After Win8.1 is installed, the hard disk becomes a portable device. Analysis of the cause

After the Win8.1 is installed, the hard disk becomes a portable device. Analysis and Solution New things often do not make people happy. Some netizens installed Win8.1, after installing their own backup official network driver, the fate happened, and the hard disk became a portable device. As shown below. This situation should be caused by the driver version is too old, such as this friend, because the SATA AHCI controller driver version is too old. It seems that the old driver is not necessary for a large backup! The solution is very simple. Download and install the official website SATA AHCI controller driver to solve!

Here is the Lenovo computer as an example

After the first step, download and decompress, the driver will automatically extract to C:\\DRIVERS\\WIN \\IRST (It is best to pay attention to the installation path when installing the driver, so that it can't be found when it is used, or it is wrong because the operation version is different, and the location is different)

Step 2, open the device manager , opening the IDE ATA /ATAPI controller, double-click the Intel (R) X (specifically see you motherboard algebraic) Series Chipset Family SATA AHCI controller

a third step, the drive properties dialog box, clicking & ldquo ; driver & rdquo; tab, find and click & ldquo; update drivers & rdquo;

the fourth step, the update driver software interface, do not choose to automatically search, click to select & ldquo; Browse my computer for driver software & rdquo;

the fifth step, the next screen click on the & ldquo; View & rdquo ;, find just the installed directory C: \\ dRIVERS \\ WIN \\ IRST (Note Selecting " includes subfolders "), and then click Next

sixth! Restart the computer

After installing the hard drive become Win8.1 portable device to analyze and solve the cause of the contents of approaches, I hope for your help!