Vista Setup 'Installing Features'

weeble · 9 Aug 2007 at 10:03

Sorry, wasn't clear. Meant SATA drivers for the hard drive.

Do you have a spare IDE DVD drive though?

Give memtest a go too

GastricTitan · 9 Aug 2007 at 10:09

iv got a spare IDE dvd drive. I've not tried memtest as I have 2 sticks of 2gb and tried an install one each of them. My harddrive is IDE so do I still need to get some SATA drivers for it? If so where can I get them.

weeble · 9 Aug 2007 at 10:26

If your HDD is wired up and configured as IDE, SATA drivers aren't needed.

Have you tried different leads connecting the HDD to the mobo? And a different port on the mobo?

Try the spare IDE DVD drive too, and only use 1 2GB stick.

I'd still try memtest, as I spent weeks fiddling with various hardware configs, only to find after running memtest that both sticks were duff!

Memtest link

GastricTitan · 9 Aug 2007 at 10:30

I dont have any spare IDE leads to try. I'm trying an install with an IDE DVD drive now, but its painfully slow, no different than with SATA. I'll try the memtest next, but in failing that there isn't anything else that I can really do.

GastricTitan · 9 Aug 2007 at 10:57

Just got off the phone to a guy who says to try a low level format or a Zero Fill. The only problem being these are executables inside the windows environment. Anyone know of a way to execute these from a pendrive on start up? I don't have a floppy drive.

GastricTitan · 9 Aug 2007 at 11:19

Just got this message at the 'installing features'

"Windows cannot access the installation sources. Verify that the installation sources are accesible, and restart the installation"

???

weeble · 9 Aug 2007 at 11:47

Have had that message too - tried a different HDD and DVD drive but it didn't matter for me.

Have you tried a different HDD? Just to iron out it's not the HDD.

Have you run/made a memtest disc yet?

GastricTitan · 9 Aug 2007 at 11:48

Been onto overclockers and they said to run a diagnostics on my harddrive but I have no idea how to do it. I have the diagnostics tool on my pen drive, but no idea how to get it to run

weeble · 9 Aug 2007 at 13:16

Do you have access to a CD burner?

If so, download Samsung's HDD diagnostic (HUTIL) and make a disc.
HUTIL link

It's a bootable CD, so no OS needed.

I would still run memtest though too.

GastricTitan · 9 Aug 2007 at 14:57

thanks for the help, but my brain is fried right now, I admitted defeat and sent the mobo, cpu and hdd into OC for testing. Here's hoping something comes back faulty.