Urgent-no, make that DESPERATE help needed!

Sorry for taking a while - been looking:

I've checked the Gigabyte site, and I can't see any mention of the new JMicron BIOS being in any of their updates... but it still might be there (they don't call the controller JMicron, they just call it a Gigabyte SATA controller). Having the latest BIOS is never a bad thing.

It's fairly simple (providing you have a floppy drive... !)

Download the bios here:
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/Motherboard/BIOS_DownloadFile.aspx?FileType=BIOS&FileID=12566

Extract it to a floppy, put the floppy in your new PC. Del to get into BIOS, F8 to load up the Q-Flash utility - and then it should be fairly self-evident.

Check the manual (page 58 onwards).
 
i did everything, and exactly as it said to do in the mobo book, but no joy, just reinstall it this way now :( should be more straight forward when putting on vista i hope???
 
Well if you get XP on to the drive then you can just do an upgrade to Vista from there.

Or you could try the clean way anyway, if it still doesn't see the drive then at least you'll have XP on and you can do the upgrade. My guess is it will see the drive now.
 
AlwaysOnTheRun said:
My guess is it will see the drive now.
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Yep, should work fine.

Putting XP on first was probably a bright move if you're going to Dual Boot - the bootloaders sort themselves out that way. Doing it the other way round causes a couple more headaches.
 
i did read some stuff about this, but haven't really got a clue, can i have both xp and vista on the pc?, ho does it work etc?>
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seretide said:
i did read some stuff about this, but haven't really got a clue, can i have both xp and vista on the pc?, ho does it work etc?>
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Easy - just as long as XP's partition leaves some space for an extra Vista partition, it's fairly simple.
 
seretide said:
so just try installing vista on the same partition and the rest is "easy"!?!?!?!?!?
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Same disk - same partition will just cause headaches.

Install XP - when it says 'Unpartitioned Space' Hit 'c' and type in a partition size that leaves enough left for Vista (at least 15Gb).

Then when installed, boot off the vista disc. When it gets to choosing where to install, click the unpartitioned space and click next. Job done.
 
hmm, ok, might be too late for that as only one item come up- 238474mb of "partition1! which is now being formatted, but where's the other 11.5gb??
 
seretide said:
hmm, ok, might be too late for that as only one item come up- 238474mb of "partition1! which is now being formatted, but where's the other 11.5gb??
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Probably lost in the way hard disc sizes are calculated.

To the manufacturer, there are 1000b in a Mb, 1000Mb in a Gb etc. In the real world, there are actually 1024b in a Mb etc. So stuff gets lost.
 
Now that you've got to the formatting stage, you could just screw the XP install over and try the vista disc again. If it doesn't work go back to XP, but at least you'll know if it was a prob with the drive not being formatted or not..
 
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