Windows installer doesnt recognize hard drive.

[myles]

Im trying to do a clean install of Vista Ultimate. When i load the installer it doesnt recognize my harddrive, although the bios sees it and Seatools from seagate as well. I have formatted it through the dos command off the cd. Any ideas why the installer dosnt see it?

 

[badge]

You might try booting to the Vista installation DVD and let Vista format the drive.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/help/install-reinstall-uninstall

 

[Zoron]

May have to load the driver via F6 and a USB key.

 

[badge]

Vista has been known to not recognize SATA hard drives. It happened to me so I booted to an XP installation disk and that disk found the hard drive. I formatted it with XP and installed Vista no problem. It was a new, never used SATA HD.

 

[Jonmor68]

Check bios setting for pata compatability mode and set it to that, save settings and try again.