Vista+Sata: Now Possible

[narshornsyst]

Do you mean we have to make a floppy without txtoem but all the other files ?

On my RAID 0 XP install went good with the good old 3xxx floppy :rofl:

N.A.R.

[razmirz]

I have found a solution to SATA issuses with the asus a8v serise mother boards when using Vista Build 5219 and any other via VT8237 chipset boards.

Below is the link to the dirvers you require.

http://members.driverguide.com/driver/deta...driverid=521714

Extract them to floppy and after pressing shift+F10 type

d:\drivers\dpinst.exe /path a:\

d being the letter of your disk drive

[DodgeViper]

If you thought SATA was issue, I can't even get my Maxtor 80GB IDE drive to come up as one of the installation targets, but for some weird reason my two WD raptors in RAID 0 config get detected as a one 70GB drive but I can't install on there because it's greyed out, don't want to format it because I want to go back to XP incase Vista ****s up.

When I tried loading my SATA driver SIl3112 from a floppy, it came up with a very very long list of drivers, you probably think that I just had to select the right driver for my RAID controller but guess what, there was 50 drivers in the list all exactely the same and I selected each one and got the same error message saying 'the driver files are incorrect or do not exist' something along those lines.

I really want to try it out but it's just not working out for me, any chance it'll install on an ipod.

[Hallowed]

Just a bump, if anyone has managed to install Vista 5342 onto a RAID0 setup on an nForce4 SLi motherboard, please let me know!

Thanks,

htkbnr

[ShaneSparky_YYZ]

I was always able to install Vista on my SATA drives, but I never had an nforce chipset (I got an intel 865).

EDIT\\

I don't think this thread should've been bumped Hallowed, I just noticed this is from 2005.

You might get more people to look at it if you create a new thread asking your question ;)

[fm535]

You might want to check to see if your BIOS has the OnBoard BOOT-SATA enabled in the On Board devices section. Once I disabled it, SATA and the computer were a lot happier, and I could boot from IDE like I originally planned, and leave my SATA DATA drive in place during install!

[Max Veteran]

You might want to check to see if your BIOS has the OnBoard BOOT-SATA enabled in the On Board devices section. Once I disabled it, SATA and the computer were a lot happier, and I could boot from IDE like I originally planned, and leave my SATA DATA drive in place during install!

Welcome to the board dude!

Thing is, since the thread is a year old - things have progressed since then and my specific SATA issues have been resolved.

[TEX4S]

mine works quite nicely - well....as good as it can w/ current hardware - I cant wait to see what it does on a Kent. quad core :D :yes:

[bornagainbiker]

:sleep: ATTENTION all those who have tried everything with the drivers during setup

Ive figured it out!!!!! :yes:

you need to change the drive from dynamic to basic and everything will run fine.

In Windows Xp goto: Control Panel > AdministrativeTools > Computer Management > Storage > Disk Management

Right click in the space where it says something like:

Disk 1

Dynamic

233.76 GB

Online

Then Click "Convert to Basic Disk"

Format it (well I did just to be on the safe side) then restart your computer with your Vista Dvd set as 1st boot device.

Hope this works for you!

[nautiqueskier]

Um yeah who uses the dynamic drive ability built into Windows XP anyways. The idea of doing 100% Software Raid just makes be cringe (even NVRAID is hardware assisted). That and the fact that the disks can't be accessed from any non-Windows product, as well as XP Home, sorta means they are useless in a dual boot situation.