Unable to install on an "old" motherboard - no disk found

[Guest]

I have an Intel® 875P Chipset motherboard.

Configuration is
IDE Master 0: DVD reader
IDE Slave 0: empty
IDE Master 1: CD reader
IDE Slave 1: HD 160GB new

The setup is not able to find ANY disk and continues to aks me for a driver
disk!

Anyone has tried this configuration?

Thanks,
M.

 

[Guest]

Does your bios see the drive during detection phase? Perhaps make the HDD the
primary master instead of the secondary slave.

 

[Guest]

Yes it is detected correctly.
The system can boot from it (if OS is installed )
The other XP (from a disk on SATA bus, disable during vista install) system
recognises it correctly

 

[Rusth H \(1136045\)]

Search the forum for SATA - I think you have to load SATA drivers before you
install from the VISTA DVD

 

[Guest]

I do not want the sata disk to be recognized during setup to avoid problems.

I've even tried to DISABLE the sata component from bios (could not be over
written from os) but the result is the same!

 

[Guest]

Things are getting even worst.

Now I have:
IDE Master 0: HD 160GB new
IDE Slave 0: DVD reader
IDE Master 1: CD reader
IDE Slave 1: empty

It does not recognise anything.

I've tried to partition the disk with XP: nothing
I've tried to remove CD Reader: nothing
I've tried to enable-disable Raid controllers: nothing

Simply the disk does not exist!!!!


Unbelivable.

There is any way to obtain debug info from Vista setup to post them?