Hard-drive Problem

Jammey

Jammey

Jammey

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I am trying to install Vista but it when it asks me where I want to install it doesn't show my hard drive. I have the Seagate Barracuda 320GB 7200rpm drive. Not sure what to do.

Thanks.
 
Thanks for the reply.

I tried putting the mobo disc in but it said there were no drivers. So I went on gigaforce website and downloaded drivers. I put them on disc and tried to use them on install, still said there were no drivers.
 
Have you tryed checking in the bios to see if you can set the sata drives to ide mode or failng that turn off sata ahci mode if either of the options are there?
Not all mobo's let you do this but the majority of them do meaning your be able to bypass using a sata driver and xp/vista should see the drive from the word go.
 
I kind of assumed Vista would ship with sata drives in?
Perhaps you could try a linux live cd (e.g. Ubuntu) and load up using that to make sure the hard drive can be seen provided it is visible in the bios.

Is this a new hard drive or have you had it running xp?
 
It's a totally new hard-drive and everything apart from keyboard,mouse and monitor are new. Ill have a look in the BIOS again.
 
I'm running out of ideas on this one :(
Have you got the drive connected to the intel sata ports(yellow ones) or the gigabyte ones(purple)?
Might be worth trying it on the other ones to what you have it connected to at the moment.
 
I have it connected it to the yellow ones, tried with RAID enabled and disbaledd. Then tried with AHCPI enabled then disabled. I'll try the purple one this time. One thing I hate though is the stupidly long load up times(which I guess it to be expected since its loading off a DVD.) Have to endure it each time I change something in BIOS and hardware :(
 
does the drive show in the bios?

might need sata driver for it (you'll have to extract it to a folder, and put that a usb key or cd or floppy and browse to it during install)
 
It shows in the BIOS.

Does anyone know if there is any known problems with any of my hardware.

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3P Link

Hard-drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB
 
The drivers on their website say they compatible with Vista.

Edit: I'm also unsure whether to be running on RAID,AHCI or normal mode. All the drivers on their page either have RAID or AHCI in the name. I have tried all three and nothing shows up.
 
This is an annoying problem Jammey.....

I just clicked to their website, and I notice their suggesting booting from floppy. Is this what you have done, or did you use a CD? I can't see how it should matter, but just in case.
 
in the bios you should be able to choose the mode

i would have thought one of them would have native vista support without a driver

extract all the drivers on their site (its the 'F6' drivers) for whatever vista you're using x86 is 32bit, x64 is 64 to a memstick and try browsing to the extracted driver in each bios mode, one of them has to work
 
Yeah it is annoying :( I have been using CDs for now - I have no floppies, I might have to go out and get some tommorrow if this problem persists. (Got the PC yesterday, been stuck on this same problem since last night.)

Edit: Ok, Ill try that, I've tried a few combinations, but Ill start from scratch.
 
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