Clean install on new pc with SATA HDD

[Guest]

I have just built a new pc and am trying to install vista home premium on my
single sata hdd. The hdd is recognised in the bios but when i try to install
vista, it can't find it. The hdd didn't come with a driver and i can't seem
to find one. There are drivers on the mobo cd namely NVIDIA nForce 430/410
Serial ATA controller and NVIDIA nForce RAID class controller. The Vista
installation can see these drivers but after I load, the install still fails
to see the hard drive. I have not formatted or partitioned my brand new SATA
drive, because I have assumed that the install of Vista will do it for me (am
I being seriously naive!!).

 

[Dennis Pack]

JJ:
The hard drive has to be formatted and partitioned (if desired)
before Vista will recognize it. Have a great day.

 

[Richard Urban]

Do you "install" the SATA driver when asked during the install process? If
you don't you may have problems.

You setup your hard drive during the install process by using advanced
install. You create a partition and format a partition (at least 30 gig
please, if not more) and then direct the installer to use the new partition
for Vista.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Saucy Lemon]

Just my experience: Here, when the opportunity arises during the install
routine (the dialogue about where to install Vista) I manually select the
option to load the driver. Vista searches and finds the driver and I
instruct Vista to use it. There on in, I can partition and format the
harddrive.

Now note: I have already used the mobo's utility to create the RAID0 I want
*before* installing Vista.

 

[Guest]

Thanks to everyone for replying. I went back to the bios and noticed that the
sata 1 had disapeared from main. Kind of figured out this was because i had
tried to set up a raid earlier with only one hdd- duh! I reset and started
again, this time vista acknowledged the drive and my headache was gone.
p.s. did not need to format or partition - vista recognised the whole drive!