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From: Moloch on 1 Feb 2008 07:38 Hello! I recently purchased a usb and esata drive. However, the esata didn't seem to work. It only showed up in explorer when I went to disk management and checked for new hardware. This is a bit troublesome to do this everytime you boot up, so I thought to myself, 'this should be much easier!' Download: Here you can download 'DevCon'. It's a replacement for your diskmanagement, and all commandline based. It is made by Microsoft and the about can be found here (download as well) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311272 You unzip the file to c:\program files\devcon There will be 2 folders there, i386 and ia64. i386 is for x86 and ia64 is of course for 64-bit OS. Download: http://rapidshare.com/files/87311915/rescan.bat (.bat Code: @echo off devcon.exe rescan) Put this file in either i386 if your on 32 bit or in ia64 if your on 64-bit. If you don't know what OS you have, you have 32-bit wink.gif. Then tell your OS to execute this bat file every time it boots. Do this by pasting a shortcut to rescan.bat into C:\Documents and Settings \All Users\Start Menu\Programs. Now it will scan for changes in the hardware every boot up. You have to put on the disk before you start your computer. If you forget that pretty often, make a shortcut on the desktop. You can run that any time you like. If you use your disk only once in a while, you can make a shortcut to your desktop, and let it only run when you want to. Don't know if it helps anyone, it took me a lot of searching to come to this solution. It's not perfect, but it takes up little time and most important: It works! Keep up the good work! Greets, Moloch
From: Calab on 1 Feb 2008 07:43 "Moloch" <m.van.haeren(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:90863a7a-c74f-44b8-ae12-adf5387ed004(a)i12g2000prf.googlegroups.com... > Hello! > > I recently purchased a usb and esata drive. However, the esata didn't > seem to work. It only showed up in explorer when I went to disk > management and checked for new hardware. This is a bit troublesome to > do this everytime you boot up, so I thought to myself, 'this should be > much easier!' This is normal. Even though SATA was designed as a hotswappable connection, many mainboard manufacturers don't actually support hotswapping.
From: kony on 1 Feb 2008 15:41
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:38:03 -0800 (PST), Moloch <m.van.haeren(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Hello! > >I recently purchased a usb and esata drive. However, the esata didn't >seem to work. It only showed up in explorer when I went to disk >management and checked for new hardware. This is a bit troublesome to >do this everytime you boot up, so I thought to myself, 'this should be >much easier!' Often boards with SATA have raid functionality and a raid manager software (can be installed, regardless of whether the drive is a member of a RAID array) which may allow rescanning and mounting the drive. |