First windows install

DarthRevan

DarthRevan

DarthRevan

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Hey all,
I have just completed my first build and (luckily) everything worked first time.

Except when i go to install Windows vista 64 bit, My hard drive isnt visable and it is looking for drivers.

I have a Samsung SpinPoint T HD501LJ 500GB SATA-II and i connected it to the mobo using the cable supplied with the board.

Can someone confirm the exact location of where i should connect my HDD to the mobo and if i need to install drivers or not.

Cheers for any help with this problem.

Edit: sorry using a Gigabyte GA_P35_DQ6 mobo
 
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Does anyone know the exact drivers i need for my Hard Drive to be recognised? And if so could they possibly post a link?

My problem is i can only post on OCUK during the day as i have no other computer at home other than the one i just built. So its been a case of constantly bringing home the wrong drivers and having to wait a full day to try using other ones.

Would there be any benifit to placing the samsung hard drive into my work computer and installing vista on to it from there and then placing it fully loaded back into my new build or will that just end up causing me more problems?

Thanks for any help ye guys can give me.
 
Tried that just there, it didnt work. same problem. all drives are recognised in bios but vista never does. pulling my hair out as it seems no one has had this problem solved out there.

i have tried to create the driver disk through DOS when you get that option to in the vista setup using the "cd bootdrv" method as decribed by the gigabyte manual. yet it said that the menu file was the wrong type for vista install.

none of the .exe files i have downloaded from gigabyte have worked they wont install anywhere and vista certainly doesnt see them as drivers.

i just dont know where to go from here.....

please has anyone any thoughts...
 
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