SATA is just a new way of attaching "fixed" drives. E-SATA is an external connection that is shielded (uses shielded cable), while internal SATA connections are unshielded. While in principle, one could make such connections "removable" (or whatever), I don't think it is done by default. Is Vista supposed to make all SATA drives removable? Just those for which the motherboard supports it?
Fred Holmes At 08:19 PM 7/23/2008, mike wrote: >I just hooked up a new 500 gig esata II drive to my vista 64 box. I have >the correct driver installed but the drive isn't showing up in the list for >drives available to be safely removed. Am I missing a setting? Perhaps a >BIOS setting? RAID is not enabled on the box. > >Mike ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
