my second hard drive is now unknown device. Archived from groups: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell () Ok heres my problem yesterday i went and got a new fan for my dell dimension 8200 from compusa. upon putting everything back together my computer can no longer see...

am truly at a loss as to why this second hard drive is not recognized. When I set the secondary drive to "AUTO" instead of "OFF" in BIOS, the BIOS says the drive is "unknown." One question -- suppose I tried to put in a hard drive that is too large for...

boot file and tried just about everything else i can think of. Currently, my hard drives are "unknown devices" and it simply says "an error occured during the installation of the device, driver is not intended for this platform." Any ideas on how to fix...

this board and it seemed to work fine , here's how i attempted to do it: Keep in mind all of these drives are/were connected to the ICH9R chipset SATA ports 1. WD 500 gb just a single OS drive 2. WD 500 gb * 2 as a RAID 1 pair. I saw the RAID status...

Checked Device management for a sign of the drive ( Shows up in unknown devices!! .. As a SCSI Drive..? Its SATA ) 4. Uninstalled it from the device mangement, on reboot the drive is there!! But vista then asks me for a system restart ( as if a new driver...

The drive is set up and installed with XP with no problem. Vista64 list the drive in the device manager under disk drives but starts the new hardware wizard, which says no driver can be located. It then list an unknown device. The drive is still listed...

the drive, so I'm confused by your statement that it says "Unknown Device". Is that really what it says in the BIOS Setup screens? Or, is this message coming up somewhere else? If the "Unknown Device" message is coming up in BIOS Setup, I'd worry that the...

it did not recognize any drive but the floppy. All it says is drive 0 not found or drive 1 not found. It asks me to press f1 to continue but I can't. I went into setup and set all the drives to auto but then it shows unknown device. All cables as far as...

USB 2.0 20GB Hard Drive, that up until yesterday, > worked perfectly. It seems it stopped working after I > did a Windows Update. Now, the drive is shown in Device> Manager as an Unknown Device under the USB Controllers. > When I try to reinstall the...

old laptop >> which now runs Knoppix. Here is the problem though, saved the drivers >> from the hard drive before fdisking the drive, but there is a driver >> missing for some PCI device. Anybody have an idea what it is? I have >> every other device...