Vista can't find my hdd (pata) - Long post, excuse me

[J.f.k.]

The only problem I can think of is Vista not recognising the chipset
from the mainboard.

[...]
Yes I have 32bit version and your advice is exactly what I did. (Custom)
(I can't upgrade if I would because Xp is in italian and Vista in
English).
Installing from Xp was the second chance tried: it works fine until the
first reboot of Vista where it creates the menu (Setup Rollback and
Earlier Windows) . During the boot appear a nice bsod (one time a message
telling me that there aren't partition found to install Vista!)
I wrote in the first post of this thread under point 4...
I've tried everyting possible...

Buy a new PATA disk controller .

Yep you're right, )
Any advice? (cheap and stable)...
This is my mobo
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/P4/845/P4SBA+.cfm
Thanks in advance
GF

 

[J.f.k.]

Then I must say, sorry no more ideas at my side.
Must be something have to do with the hardware settings or..
You do have the HD on the first (primairy) controller and set as master?
If that's also OK, I don't know any further.

Ko.

Thanks for attention, I know is a weird problem
Ciao
Grazie, GF

 

[Michal Kawecki]

Yep you're right, )
Any advice? (cheap and stable)...

Any will by good. But carefully check it's compatibility with ATAPI,
because not all controller can boot from CD.
Personally I like Promise controllers.

BUT!

Ps I try (to test) to install on another disk (80gb) and Vista
installs without problems. The problem still remains on 160Gb (I
repeat, that is a Pata not Sata)

IMO you don't have any problem with your motherboard. Your problem is a
disk.

 

[Harald Andersen]

Ps I try (to test) to install on another disk (80gb) and Vista
installs without problems. The problem still remains on 160Gb (I
repeat, that is a Pata not Sata)

Sounds like you have a 48bit LBA problem, and it has to be
in your BIOS since Vista supports it out of the box.

What BIOS revision do you have, and do your BIOS
recognise the full size of 160GB ?

Look in BIOS, for IDE "Access mode", set it manually to LBA.


/Hca

 

[J.f.k.]

"Harald Andersen"

Sounds like you have a 48bit LBA problem, and it has to be
in your BIOS since Vista supports it out of the box.

What BIOS revision do you have, and do your BIOS
recognise the full size of 160GB ?

Award 1.1a 07/22/2003
Yes it recognise full size of 160Gb

Look in BIOS, for IDE "Access mode", set it manually to LBA.

I've tried Lba, Auto, Large yet ... nothing ...
Thanks
GF