Vista not recognizing removable drive

Remove the USB removable device before you turn on the system. You may insert the device after Windows Vista installation starts. Error message when you try to install Windows Vista: "Windows is unable to find a system volume which meets its criteria for installation".

Visit our Microsoft Answers Feedback Forum and let us know what you think. Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. Bill Bernard. I bought two gig sata drives. In installed them as a 5th and 6th drive as back up and file storage.

I wasn't able to see them in my computer so went into disk management and formatted and created drive letters.

Rebooted and still everything looked great. Then I decided to just clone the OS onto my new sata, cloning was successful it booted up and the desktop showed up and then all of a sudden a prompt showed up saying that i had a pirated OS.

Which that is impossible as i paid for the OS. I then had to reboot as for some reason i wasn't able to do certain things and now I wasn't able to boot up as it said that there was a corrupted. Well I wasn't a happy camper and am furious as now I can't access my drives. So i was going to reinstall windows I tried setting up raid but for some reason the drive doesn't even show up in the bios, so i disabled the raid, now the drives show up in the bios, so i go to install windows and the drives are not showing up in the window where to install the drive.

I called my motherboard company and they said that it wasn't the motherboard, the, bios are up to date, i called wester digital and they said that it's a vista problem, so they told me to call microsoft, and of course microsoft won't help you unless you pay them.

Does anyone know why vista won't recognize my new sata drives? It shows it under portable devices. Only item under portable devices is my phone.

But when I go to driver properties it still tells me that the device isn't working properly. So my system is telling me two different things at once. Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro?

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I am more than happy to answer any further questions concerning this issue I am having. Tuesday, April 29, PM. Go into a command prompt.