pata or sata

[Guest]

i can install beta 2 on a pata drive but can not install on a sata drive!

it gets to 27% expanding files and then restarts. on the screen with the
progress bar is when it stalls!

it sees the drive fine so i know i dont need to load drivers as is the same
with xp i dont need to load drivers for xp either!

i dont want to dual boot and switchin hard drives is really starting to suck

thanks for any help

mike

 

[Mark D. VandenBerg]

At what point of the installation process are you loading your SATA drivers?

 

[Guest]

I did an install on a SATA 2 drive and it worked fine. Sounds like there is
some other problem. You might try using another install DVD. The one you
have may have a corrupt file on it.

 

[peter]

Just because it worked for XP does NOT mean it will work for Vista
suggest you locate those Sata drivers and load them during the Vista install
peter

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

I get the first reboot at about that point in Expanding Files. The reboot
is expected behavior. This is also the point at which the installation will
fail if the drive controller driver is not available to setup. You should
provide the driver for your controller via the Load Drivers button at the
beginning of Setup.

 

[Guest]

ok all thanks for the replys

mark - i dont as it dose not ask for them because it already sees the drive.

john - it installs fine on a pata drive no problem from a dvd ,a mounted
..iso , or files copied to hard drive... but sata dose the same thing no
matter how i go about tring to install it
peter - sorry same answer as i give to mark above-i dont as it dose not ask
for them because it already sees the drive.

i have tried to install from sata partition c with xp to clean partition d
for vista -
i have tried to install from PATA partition c to clean SATA partition d from
dvd ,ect still no luck

i am very frustrated as to this install on sata.....
i have tried every differant way i can to install it but still no go

any more thoughts
thanks mike

 

[Guest]

thanks Colin
i will try it again but i fear that it will fail but i will try anyway for
the 20th time
i will let you know
thanks mike

 

[Steve]

I'm lost here. I have three SATA drives on my machine (only one PATA
DVD-ROM), and I have no problems at all installing Vista. Could this be due
to a lack of motherboard drivers?

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Some motherboards have the SATA drivers in firmware. Some, often with via
chipsets, do not and the user has to supply the drivers.

 

[Guest]

thank for the replies all

this is what i have found out
the chipset is a uli s1689
the sata driver i need is a ali sata controller m5289
yes the driver is part of the firmware
i have the 5 in 1 driver disc for this mobo but vista says no drivers on disk!
soooo ...i have been looking everywhere for just the sata driver and have
not been able to find it at all! and no i'm not able to pull it off the
driver disk as it is a intagrated driver disk !

in the bios
i am able to change the sata type to ide (meaning no raid) or other mass
storage
(meaning raid). to install xp i had it set to ide and it works fine. for
vista i tried ide
install on clean hd 27% expanding files restart progress bar then bsod with
code 0x0000009c or 0x00000004 or 0x00070f0.

other mass storage needs the drivers whitch it dosnt want to see!

so im in a little boat with a big hole, no bucket, and sinking quick roflol

help mike

 

[Guest]

some driver cd have a program to build a floppy disk
then copy drivers to the root of the floppy disk or thumb drive

 

[Guest]

use windows xp drivers

some driver cd have a program to build a floppy disk
then copy drivers to the root of the floppy disk or thumb drive

 

[Guest]

thanks gerald

i have been tring to use xp drivers but to no avail because they are on the
5 in 1 disk!
and alas matie this grrrr disk dosnt offer to make a start up floppy shiver
me timbers grrrrr (lol sorry just got done watchin pirates of the caribean)
can any one help me make one?

thanks mike

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

The Setup Load Drivers will accept floppies, cd's, or thumb drives. Will
that help you?

 

[Guest]

hey colin

i wish that would work but vista dosnt recognize the 5 in 1 driver disk
i need to know how to pull the drivers off the disk but i havent figured out
how !
please help

thanks mike

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

I don't know what the 5 in 1 driver disk is. Do you know where the hard
drive driver folder is on the disk?

 

[peter]

I see your problem
My ULI M1695/M1567 chipset drivers did not install from the CD either...and
the making of a floppy worked but Vista did not recognize the driver
package....said it was only for XP.Asrock 939Dual-SATA2 motherboard.
Nowhere under Device Manager does it list a SATA controller only a ULI M5229
PCI Bus Master Controller as well as a Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE
Controller.The drive does seem a little slower than I am used to under XP

But Vista 64 bit installed without a hitch using its own build in drivers,I
installed from scratch with nothing on either Hard drive ,,SATA and PATA
both empty .I installed onto the SATA drive.My BIOS lets me chose which
drive to start from and if I chose tp start from the PATA drive it will not
start...it will only start from the SATA drive so I know Vista is on the
drive and working.

peter

 

[Guest]

hey colin

the 5 in 1 driver disk is what came with my motherboard it has all the
drivers needed integrated into one install package for the motherboard. the
only thing is i can find the sata drivers but i dont know how to install them
as they are .inf files and vista wont recognize them either.

on the otherhand an up date
i got vista to install by upgradeing xp sp2 without any updates for xp!

i still need to know how to pull the drivers off the disk and to make them
work by themselfs with out the 5 in 1 installer so i can do a kleen install

thanks
mike

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

By putting them in the root of a cd or thumb drive.

 

[Guest]

colin

i have tried that and no go! i have went step by step from chaintech to make
a driver disk and vista still dosnt recognize the dvd driver disk i made.
do i need a .exe file to load them or should it know what to do with the
..inf files i put on it?

mike