Vista Help

TBirdUK · 9 Nov 2007 at 21:40

just trying to install home premium 64bit vista and keep getting

"windows in unable to find a system volume that meets its criteria for installation"

Am trying to install on a raid 0, managed to do it before but needed to swap out my hdd and put in smaller ones - cant remember how I did it!!

Any help appreciated

TBirdUK · 9 Nov 2007 at 23:16

I'm going nuts here - has anyone got the raid drivers for vista 64 for the DFI ultra nforce4 board?

brendy · 10 Nov 2007 at 00:58

Crap question but what size is your partition?
Vista should pick up the drives ok, make sure you have disconnected or disabled all ide drives (bar the cdrom) first.
http://us.dfi.com.tw/Support/Download/driver_download_us.jsp?PRODUCT_ID=3471&STATUS_FLAG=A&SITE=US
only lists 64bit xp not vista..maybe worth trying.

TBirdUK · 10 Nov 2007 at 01:22

Ive tried 2 40gb drives, now its working fine with my 2 500gb drives with vista, but keeps coming up with unable to find system volume with both my 40gb and 2 160gb disks. Mobo settings must be ok as the 500s work, just cant get it to install on any others.

Its a pain as I need the 500s for another build!

Have tried a number of different RAID drivers and then it doesnt even see them! I'm stumped!

TBirdUK · 10 Nov 2007 at 10:33

Been at it most of the night and still have the same problem! Anyone got a step by step guide for a DFI ultra-d Lanparty? How do I set up either the mobo or hdds to give windows vista a system volume in raid 0 that meets the criteria (whatever that is!!)

Cheers

TBirdUK · 10 Nov 2007 at 11:38

Now I am trying to install windows XP X64 first (as that might be how I did it before) but it keeps resetting!!!!!!!

Cant seem to get any operating system on there!

KillBoY_UK · 10 Nov 2007 at 11:55

i had this but when trying to install onto a 2nd harddrive (which was using a differnt controller) how i fixed it is in the bios setting the that harddrive/controller has the primary boot , then i was able to install vista , afterwards swiched it back (i have xp on a 500gb seagate and vista on a 200gb maxtor) and i just press F8 in the boot up and select the hard drive i want to boot from (nice handy option my motherboard)

TBirdUK · 10 Nov 2007 at 12:46

Thanks for the info. Have installed on a single drive no problems, just cant get it to work in RAID 0 - seems a shame not to use that extra speed as I have 2 drives the same.

TBirdUK · 10 Nov 2007 at 16:28

Given up - cant be bothered with raid anymore.

But now have sound driver issues with vista 32 - anyone know how I can get the sound to work on an old advent T9102 - think its a realtek onboard soundcard but the download ends up giving high definition device driver problem - not the normal soundcard stuff I'm used too.

Tech specs say its a Realtek High Definition Audio (Azalia)

TBirdUK · 11 Nov 2007 at 10:10

Just for anyone who might want to know - I used the xp drivers off the MS 7046 mobo, this meant I had to do a system restore to a seperate Hdd off the cd that came with the machine to get them, then used the C-Media 5.12.01.0008_AZA sound driver IN xp compatability mode.

This has worked, although I'm not sure how!

Hope that helps someone else and saves them 14 hours of frustration