vista not installing on new hard drive

wildfire4

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can't install vista onto hard drive
hi all,

Took out my old ide 160gb hard drive and swapped it for a WD 500gb (sata).

After posting it'll come to a screen that says hard disk not detected but will immediately start gathering the files for install from vista. After I enter the key for vista, I choose custom install and can see the hard drive and have the options to 'delete, format, new' etc.

No matter what I've tried, I can't go to the next screen. Clueless as to what to do. Do I have to format the hard drive from a different PC before I install an OS onto it?

asus p5q-e
e8500
4gb gskill

dvd drive is also sata but both ARE recognized in BIOS so no clue what's goin on.
 

charles48864

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You might need to go into the bios and set the drive to sata drive. Before installing vista. Might also disable drive expert in the BIOS
 

wildfire4

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yeah, have it set to boot from vista install CD. cmos reset? you mean just loading default bios settings?

@ charles

will try that
 

charles48864

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check page 3-12 in your manual on how to set drive for achi mode unless your are going to use raid mode. Make sure you are using the correct sata port also.