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dirtrider   01-18-2008 at 04:48:03 AM

I recently installed vista ultimate 32bit on my hp d530 cmt. All looked good at first. I installed it on a new 250gb WD sata drive. I also have a sata dvd-rw which is all good but took up my last sata port (only 2). Now I put in a new IDE seagate drive 500gb. At first vista recognized it and then I plugged in an external drive and all hell broke loose. The external drive wouldn't recognize and I tried google and tried a few things in the windows directory with drivers and such but nothing worked. Now my ide drive won't recognize either. Oddly it IS in disk management but will not display in windows explorer. Ideas?

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dirtrider   01-18-2008 at 04:58:30 PM
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ok so now I tried removing the ide controllers from device manager and tried to let it auto reload them and that didn't work. Vista cannot find the drivers for the device even if I point it to windows\system32\drivers. HP has no chipset drivers available for vista. I tried the ones for xp and they won't install. Please HELP!

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