Posted: 9/23/2009 9:16:53 PM EDT
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Got a new hard drive today: 500gn Seagate barracud SATA drive.
Want to use it as my only drive. Hooked it up, went to install Vista 32 and Vista Install does not recognize it. Boot up sequence recognizes it, BIOS recognizes it, just not Vista install. Odly, the drive I have had is also a SATA and recognizes fine even through Vista install. So, hooked both drives up, booted to Vista on original, installed Seagate utility and it installed the drive under vista. Shutdown, pull original drive out try to install Vista, no joy. So, I have searched for updated SATA drivers for my motherboard but no joy (cannot find drivers for SATA) for my ASROCk Conroe 945g-DVI Any ideas? |
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You need to find the SATA drivers for your motherboard. Once you have them, add them to a floppy if you have one or a usb thumb drive.
During the install Vista will ask where you want to install it. There is an option on the lower portion of the screen to load drivers. Click that, load your SATA drivers then choose the drive. If you can't find your SATA drivers, go into the BIOS and set your SATA ports to IDE mode. Install Vista and then switch them back to SATA mode. |
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You need to find the SATA drivers for your motherboard. Once you have them, add them to a floppy if you have one or a usb thumb drive. During the install Vista will ask where you want to install it. There is an option on the lower portion of the screen to load drivers. Click that, load your SATA drivers then choose the drive. This... Chances are your Vista disk doesn't have the SATA drivers. I know XP and Server 2003 do not! 
You can also use a tool called N-Lite (not sure of the spelling, Google it). You'll be able to slip stream your driver into a newly created Vista disk. It's fairly direct. It will prompt you for the drivers you want add, then ask for your OEM disk, it will then create a newly bootable disk with your drivers built in... Obviously you'll need a blank disk and a burner. (I think Vista is DVD, not CD) |
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Try these.
They are the Intel drivers that your chipset is based on. No guarantee it will work but it's worth a shot. |
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... If you can't find your SATA drivers, go into the BIOS and set your SATA ports to IDE mode. Install Vista and then switch them back to SATA mode. this. i had the same thing with win2003 server recently. no floppy drive, so i couldn't use drivers if i could find them. went the slipstream route, and win2003 still couldn't see the drive. found the setting in the bios, sometimes it is under SATA or RAID settings, and your choices will be "RAID" or "IDE" modes. set it to IDE and you hopefully will be GTG. |
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So, those drivers did not work......was a good try though!
Cannot find anywhere to swap between RAID and IDE. Only thing I can find is: IDE CONFIGURATION Choices are: Enhanced (default), Compatiable, Disabled Have tried both compatiable and enhanced, guess I am now off to try disabled, but I get the feeling that will just totally disable to drives LOL FUCK First time I have ever been stymied on working on a PC lol |
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Why not just use the drive as a slave. I'm going to assume you need storage for digital pictures, home movies, pr0n, etc...etc... Unless you partition a 500gb drive for OS/Applications and storage, and just run a single 500gb c:\, you going to have a LOT of fun trying to clean in when things slow down.
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Unless you partition a 500gb drive for OS/Applications and storage, and just run a single 500gb c:\, you going to have a LOT of fun trying to clean in when things slow down. Patch, why are you not wanting to partition the disk and then install your OS on the first partition? |
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My main HD is in the process of dying a painful death..........not stable at all any more......crashing 3-4 times a day with disc errors.......yes, have reformatted and such.
Vista on the normal drive does not even recognize new HD BS......I would do that but the Vista installation does not find the new HD.......but it is recognized in BIOS.............. |
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My main HD is in the process of dying a painful death..........not stable at all any more......crashing 3-4 times a day with disc errors.......yes, have reformatted and such. Vista on the normal drive does not even recognize new HD BS......I would do that but the Vista installation does not find the new HD.......but it is recognized in BIOS.............. Makes sense! ETA: Can you slave the drive, boot the computer on the old drive, and see the new drive as a slave? Just because BIOS can see a drive, doesn't mean the drive is working properly. Other thought is, if the computer recognizes the drive and it works, clone the old drive to the new one, the make the new one the master and remove the old drive. That way there is no need to reinstall Vista. ... Or upgrade to XP! 
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You need to go here.
Download the correct installation guide for your drive. You will probably have to download the correct copy of their software "DiskWizard" to format your drive. Vulcan94 |
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(sigh)
Thanks for the ideas guys but nothing is not working. BIOS shows drive. I can get both drives up, get to windows, use the software that came with the HD and install it under Vista. Then I go to install vista on it and once again, it asks for the damn drivers so no go. Reboot, boot to Vista install, drive does not show up. Have no drivers to load for it.......... Have tried it on every SATA port. Book for the drive says for Vista I need to load the SATA host drivers which i cannot find anywhere................ time to start shooting shit |
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So...........here is where I am................
Appears old HD was NOT the issue.......hahahaha! Go figure. New MB and new AMD x3 core proscessor and all is installing on the old drive just well! Thank god for Fry's gift cards LOLOLOL. Also got an Nvidia 1gig video card while I was at it............not bad for $350 in gift cards to Fry's! New HD I got yesterday still would not let Vista install..........would hang up at 3 percent while expanding install files............this time though the new MB was allowing windows to see the HD. Plus, with new board I had the correct drivers, but still could not get an install......blue screen of death yacking at me about hardware. Then I decided since old drive was ok i would use the new big one as secondary......odly though, adding it would majorily slow down the boot up sequence......big time! So right now it is unhooked. going to get all the new gear set up and then hook it back up and see if i can add it under vista......I dunno................ Mayhaps it was just a bad drive???? Hmmmmm.,.........would suck since the kids tossed out the box lol Any ideas how to test and see if it is good? |
