Solid State drives under 64 bit Vista

  • Thread starter Thread starter RedRockNv
  • Start date Start date
R

RedRockNv

Guest
I run a Tyan Tomcat K8E MB Opteron 180 dual core 4 gig of rammand two WD
harddrives. Operating system is Vista Home Premium 64 bit. I tried to install
a solid state drive which seemed to be recognised by by the bios but when
Vista started the SSD didn't show up under My Computer. I then tried two
SSD's in a raid they were recognised by the bios in the raid section of bios.
Once again when Vista started they didn't appear. To my mind it has to be a
Vista problem. Anyone have any ideas? Yes I updated drivers.
 
Re: Solid State drives under 64 bit Vista

Since they are seen as hard drives, did you open diskmgmt.msc? (If you like
lots of mouse clicks to do simple things, then: Start Menu, Right-click
Computer, select Manage. click Disk Management)? Were they visible there?

New hard disks need to be initialized. They don't magically get recognized
until you have a partition table on them, format them, and assign a drive
letter.

--
Charlie.
http://msmvps.com/xperts64
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/charlie.russel


"RedRockNv" <RedRockNv@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:62B44D36-F9BC-413C-8856-7D2E43B40611@microsoft.com...
>I run a Tyan Tomcat K8E MB Opteron 180 dual core 4 gig of rammand two WD
> harddrives. Operating system is Vista Home Premium 64 bit. I tried to
> install
> a solid state drive which seemed to be recognised by by the bios but when
> Vista started the SSD didn't show up under My Computer. I then tried two
> SSD's in a raid they were recognised by the bios in the raid section of
> bios.
> Once again when Vista started they didn't appear. To my mind it has to be
> a
> Vista problem. Anyone have any ideas? Yes I updated drivers.
 
Back
Top