An odd fix to the Vista 64 Esata problem

I have been through all the problems and attempted fixes for my
Simpletech Pro 1000 Gb external drive to try to use Esata with my new
Gateway and Vista Home premium, including swapping the drive for a
replacement. No luck - it still would lock up the computer at times,
even after being recognized in My Computer, Disk Manager, Device Manager
et al. It worked with usb, firewire, and, with Vista 32 - Esata)
The Fix: Boot with both the Firewire and Esata connected! I now get
ESata speed- using HDTEST
Burst 113.5 MB/sec
Avg. Read 83.8 MB/sec
The drive was still not recognized on Boot as either an Esata drive or
firewire drive, but windows found it while I went for a cup of coffee. I
hope the brand of coffee is not the fix.
I have been using it all day - no problems.
Any explanations/comments?


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whturner