I get my new computer built today (Core 2 Quad, 4 gigs DDR2800, 750w PSU etc etc) and bring it home. I pop the Vista DVD in, and start setup.
Upgrade is grayed out as usual so I hit custom. It displays the window that asks which partition I want, and nothing is there. At the bottom it says "no hard drive found" or similar. Then it asks me to load a driver. It scans the motherboard driver CD and comes up with nothing, so I manually try every folder and still nothing. I untick "hide incompatible drivers" and still nothing.
I plug in the other computer, browse the CD, and the chipset INFs are apparently in an exe. I try to run the exe from a command prompt via system repair in setup, but it wont let me leave the windows temp directory (X:/).
I loaded optimized defaults in the bios. nothing. I loaded the fail safe defaults in the bios. nothing. I enabled AHCI. still wont recognize.
HD is a seagate barracuda 7200.11.
How do I get my chipset drivers installed so Vista setup will recognize my hard drive, so I can format it and install the OS? I'm dying over here.
Upgrade is grayed out as usual so I hit custom. It displays the window that asks which partition I want, and nothing is there. At the bottom it says "no hard drive found" or similar. Then it asks me to load a driver. It scans the motherboard driver CD and comes up with nothing, so I manually try every folder and still nothing. I untick "hide incompatible drivers" and still nothing.
I plug in the other computer, browse the CD, and the chipset INFs are apparently in an exe. I try to run the exe from a command prompt via system repair in setup, but it wont let me leave the windows temp directory (X:/).
I loaded optimized defaults in the bios. nothing. I loaded the fail safe defaults in the bios. nothing. I enabled AHCI. still wont recognize.
HD is a seagate barracuda 7200.11.
How do I get my chipset drivers installed so Vista setup will recognize my hard drive, so I can format it and install the OS? I'm dying over here.
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