Vista install on SATA

Jak · 21 May 2007 at 23:15

Hi all,

Just bought parts from a new system, I haven't started installing my Vista yet but got all the hardware screwed in, just realised that I don't have a floppy drive, so my question is how does Vista handle SATA drivers during installation? Do you still need to press F6 to install from a floppy?!

My motherboard is Asus PB5 Delux.

Thanks for your help.

Katoom · 21 May 2007 at 23:23

It has SATA drivers built in and you can install other drivers during installation.
Vista should install with no problems, i think it has some probs with raid arrays though. (can't get mine to work!)

gareth170 · 21 May 2007 at 23:38

Katoom said:
It has SATA drivers built in and you can install other drivers during installation.

vista only have some SATA controller drivers built in...

Jak said:
Hi all,

Just bought parts from a new system, I haven't started installing my Vista yet but got all the hardware screwed in, just realised that I don't have a floppy drive, so my question is how does Vista handle SATA drivers during installation? Do you still need to press F6 to install from a floppy?!

My motherboard is Asus PB5 Delux.

Thanks for your help.

u may need to download your SATA controller drivers from ASUS site then put the drivers on a usb pan drive

stoofa · 22 May 2007 at 01:14

Vista, like all OS's only knows about controllers that were around when it was written.
I don't believe by default for example it contains any drivers for the ICH9r controllers in ACHI or RAID mode - found on the new P35 chipsets.
However if you leave the "mode" of your controller to standard IDE in the BIOS the OS should install just fine.

Vista allows you to feed in drivers contained on floppy, CD, DVD or USB memory sticks, so no need to worry about a lack of floppy drive these days.

Vicar · 22 May 2007 at 01:32

Whats a Floppy drive

My last build is the first build ever where I havent even entertained a floppy drive, felt a bit weird, lol....

Philio · 22 May 2007 at 05:09

Vista appears to have all the nForce chipsets for both normal SATA mode and RAID modes, I was quite impressed it picked up the 2 RAID arrays I had configured right away. AFAIK older chipsets work fine, I don't know of anyone who has actually had to plug in a floppy get to install it.

Fortunately if it doesn't have a driver MS have finally seen sense and let you choose from available drives so you can just put in the CD which came with your board. No need for a floppy any more!

Jak · 22 May 2007 at 08:17

Ok, that sounds excellent

gareth170 · 22 May 2007 at 11:06

stoofa said:
However if you leave the "mode" of your controller to standard IDE in the BIOS the OS should install just fine..

not all motherboards have the ide sata option in the BIOS ...

my motherboard has it and yes its a lot easyer...

Philio said:
Fortunately if it doesn't have a driver MS have finally seen sense and let you choose from available drives so you can just put in the CD which came with your board. No need for a floppy any more!

most motherboard cds have xp drivers not vista drivers..

he'll need to download the drivers from asus and put them on a cd or usb flash drive