ESATA not supported by Vista Home Premium 64 Bit (by 5 users)
I have a Vantec eSATA external enclosure, however I am only able to enable it
through the USB connection, does anyone have a solution as to how to get
Vista Home Premuim 64 Bit to function via the eSATA method? Any help would be
greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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Comment by Guest, posted on May 11, 2008
I have a Vantec nexstar 3 eSATA external enclosure, however I am only able to enable it
through Vista to function via the eSATA method , does anyone have a solution as to how to get
Any help would begreatly appreciated. Thanks!
Comment by Guest, posted on Apr 24, 2008
I found this interesting link:
http://stevenharman.net/blog/archive/2007/07/11/hardware-problems-my-esata--sata-ii-enclosure-wont-play.aspx
I will try it tomorrow
Comment by Guest, posted on Apr 24, 2008
The same happens also with Vista 32 Bits.(Home Premium) I had no problem with USB. Only occasionally and after a long waiting time durig start up I could make the eSata work; and windows left a lot of errors in te start up log.
Comment by Guest, posted on Nov 29, 2007
Same problem - But with Vista Ultimate 64bit edition. eSATA is not recognized...
Have tried the built in port on the motherboard - no luck
installed the eSATA port that came with the enclosure with direct connection to Motherboard SATA - no luck
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Sorry...I missed your comment that you had connected & powered up the
external enclosure before booting up and experienced the non-recognition
problem.
Anyway, try this...
In Device Manager, right-click on "Disk drives" and select the "Scan for
hardware changes" item. It probably won't work, but give it a try.
There's always the chance, of course, that the problem lies with a defective
enclosure - at least that portion of it involving SATA connectivity. We have
experienced some external USB - SATA (and eSATA) combo enclosures that
worked fine with the USB connection, but were defective with its SATA or
eSATA connection.
Anna
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Why go through the trouble/expense of getting an eSATA drive and an eSATA
enclosure and then crippling the input/output by running through a USB port?
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Regards,
Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)
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Have you got it working on an XP Machine. With the Vantecs (and Coolermasters), you MUST set your jumpers to SATA I - as the onboard controller can't handle it.I don't know how to do it on Seagates, but I had to do it to both of my WD's.
This Vista rubbish is ridiculous - *** I can't wait until this damn thing works *** then it'll be an awesome system
Comment by mc_konazz, posted on Dec 30, 2007
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klothex:
Does the non-recognition problem exist regardless of whether the external
enclosure is connected to the motherboard's eSATA port either before *or*
after bootup? Or does the problem manifest itself *only* when the enclosure
is connected *after* bootup, i.e., there's no non-recognition problem if the
device is connected prior to powering up the PC?
Anna
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approves my enclosure and hard drive to be Vista compliant. The HD is a
Seagate SATA II 500GB. Based on those results, I thought something as
commonplace as SATA and now eSATA would be fully supported by Vista. I have
also read some threads that other users are running eSATA sucessfully. There
are no Vista drivers from either Vantec or Seagate for this config. Thanks in
advance for your help.
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port on the I/O shield is always active, according to the BIOS. I have tried
turning on the enclosure before powering on the PC, the HD spins up and is
ready, however once I finish the boot sequence, Vista still does not detect
the drive. It does not appear in the MMC (management console) either. Thus I
ended up having to resort to the USB for now, have you heard of this
happening elsewhere? The mobo I have is an Asus P5Ne-SLI. Thanks in advance
if you have a suggestion.
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activated all of the SATA connections in the BIOS then you should try
plugging the device in and turning it on before you start your system.Vista
at that point should pick it up like any other HD.
peter
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