad, do not try Vista themselves, and just assume is a horrible OS. It auto detects your drivers, I don't get how people say how drivers suck with it.

[MIDNIGHTRIDER775]

Exactly, even installs the drivers by itself and if it cant do that. It will give you an exact list of what you need and even a download link to the latest version of it!

I am back on XP right now cause I needed some files and I cant believe how much it sucks compared to Vista!

So everyone out there, dont listen to what some geek says, go try it yoruself!

[TGseason10]

Windows Vista is something I don't like.

I still use XP.

[sirfatalx]

Whats wrong with Vista? Don't say you do not like it without saying why.

[WillEvansMedia]

Ive got the same issue. Not really a problem as long as you note all divice names so you dont accidentally unmount the drives as opposed to the media you wish to remove. Amazing as when windows vista was mentioned, his facial expression summed it up perfectly and infact is the same I pull whenever mentions it in college.

[DefconComputers]

This is normal behavior for an nForce chipset with SATA drives. Even on XP, allowing you install your chipset drivers.

[howdoiquityou2006]

mine is showing that external device with my printer i had issues but it stil functions :)

[yozukidrive]

After updating Windows Vista, I've sometimes gotton something similiar to this with different results. Drive letters would be rearranged, Vista would have issues with a device driver etc. The fix I found was to simply reinstall the whole shebang and try again.

[KCR07UK]

After updating in Vista, Sound card doesn't work, video card driver is dodgy.

[tarasxxx]

blablablablablablablabla

[darklion55]

the internet stopped working for a lot of ppl

its working now tho

[WiiTalk]

I was on Chris's live stream for a full 18 hours!

[guest2424]

You can check how long the name has been registered on the wyldryde server as additional information to help make the decision.

[mtregi]

what's "voice"?

[Hypothesard]

in IRC Channel, having "Voice status" allow you to write and being red, if you're not "voiced" you're writtings 're going directly into the void

[mykeman83]

if you dont want to get any problems with windows vista, buy an "already ready" windows vista computer. If you upgrade, you will have problems with hardware drivers problems. I dont know why windows hurried up to release vista knowing very well that the os lacks a lot of drivers?

[mykeman83]

if you dont want to get any problems with windows vista, buy an "already ready" windows vista computer. If you upgrade, you will have problems with hardware drivers problems. I dont know why windows hurried up to release vista knowing very well that the os lacks a lot of drivers?

[zytekfan]

NVIDIA chipsets hate SATA DVD drives.

And never run RAID and an SATA DVD.

[nunikili]

whats the deal about having voice ? whats the point ?

[frednils001]

ok ............