windows not seeing drive

[Mclovin44]

ok, I bought a new sammy drive to use as a game ripper. I've flashed the 0800 to it and got success. My problem is it won't mount in windows. I've heard about hotplugging, but not sure..? can someone explain what and when/where to do this hotplug.

[chrislfc]

when you star up the computer go in to bios and see if the drive shows up i set my 0800 dive as the one 2 boot off that work for me

[Mclovin44]

I don't see it in there. the flash went fine, but the drive isn't mounting. windows sees the via card but no drive. I think I'm just missing a step somewhere...

[chrislfc]

do you have a on board sata if so try connecting it to that and see if it mounts and maybe try reflashing

[Mclovin44]

no onboard sata that I can see

[chrislfc]

did you delete or rename the vimrad driver if so try putting them backon you may need to reinstall

[Mclovin44]

yes I renamed the viamraid driver when the card was installed. I have flashed ixtreme firmwares multiple times on diff drives all successful. do you need the viamraid driver installed to mount the 0800 drive?

[chrislfc]

i don't know but it worth a try i used on board sata to mount my drive

[Mclovin44]

Do you know anything about the hot plugging procedure? I saw on cofree's vid tutorial that he had to do this on 1 of his comp. I want to try that too, but don't know how.

[chrislfc]

am not 100% but i think his pc freezes if he has the drive connected when he starts it up he pluged it in the sata in when he gets to the windows logo if i remember correctly