Analysis of the reason why the hard disk becomes a portable device after Win8.1 is installed

After the installation of Win8.1, 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. The official website to download and install SATA AHCI controller driver can solve

here to Lenovo, for example

The first step, download, unzip, the driver will automatically unzip 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.)

Step 2, open 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 properties dialog box in the hard disk Click on the "Driver" tab, find and click "Update Driver" &

Step 4, in the update driver software interface, do not select automatic search, click to select “ 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 selected " contains 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!