Tried eSATA drive in another Vista system, acts same way

I had a chance to connect this same eSATA drive to another Premium Vista
system. It acts the same way: Vista doesn't see it unless the bios saw it
upon boot.

Besides for Will, has anyone tried bringing an eSATA drive online after
Vista is booted? As I mentioned, XP Pro handled it perfectly.

Thanks,

Norm

"Captain Norm" <thecaptain101@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:59396D53-07E2-4801-BC09-0AF13A01E792@microsoft.com...
>I had a chance to connect this same eSATA drive to another Premium Vista
>system. It acts the same way: Vista doesn't see it unless the bios saw it
>upon boot.
>
> Besides for Will, has anyone tried bringing an eSATA drive online after
> Vista is booted? As I mentioned, XP Pro handled it perfectly.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Norm



Just for the record turned it on and Autoplay appeared within a few seconds.

My esata device is a Next Star 3 enclosure with a 250 gig Maxtore Hard drive

btw: my m/b has an external sata connector on the back panel and I had to do
something off orginally to get Vista to see it. It had something to do with
the Silicon Serial ATA RAID connector in the Bios and I think it had to do
with setting it to sata2 instead of raid mode

If you still have the problem, with an Asus board you need to install the
RAID drivers from JMicron in order to allow Vista to recognize the drive as
plyg and play. I had the same problem. The driver to use will be based on
your chip set.

"Captain Norm" wrote:

> I had a chance to connect this same eSATA drive to another Premium Vista
> system. It acts the same way: Vista doesn't see it unless the bios saw it
> upon boot.
>
> Besides for Will, has anyone tried bringing an eSATA drive online after
> Vista is booted? As I mentioned, XP Pro handled it perfectly.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Norm
>