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demon8991 · 5 Jun 2009 at 19:13

Just built the system in the picture below.

I have gone to install a fresh copy of windows vista ultimate 64 bit but when i get to the screen which you select where you want to install vista it says:

'Windows is unable to find a system volume that meets its criteria for installation.'

I dont know what to do am i missing something simple?

user1453 · 5 Jun 2009 at 19:17

I believe it can't see you hdd is ther an option to add additional drivers?

demon8991 · 5 Jun 2009 at 19:18

There is a load driver option.

The HDD is there it has its free and total space too.

Is there any drivers i can download to get it to work?

siumatfung · 5 Jun 2009 at 19:19

have you formatted/created a partition on the hard drive? and have you disabled RAID in the BIOS?

demon8991 · 5 Jun 2009 at 19:21

Ive created a partition and formated and still no luck.

Havnt checked the bios!

RJC · 5 Jun 2009 at 19:22

I have this problem on my Gigabyte EX38-DS5, I did every combination under the sun and still got the same message, in the end I had to add a partition select the new partition and windows started to load. Then find some software to remove the partition.

Pain the rear for sure, but I did not know any other way.

Flare · 5 Jun 2009 at 19:25

Its so depressing how cheap that is, back when i built my pc (feb) that would have all cost about £1400. Mine cost anout the same as yours and i got so much less =[

demon8991 · 5 Jun 2009 at 19:27

The bios says.

SATA RAID/AHCI Mode [Disabled]

[Disabled] Disable both RAID/AHCI function
[RAID] Enable Sata as RAID Function
[AHCI] Enable SATA as AHCI Function

Sata Port0-3 Native Mode [Disabled]

[Enabled] SATA Port0-3 Work at Native IDE Mode
[Disabled] SATA Port0-3 Work at Legacy IDE Mode

user1453 · 5 Jun 2009 at 19:37

If you are using the intel sata ports I think you need the top one in ahci mode, Huessing here as I had a raid array

demon8991 · 5 Jun 2009 at 19:54

Brilliant thanks mate you have really helped!

I switched to AHCI mode and it has sorted it!

Vista is installing now do i need to change it back once Vista is installed?

Venares · 5 Jun 2009 at 20:01

No, leave it set to AHCI.
The drive will operate much faster than bog standard sata.

demon8991 · 5 Jun 2009 at 20:03

Cool sounds good!

Might have to check my system in the rig to see if that setting is enabled as i never chnaged anything when i installed vista on that!

demon8991 · 6 Jun 2009 at 00:27

This is prooving a bit of a problem i have managed to get vista installed but when i go to run the updates the maching just hangs and everything locks up.

I have reinstalled and still the same.

Any known issues?

Could it be the wireless card?

user1453 · 6 Jun 2009 at 00:33

have your tired installing windows 7, I know that it works fine, having just installed it on my cousins pc with a x58-ud3r, with that board so if it doen't instal we will know where the problem lies

demon8991 · 6 Jun 2009 at 00:45

demon8991 said:
The bios says.

SATA RAID/AHCI Mode [Disabled]

[Disabled] Disable both RAID/AHCI function
[RAID] Enable Sata as RAID Function
[AHCI] Enable SATA as AHCI Function

Sata Port0-3 Native Mode [Disabled]

[Enabled] SATA Port0-3 Work at Native IDE Mode
[Disabled] SATA Port0-3 Work at Legacy IDE Mode

I just managed to get it to work i set the SataPort0-3 Native Mode t [Enabled]

And it seems to be find just installing updates now.

Touch wood this will have sorted it.