I've been trying to dual-boot someone's Vista laptop by adding XP Pro to it. Partition Magic balked at the partition table saying it had a partition that wasn't on a sector boundary [error #105, I forget the exact error reason].
Since then the Vista install gives a BSOD with an UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME as the cause. So I put in the Vista Ultimate DVD that came with the laptop and tried to use the repair option. It needs a driver and this is where the problem lies. I've downloaded the official Dell driver for Vista 32-bit but it doesn't work. After adding it I don't get any found operating systems so cannot proceed to fix the boot volume.
The disk setup is not straightforward, it is configured as AHCI/RAID and the two hard drives are configured as a RAID 0 stripe. Even so this driver should let me access it. I have also tried getting the Intel Matrix Storage Manager driver directly from Intel. It gives a different error and still doesn't work.
Does anybody have any ideas to help me get Vista fixed?
Since then the Vista install gives a BSOD with an UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME as the cause. So I put in the Vista Ultimate DVD that came with the laptop and tried to use the repair option. It needs a driver and this is where the problem lies. I've downloaded the official Dell driver for Vista 32-bit but it doesn't work. After adding it I don't get any found operating systems so cannot proceed to fix the boot volume.
The disk setup is not straightforward, it is configured as AHCI/RAID and the two hard drives are configured as a RAID 0 stripe. Even so this driver should let me access it. I have also tried getting the Intel Matrix Storage Manager driver directly from Intel. It gives a different error and still doesn't work.
Does anybody have any ideas to help me get Vista fixed?