Hard drive not found on Beta 2 install from DVD

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Hi

I tried to install Vista beta 2 at the weekend on my old dual processor box,
but the
DVD setup failed to detect my 20GB IBM drive which I'd cleaned for a fresh
install.
The machine specs are as follows:-

MSI 694d Pro Motherboard v1 with Promise ATA100 controller
- the PDC20265 chip
- IEEE1394 chip & backplane
2 * 733MHz PIIIs
1GB PC-133 SDRam
20GB IBM ATA100 IDE drive (on Primary ATA100 connector)
128MB Nvidia FX5200 Graphics Card (The ASUS Vivo version)
Liteon DVD/RW drive and Ls-120 Floppy on Primary (standard) IDE connector
USB 2.0 & Firewire addon card.


I was presented with an empty partition table and clicking refresh didn't
help.
Clicking on load driver indcated that none could be found.

The drive previously contained a working installation of windows XP Pro SP2.
It should be noted that after I gave up on Vista, I installed Fedora Core 5
using the same setup and it installed without complaint. A subsequent
attempt to install Vista didn't even see the Linux partitions on the drive.

I'd still like to test Vista but is the machine too old? Any advice would be
appreciated.

Regards

katain
 

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