Installing Vista On SATA Drive. Hi, Last few months I installed Vista Ultimate on my new Seagate SATA II 500GB drive. The installation went smooth without any problem till today. Last week, a friend of mine bought a new PC and tried to install XP on it....

from the Install disk before giving you a message that it failed to find a hard drive to use. Even if XP Install failed to boot because the optical is being used as a true SATA device (XP has no driver for this), Vista Install DOES have SATA drivers and should...

perfectly. I want to know why is this? I thought a sata hard drive would be recognize at vista install on native ide, but gigabyte told me achi and im confused why this is. . I had a hard time figuring out why i couldn't install vista my sata seagate HD on...

vista installed on F: (sata drive). OK... had C: and D: drives (PATA both). Nephew shut down pc during windows updates installation, corrupted XP Pro SP2 install. Decided to upgrade to Vista. Bought a new SATA drive, installed with other two drives. Installed...

found. I'm not sure if this fully relates but a friend of mine had issues installing Vista from a SATA optical drive onto a RAID. We have the ASUS M2N 32 Delux board which has an NVIDIA RAID controller. Reading the manual we discovered that the SATA controller...

the first drive I tried before. That worked. Did you install vista from xp? The problem with that is xp may see your drive but when you reboot with vista it may not see the drive and crash. 1. check if there are vista drivers for your chipset. If it all...

SATA issues alone will make installation a nightmare. Drivers are coming out but try to install Vista on a SATA drive without having the drivers in-hand because you're looking for a nightmare. Trust me, drop back to an IDE drive if you have an older computer...

My drive is not detected. I do a little bit of research and discover that SATA drivers ( is my hard-drive model) are not automatically detected by Windows. Apparently I'm supposed to "insert the installation media that came with the RAID/SATA drives and which...

Boot Problem. I just reinstalled windows on my SATA drive instead of my ide drive, I first changed the boot order in the bios to make sure the sata was first. Now the only way vista will boot is if the vista dvd is in the DVD drive. Without the disk I get a...

board and i installed vista with sata set to ahci in the bios. After the install i got problems with stuttering sound and video, and vista using 70-80% cpu and slowing down to a crawl. I checked the event log and there was nothing, i installed 12.784 versions...