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Help installing Vista! :-(


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Slyder

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Hi folks!!

I am having problems installing Vista. The DVD boots up OK, and says it is loading files. So far so good. After that I get a screen to select the language and keyboard language (SFSG). After I click on the 'Install Now' button, after a while I get a screen asking for a CD/DVD driver?!?!?!?. It wants to load a driver off a floppy for the DVD it has booted from!! (I have a legit copy - got the key by email from MS)

My system specs are:-

AMD 3700+
1Gb RAM
ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe
2 x 33Gb RAPTORS in RAID 0 (I have tried to load Vista with these drives disconnected - no joy!)
1 x 320Gb WD SATA
nVidia 7900GT

I have windows XP installed on the RAID array

I have created a 50Gb NTFS partition on the 320Gb WD SATA drive that I want to install Vista onto.

CAN ANYBODY HELP ME PLEASE!!!!!!!
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did you install the sata driver at the beginning?
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No, I didn't.

Can you tell me how do you do that and where do you get the drivers please? Is it the same as the RAID drivers when you install XP i.e. press F6?

If it is I don't get that option at the start of the setup.
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yes it is

there is a screen, where you can Create partition, Delete partition, Format partition and , at the end, ”load driver”

click LOAD driver

You must have a driver for this though--I've had a little luck using windows xp drivers, but this is not advisable...see if the sata controller maker has a vista driver
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I am now trying to install this from within windows itself. Before I was booting from the DVD, but I get so far into the installation and now get a 80070241 error code!!!

I have been onto the MS Technet forum and they seem to think that it is because it is a SATA drive that the installation is going onto - a PATA drive works without throwing an error. Hope this helps someone!!!!

Edited by Slyder, 30 June 2006 - 08:22 AM.

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yes it is

there is a screen, where you can Create partition, Delete partition, Format partition and , at the end, "load driver"

click LOAD driver








did you do that?



I does not matter that you are installing from within windows....you still need that driver. The driver on your PC already is a windows xp driver and has nothing to do with the windows vista install, which needs its own driver.
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yes it is

there is a screen, where you can Create partition, Delete partition, Format partition and , at the end, ”load driver”

click LOAD driver

You must have a driver for this though--I've had a little luck using windows xp drivers, but this is not advisable...see if the sata controller maker has a vista driver


I justp osted something about that in the other thread I started. I dont get the option to create partition at all when I go to install. I just get delete partition option. Whats the deal with that?
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wait a second...how are you trying to install this thing? On what kind of system?

Are you trying to update an existing version of windows xp to vista?
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are oyu asking me or him?
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you, but I see you are posting in his thread, which has me confused....I did not check to see who the poster was....all are welcome to offer help to others, but please be careful about asking questions in someone else's thread...it gets hard to keep things sorted out
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sorry.

Anyways I was trying to install it along side XP.

Theirs just something weird going on with my Sata drive. Even when I go to disk manager in XP it wont let me make another partition in the drive and Vista didnt offer it during the install. I think that when I went to initially format the drive i set it for the wrong settings. Its no big deal though, Vista is installed its just running off a different drive now.
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I don't have, and cannot find any SATA drivers for Vista!!!! Can anybody help?

I have an ASUS AN8-SLI Nforce4 Deluxe mobo, I have been on the nVidia and ASUS sites, but neither have any drivers!!
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this guy said he got it working with xp drivers on 32-but vista

http://www.nforcersh...1a6c25ce528c653

There are no dedicaed vista nforce 4 raid drivers at present
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I have tried the XP drivers and the vista beta drivers from nVidia, doesn't matter what I try, still getting 80070241 error code.

Edited by Slyder, 01 July 2006 - 08:28 AM.

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found these--just came out yesterday so I hadn't known about them

http://www.nzone.com..._x86_beta2.html
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