sata drivers for win7

[theog]

Can you follow this?
Note for this example, I am using a Promise Sata Controller.

 

[Nismosis]

im assuming that you want me to use the gigabyte cd for this and no...
there are no drivers on the cd that work and not in the downloads i got from the via and gigabyte site to.

 

[theog]

im assuming that you want me to use the gigabyte cd for this and no...
there are no drivers on the cd that work and not in the downloads i got from the via and gigabyte site to.

Have you tried the above method?

Use the drivers from CD,gigabyte web site or VIA web site.

 

[Nismosis]

yes.

 

[theog]

Can you post a screen shot of each driver not installing?
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[Nismosis]

the only one not installing is the raid controller

edit: but according to the cd its installed but when i search the cd like you said before it says there isnt one so......i got no idea

 

[theog]

File download from gigabyte.


unzip file


open folder


open Vista folder


Try using those drivers.

 

[Nismosis]

um ok...i did some screwing around and got something i wanted but i so hope that what im seeing is wrong

in the pic you will see my disc manager and a 465gb hdd that says it unallocated....

now even though i wanted it to show up....if im seeing what i think im seeing then its empty.

this hdd was not empty...it had about 420gb worth of work crap on it that i can not lose..

so someone please tell me that some thing is just not turned on or something

 

[theog]

Have you install the drivers, as you may need to reboot?

 

[Nismosis]

still unallocated.

please tell me you have some ideas

 

[theog]

You can try to recover any files with this app:
Recuva - Undelete, Unerase, File and Disk Recovery - Free Download

Check your hard drive with a diagnostic tools.
Hard Drive Diagnostics Tools and Utilities (Storage) - TACKtech Corp.

 

[Mellon Head]

the only one not installing is the raid controller

um ok...i did some screwing around and got something i wanted but i so hope that what im seeing is wrong

in the pic you will see my disc manager and a 465gb hdd that says it unallocated....

now even though i wanted it to show up....if im seeing what i think im seeing then its empty.

this hdd was not empty...it had about 420gb worth of work crap on it that i can not lose..

so someone please tell me that some thing is just not turned on or something

I still can't understand why you would use a RAID configuration for a single drive, but since you seem to finally have the drivers in place...

When a RAID array is set up, normally the first thing the controller does is to initialize the drive to prepare it for RAID operation. At the very least, it usually repartitions the drive so that you can then manually format it in its RAID configuration.

The bottom line is that you may not be able to recover your data. I really hope that you can, but...