P-7811 FX Hard Drive Not Recognized by Acronis or Partition Magic

I have been trying to do a reinstall of my P-7811 FX, and make hard drive partitons. I used Windows Vista initially to make one partition and installed Vista. Afterwards I wanted to repartition.

Problem is that neither Acronis nor Partition Magic with DOS boot (CD-ROM) recognizes the hard drive.

GParted recognized it, but then my Vista partition wouldn't load.

I plan on swapping out the 200GB for a 320GB soon, but want to make sure I can make an image or do a disk to disk copy.

Acronis in Windows seems to work ok though.

Any suggestions?

 

Well, the problem is that none of your tools probably know about your hard drive and your chipset.

Check out BartPE, where you can create a "Windows live CD" that has the drivers you need (specifically, SATA drivers) and burn the Acronis plug-in with it.

 

Thanks I'll give that a shot. Acronis is a pretty robust suite of apps, surprised they don't have frequent updates for new drives and chipsets.

 

I had the same problem. I used EASUES Partition Manager on a boot CD and it worked very well. Even the Acronis boot CD didn't work properly.

 

Thanks I'll try that too. Sucks that I spent money on what I thought was a robust set of utilities only to have to resort to freeware stuff.

 

Go to bios and change the HDD to ide.

 

Just went to my copy of Acronis to check and it sees both my disks, the original Seagate and the Hitachi I'm now using for boot. I have NOT tried any operations using the program yet, tho, but it seems to recognize the hardware okay. My version is build 8101, which was an 18+ hour download from their web site last week: averaged 8Kb download speed (I have a 3MB DSL connection). Anyway it's a new release and may help if you're on the older version.