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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

Not sure how to do this ...

I am in the process of moving motherboards around and in one instance I've dithched an old mobo with a new one that supports SATA drives.

I created a ghost image of the original IDE driving containing Vista Home Premium then imaged that on a new SATA drive. On install of the drive Vista requested the original CD for a Repair/Restart which I did without issue - on reboot however Vista gets about half way through the boot process and reboots.

I put the original IDE drive back and can boot all the way to the log in screen - so how do yo

Hi all my first topic on your great forum.I just bought Vista Home Premium,I curently have a dual boot configuration now but I have a 160 gig sata I want to put clean install on,Now my problem the first screen I get is to install raid sata drivers to a floppy ,I dont have a floppy drive(does anyone these days) I didnt install these drivers on my current setup.Anyway is there away around this or do I have to buy a floppy that I basiclly will only use once?.Thanks I hope this all makes sense

I recently loaded vista premium onto a dedicated O/S drive.It did not get rid of my Win XP files, rather it created a Windows.old folder.This was not a problem. I have 3 other SATA Drives away from my O/S drive. A 200, a 400 and a 500Gb WD. The...

Hi all,I've just bought a Samsung 250GB SATA2 SP2504C hard drive with the intention of installing Vista on it. Problem is its not listed as one of the available drives during installation- just the other two, one of which is IDE and one is SATA....