Vista issues, Help needed please!

DarthRevan

DarthRevan

DarthRevan

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Posted over on General Hardware but had no joy:

My Spec:
Intel E6600
Gigabyte GA_P35_DQ6
GeForce 8800 GTS OC2 640MB
GeIL 2GB
Samsung SpinPoint 500GB SATA-II
Samsung SH-183LBEBN DVD±RW

Vista still wont recognise my hard drive.
As it stands, i have the correct drivers installed.
The hard drive is recognised in the BIOS
I have tried installing on both the yellow and the lilac headers of my mobo
I have tried all combinations of settings in the bios

Can anyone think of anything else i could try, im begining to think something is faulty in my build, but as everthing is recognised in my BIOS im not sure what it could be.

two weeks later and im still not up and running, my Mac housemates are having a field day.

Would there be any point in someone with the same mobo and hard drive to post a screen shot of their bios settings?

Is the next route to bring my hard drive into work and try install vista from there or is that going to cause me all kinds of problems when i reinstall it in my build computer.
 
Is this drive brand new? Or has it been formatted before?

Have you tried feeding Vista special drivers for your hard drive controller? Not sure what key it is for Vista but Windows XP will say something like Press F6 to load to install a third party driver.
 
Yes it is brand new and no it has not been formatted,
Do i need to do that first on another computer?

As for the drivers yes i have installed the latest controller drivers from the gigabyte site.
 
If it's a brand new drive, you will need to Format the drive before Vista can recognise it, which you can do in Vista.

In Control Panel, open up Administrative Tools.
Open Computer Management.
Find Disk Management on the right hand side.
Your drive should be listed in here.
You should see a black bar and 'Unallocated'.
Right click on this and select Format.
Just click on the Next buttons when prompted.

More details here.
 
Yes i understand that i need to formatt it, but do i need to take the drive to another computer to do this. When i try and formatt the drive in the install process in windows vista it tell me it is unable to recognise the hard drive. Even though i can determine its capacity and free space whn i right click on it and hit properties.
 
Thanks for all the help guys but i have also tried that.
I have tried every both of things but to no avail, is it looking like a bad copy of windows or is it more likely that i have a bad hard drive?
 
I've installed Vista Business 32 bit straight onto a new SATA drive (320 Hitachi deskstar) with no hitches at all. It was the Gigabyte DS3 and I think it was the purple SATA port that I used.
What you could do is install XP first and then do an upgrade install.
 
DarthRevan said:
Yes i understand that i need to formatt it, but do i need to take the drive to another computer to do this. When i try and formatt the drive in the install process in windows vista it tell me it is unable to recognise the hard drive. Even though i can determine its capacity and free space whn i right click on it and hit properties.
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So are you trying to install vista from scratch on the new drive, or have you got it already installed and trying to add a new drive you have recently bought? :confused:

I obviously misunderstood your first post. :o
As the previous poster said, if you have xp you could try installing that first.
 
Im installing from scratch,
New Build, 1 hard drive, 1 copy of vista 64bit oem.
All straight out of the packaging!

I was on to OCUK and they recommend tring to install the HDD on a machine that is already set up, so i have brought the drive into work and im going to try and get it all working from here.
 
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