Vista install on SATA drive

[AnnFenneman]

I am trying to do a clean install of Vista Ultimate on a new Seagate 320GB
drive. I have an Intel D875PBZ MB with a 8280ER ICH5R SATA controller. The
upgrade advisor says that this config is okay and the installation can see
the drive and even deleted a partition and formated the drive. I have tried

it with both the SATA RAID enabled and disabled thru the BIOS. I have the
latest BIOS (P34) on the MB. I have loaded the last ICH5R drivers that INTEL

had available on it's website (a floppy install 5.1 although the direct
install goes up to 5.5). No matter what I try the installation tells me that

there is "No suitable volume available". How do I get this to work?

Thanks

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

On a brand new hard drive, you must create a new partition,
then format the new partition. Pay close attention to the
setup options.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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I am trying to do a clean install of Vista Ultimate on a new Seagate 320GB
drive. I have an Intel D875PBZ MB with a 8280ER ICH5R SATA controller. The
upgrade advisor says that this config is okay and the installation can see
the drive and even deleted a partition and formated the drive. I have tried

it with both the SATA RAID enabled and disabled thru the BIOS. I have the
latest BIOS (P34) on the MB. I have loaded the last ICH5R drivers that INTEL

had available on it's website (a floppy install 5.1 although the direct
install goes up to 5.5). No matter what I try the installation tells me that

there is "No suitable volume available". How do I get this to work?

Thanks

 

[Guest]

Been there done that.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Is your SATA drive shown enabled in the BIOS?

 

[Guest]

Yes, I've tried it both ways (enabled and disabled). I really appreciate all
the help that everyones trying to give me. But all the questions I've been
asked are already answered in my orginal post.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Microsoft offers free installation support:
https://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?gprid=11734

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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Yes, I've tried it both ways (enabled and disabled). I really appreciate all
the help that everyones trying to give me. But all the questions I've been
asked are already answered in my orginal post.

 

[Guest]

Ann,
How do I post a new question....
I get no response when I press "Question"
Thanks,
Jasper

 

[Adam Albright]

Yes, I've tried it both ways (enabled and disabled). I really appreciate all
the help that everyones trying to give me. But all the questions I've been
asked are already answered in my orginal post.

I had similar SATA issues when configuring my system. You could be
stuck in a catch 22. If I configured for RAID or non RAID any attempt
to boot would generate a No OS found or some similar error and the
BIOS would hang before even entering the OS.

Look carefully at the manual that came with the MB. Most every BIOS
has a setting that you can downgrade SATA drives to run as a simpler
IDE devices. Do not change any setting on the drive itself. Depending
on your BIOS that could be more than one line that needs changing in
the BIOS. Try that remembering what they were so you can go back.

If that was the only bottleneck you should get over the hump. If you
get Vista to install THEN look for the latest BIOS upgrade, yours may
not be new enough. While I was able to install Vista I couldn't get
the SATA drive out of IDE mode until I installed both the latest BIOS
and also a new Vista capable controller for it which even wasn't on
the Gigabyte web site in spite of the board claiming to be Vista
certified.

If it is an option you can update (flash) your BIOS directly from the
vendor's web site. How should be in the MB manual if it supports. A
lot of models now do.

 

[John Barnes]

You have to create a partition that is suitable to Vista, however you do it.
OP have used BootItNG to create an appropriate partition. Make sure you
have an appropriate primary partition for the system partition and format
the install partition with Vista NTFS.

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

Look carefully at the manual that came with the MB. Most every BIOS
has a setting that you can downgrade SATA drives to run as a simpler
IDE devices.

That is the solution.

Go into the BIOS and turn the drive from SATA or AHCI mode to IDE Legacy
Mode. Then install Vista, and then install the SATA drivers for your
controller.

Then, remember to go back into the BIOS and turn AHCI mode (preferable with
modern HDDs) or SATA mode, for best performance.

ss.

 

[Kevin Weaver]

You have to turn on AHCI before a vista Install.

You can not slip stream it. And if running a early sata drive that does not
support ACHI your going to get a black screen. Vista can only load the
driver at install and provided the bios is set and the drive supports it.

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

You have to turn on AHCI before a vista Install.

You can not slip stream it. And if running a early sata drive that
does not support ACHI your going to get a black screen. Vista can
only load the driver at install and provided the bios is set and the
drive supports it.

Yes, you are right, and just using SATA mode will be the safe option.

However, if you search Google, you will see that you can ease those AHCI
drivers into a running installation.

eg.
http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t=444831

ss.

 

[Kevin Weaver]

A friend followed that and had way to many problems. He even contacted the
guy and was told it's a hit or miss. He said to be sure of a problem free
Install, Is to do a clean install.

 

[Guest]

im useing a sata dvd.disable the raid in bios.make sure sata is innabled in
bios.you may need to go to ,device manager and see whats in there,see if
there is a problem there with anything.uninstall.anything installed thats not
suposed to be there,or disable,,see whats in those line ups,uninstall if need
be and reinstall..do a restart..make sure in bios,that your line up of,cd or
dvd or hard drive is in the right boot order..if you ever get it all working
right,do a manual restore point..may save you some greif,if you install
something else that gets rejected..

 

[Adam Albright]

A friend followed that and had way to many problems. He even contacted the
guy and was told it's a hit or miss. He said to be sure of a problem free
Install, Is to do a clean install.

Clean install is one of the long established urban myths perpetrated
by the dumbass crowd that simply don't know what they're doing.

 

[peter]

If she cant get Vista to install..how is she going to go to Device manager??
peter

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

How do I post a new question....
I get no response when I press "Question"

The reason you're having such problems is that you are using the awful
web interface to read this newsgroup--it's the slowest, clunkiest,
most error-prone method there is. Do yourself a favor and switch to a
newsreader, such as Windows Mail, which comes with Windows. See
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm. That
provides instructions for Outlook Express, but it's almost the same in
Windows Mail.