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?

helmutcheese · 27 Aug 2007 at 22:37

Vista supports most SATA Controlers by default, I know it dont for Silicon, and you need drivers to install Windows.

The HDD has nothing to do with it, you need drivers for the Sata Controler on your Motherboard so need make/model of that board.

Lisa · 27 Aug 2007 at 22:41

gigabyte ga-p35c-ds3r

ns400r · 27 Aug 2007 at 22:44

When asked for the disk, use the drivers provided on the motherboard CD.
Vista is after the drivers for the controller on the motherboard, not the drivers for the hard drive(s).

helmutcheese · 27 Aug 2007 at 22:45

Not 100% sure if all Intel or some other make of Sata also on mobo, here is drivers to get you running anyhow.

http://www.giga-byte.com.tw/Support/Motherboard/Driver_Model.aspx?ProductID=2551

helmutcheese · 27 Aug 2007 at 22:45

ns400r said:
When asked for the disk, use the drivers provided on the motherboard CD.
Vista is after the drivers for the controller on the motherboard, not the drivers for the hard drive(s).

The drivers on his Mobo CD may be really old, only he can find that out.

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:

ns400r · 27 Aug 2007 at 22:48

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

Download the correct drivers from the link above then.

helmutcheese · 27 Aug 2007 at 22:52

Unlike XP, you can use other media apart from a Floppy, you got that added to CD and USB Stick support.

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!!

helmutcheese · 27 Aug 2007 at 23:01

Lisa · 27 Aug 2007 at 23:15

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

ns400r · 28 Aug 2007 at 01:12

I would one either of these 3.

Intel ICH9R Driver

or

GIGABYTE SATA2 RAID Driver

or

Intel ICH9R SATA RAID Driver

Presuming you have a 32bit Vista install.

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

DavidB · 28 Aug 2007 at 12:15

Sounds odd problem, one thing you may want to try (and this is guess work), is plugging the hard drives into the yellow sata ports on the motherboard instead of the purple.
Not sure why that'd make a difference, but my computer was a little uncomfortable at first in the (faster) purple sata slots.

Ofcourse its probably nothing to do with that and just a bit of a driver faff being kicked up from vista, in which case all you can really do is keep trying drivers

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

ns400r · 28 Aug 2007 at 21:53

After downloading the driver from Gigabyte, you did expand or uncompress the files didn't you? Sorry to have to ask.

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?