vista installation problem

Lisa · 27 Aug 2007 at 22:34

vista wants to save to HDD but it says drivers aren't available and to enter disk with them on... however neither HDD came with drivers/disks so what do I need to do?

Lisa · 27 Aug 2007 at 22:41

gigabyte ga-p35c-ds3r

Lisa · 27 Aug 2007 at 22:47

the motherboard cd when scanned just says no device drives were found, make sure that the installation media contains the correct drivers... :confused:

Lisa · 27 Aug 2007 at 23:00

download on the laptop save to disk and then install on pc... ok will do that now ta! and its she not he

thanks guys!!

Lisa · 27 Aug 2007 at 23:15

dumb question alert!!! which do I need to download off that list? sorry to be so ditzy!

Lisa · 28 Aug 2007 at 05:50

well I downloaded the 64 bit versions last night and tried it and it didn't work vista told me again the required drivers weren't there

Lisa · 28 Aug 2007 at 18:25

I'm going to try it with the HDD driver from the western digital website now see what happens. wish me luck!

Lisa · 28 Aug 2007 at 21:32

bleugh nothing is working! Ive googled it and it seems to be a common 64bit vista problem but no one way works for everyone :rolleyes:

and I thought building the inside was hard

Lisa · 28 Aug 2007 at 21:57

I did indeed well I think I did... will have another look :rolleyes:

thanks!

Lisa · 28 Aug 2007 at 23:32

they are all raid drivers I'm not set up for raid could that be why the drivers don't seem to work for me? do I need to change something in bios?

Lisa · 28 Aug 2007 at 23:44

I'll open up and have a look as I can't remember! LOL

Lisa · 29 Aug 2007 at 00:10

they were in orange so am trying them in purple instead.

Lisa · 29 Aug 2007 at 00:23

didn't work either! I give up well till the morning LOL need me beauty sleep

Lisa · 29 Aug 2007 at 18:41

anyone else got any ideas? this is rapidly getting me annoyed LOL thanks.

Lisa · 29 Aug 2007 at 19:37

its raid disabled but they come up as IDE ports on the list of drives though...

Lisa · 29 Aug 2007 at 20:43

how do you update the BIOS? my optical drive is IDE the HDDs SATA

Lisa · 29 Aug 2007 at 21:11

the dvd drive is IDE so where do I go from here?

Lisa · 30 Aug 2007 at 16:06

I don't have a floppy drive so may have to try the USB route. I'm getting extremely tempted to throw vista out of the window!!

Lisa · 30 Aug 2007 at 20:18

its the satas that are causing the problem not the IDE! and I have got a step forward. I set them in the purple ports and enabled raid in the lower part of the BIOS screen not the top one and suddenly vista recognises the driver BUT then went an told me that it couldn't verify something or other and restarted so am going to try again now and get the full msg if it does it again.

Lisa · 30 Aug 2007 at 20:22

"windows could not determine if this computer has a valid system volume" is the error I now get...