Vista can't see my ATA's?

[karkfump]

I just did my first install of Vista home premium (64 bit) on a Gigabyte GA-K8N Ultra (AMD 64) and my normal hard drive obviously accepted the installation, but I have three Serial ATA hard drives attached right now and they show up in the bios, but not in "My computer" once I get logged on. I am totally new to ATA's and I am not tyring to run any kind of raid array or anything like this, just bought one by accident, and trying to access the data of two more for backup purposes. Any Clues?

I have read about sevral having these issues, but haven't seen a solution. I did install the newest nforce 4 64 bit amd drivers as well, but this didn't get me over the hump either.

[Zefram]

If those hdd showed up in the device manager and not in 'computer', those harddrives need to be formatted and initialized.............

Karkfump, HERE A TUTORIAL (http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/troubleshooting_assistance/internal_drive_interfaces/windows-vista) on how to format HDD in windows Vista ;)

[karkfump]

I can't see them in my device manager. I can see them when I enter the raid setup in the bios, but I am clueless to the raid setup. I am used to XP setups with normal IDE drives? I was able to access the same ATA drives when I hooked them up to my XP system, just not on this pc with the Vista OS Installed.

[stlouis1]

it sounds like you need to load vista compatible raid drivers for the controller. one place you saying they're ATA drives, but then you mention raid bios, thats two seperate things

ie, if its an NVidia controller, get nvidia raid controller drivers

if you like, i started trying to bundle some common controller drivers for everyone at work since we support vista and this is one of the questions we get cuz some ppl dont do their research before hand (not trying to get offensive)

but heres (http://geocities.com/syntheticman6/host/nVidia_Ati_Via_Silicon_SiS_SATA_Drivers.zip) the link, just extract it to a flash drive if you have on and try to update drivers for any unknown devices, let it search automativaly

if it finds a driver, you'll have a choise between a sata, or raid driver, if you do have a raid, you need to choose accordingly. if you have an IDE raid controller, if vista doesnt support it native, you might just be out of luck for something that old. or theres just no driver for it yet

another place to start would be windows updates, you have no idea how many drivers are available on windows update, all you have to do is search update in your start menu, and there it is, open that, check for updates, see whats available

another situation i've seen with something like this, dynamic drive setups from XP, are not compatible with vista, if you had a dynamic drive in XP (software raid essentially), vista will not read it, it uses its own formatting, they are no compatible

but it sounds like a driver issue from what you said