hardware functions. You need a 64-bit version of Windows to allocate more than ~3GBs. Yep I've got my 64-bit version. When I view my system settings through the control panel, Vista will recognize that I have 4GB of RAM plugged in, so I wonder why it isn't...

Vista not recognizing sata hard drives. I am a novice, but thought I would try building a PC anyway. I have it up and able to open bios. When I try to install Vista 64 stops because it can not recognize either of the sata hard drives that are installed....

Immediately after the SP1 install I noticed that Vista recognized the total 4GB Ram, and before it would not. Microsoft tells me that SP1 not only recognizes 4GB memory, but it now has the capability to use up to 4GB memory. Is this true, or did I misunderstand...

Patch for 32-bit Vista to recognize 4 gb of ram?. I think I heard somewhere that there is a patch for vista out that will make it recognize 4 gigs of ram, is it true at all? I'm getting a new laptop within the next day or two (in the mail now *prays to the...

Will Vista recognize old data on hard drives?. Not sure if this is the appropriate forum section, but here it goes... After 4 years, my OS hard drive finally crapped out on me. I decided that it would be a good time to do some system upgrades as well as...

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 during Vista setup, the hard drive showed up as C and had windows files on it. Vista isn't recognizing the drive as present though, which is strange. So I take it you: 1. Boot from Vista DVD 2. Select Install now 3. Select Custom(Advanced) install...

the internal drive and to do a clean install of Vista on to it. When I did this I actually got the install disc to boot and got all the way past where I put the CD key in to where it asks me where I want to install Vista to. It will not recognize the drive....

not recognizing all of my hard drive size. I have a 500GB and its only recognizing 130GB. In Vista, it recognizes all the space but not with XP. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks . Not sure whats going on but I have Vista 32bit Home...

OF FULL AND QUICK ERASE" After it was wiped clean, Vista no longer recognized the drive which i expected. I then formatted the drive using Disk Management, made the drive active. But vista will not recognize the drive so that i can see it in COMPUTER...