The drive is sata and will only boot at POST only when a Windows Vista or XP install disk is in the cd drive.
I also have huge problems with sata controller. i have vista ultimate on 64 bits. while installing, it doesn't ask me for aditional drivers how the xp used to do. it just installs from head to tows. but after, I don't have drivers for sata...
helloi have an Intel 946GZ Express motherboard.I have LOTS of problems installing ANY kind of hardware (digital camera, SATA HD, simple stupid printer, EVEN DISK ON KEY!). so i conclude now into my possible problem: vista doesnt recognize my...
hey everyone new to this but have this annoying problem with vistai recently installed it on a brand new sata 320gb 16mb cache seagate drive.. all was running well till i started gettin system freezes.. and i dont know why.. i thought it might be...
I am trying to load Vista onto a clean sata hardrive. it is a 74 gig raptor.my mobo is a asus a7n8xeshortly into the install vista begins to ask for drivers for a drive and shows a dialog box whereall available drives it found should be listed...
I can't seem to find a place that sells the new Fujitsu 250gb/300 gb notebook 2.5" SATA drives. Any ideas on where I can find one?
Alienware uses the 250 GB hard drive in their upper end laptops.
I've installed an 80gb IDE hard drive (OS is installed on 40gb SATA HD)Vista recognized only 40gb out of the 80gb HD, any idea why? should I jumper the HD? what should I do in order to see 80gb?
Hey guys, I was following this guide: http://apcmag.com/5023/dual_booting_xp_with_vista
Here's the deal, I have a SATA drive with Vista on it (partitioned into 2 volumes, 20 gigs for Vista on drive C and 270 gigs for everything else). I followed the instructions up to the part where you shrink the drive. Now, I have 3 drives: 100-something gigs unformatted, 100 gigs of main stuff on DRIVE C, and WINDOWS on drive D! I want to dual boot XP, but the main priority here is NOT LOSING THE STUFF that is now on drive C (it's a LOT of stuff). Now Windows won't start! I want to:
I have four drives, one is SATA 300gb, the rest are IDE and are 40gb, 80gb and 16gb. I want to set up both XP Pro and Vista Ultimate as dual boot.
plz i tried to install vista alot of times now but no way i am using sata HD maxtor one every time i tried to install vista tell me that cant detect any drive finally i installed it on my old HD normal one and vista can read other drives for sata durin normal one but hangin some times while working so plz i need help to install vista on my sata i will post this pic may be help alittle or i 've sth wrong here
the active one is my normal HD not sata (J) the other drives for
