Re: Puzzle - External HDD Disk Management Error

Has the disk been formatted yet?
If yes with what format?
If not doesn't disk manager give you the option to format it?
Did the drive come with any of its own Vista 64 bit drivers?

"Mike311" <guest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:775cd0e57efc7d3d9ad31e2608b02dfc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I have been searching all night for help on this...any suggestions would
be greatly appreciated...

Windows Vista Home Premium 64 will not recognize external HDD
(eSATA/firewire/USB2). I started with eSATA, but that didn't work. I
tried rebooting with HDD on, etc. The disk didn't show up in Device
Manager or in My Computer, Disk Management, etc. So, I thought I'd make
sure the other connection types worked.

When I connected with firewire 400, it showed up in Device Manager
after a scan as "Disk Drive" or something generic like that. I still
couldn't make much traction because all the posts mentioned Disk
Management steps to take, but it didn't even show up there even after
rescans and refreshs.

So, I tried the USB interface. Windows immediately recognized it as USB
device and installed drivers like "normal" for USB devices. But, it
still wasn't in My Computer. This time, however, it was present in Disk
Managment but shows as Disk 1 with "Unknown" and "Not Initialized" in
box. When I right click to initialize disk, a "Initialize Disk" dialog
comes up asking for MBR or GDT partitioning. I click ok on MBR option,
then Logical Disk Manager throws the error "Incorrect function."
Details: BIOS recognizes the drive as an external HDD and I recently
installed x64 SP2.

Does anyone have any suggestions? I would be quite grateful for any
help.

Mike

Some of my Hardware:
External HDD: Simpletech Pro Drive 1 TB (eSATA/FW/USB interfaces)
Asus P6T Deluxe V2 Mobo
Intel i7
Internal HDD: SATAII Seagate 500GB x 2 in RAID 1
6GB RAM


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Mike311

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