vista is not able to detect sata drives...

[Guest]

I've placed an extra hdd on my system and replaced an ide-internal
dvd-writer by a sata -dvd writer; now my vista-system refuses to start up,
and advises me to repair the 'system' with the vista-installation dvd.
Although the bios and 'partition commander' are able to 'see' my sata hdds
the vista -installation process on the dvd is not, and in order to be able to
detect the sata disks it asks for a 'sata mass storage' driver.

Unfortunately my d975xbx2 intel motherboard does not pocess such a driver.
Before this board I used to have a msi board and it came with a sata driver
that made it possible for the vista-installation dvd to detect sata disks.
I lament to say that this msi-sata driver does not function on my intel board.

I used to be acquainted with this problem on the xp-installation/repair
process; unfortunately the same problem continues to exist on the vista
installation/repair process.

How might I resolve this question?

Kind regards.

 

[Dominic Payer]

See http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Product_Filter.aspx?ProductID=2578

There is a BIOS update which may solve the problem. If not, check which
drive the system is set to boot from.
After adding the new drives the system may now be trying to boot from the
wrong drive: it depends on which SATA connector the drives are now connected
to.

 

[Guest]

From what I've recently learnt is that this problem does sometimes occur with
the nVidia controller.
I do possess an asus geforce 7900 xfx-card.

 

[Guest]

This is how WinXP describes this problem: Windows setup could not determine
the type of one or more storage devices installed in your system.

In need of a special disk controller for use with Windows, including those
for which you have a device support disk for a mass storage device
manufacturer...


For WindowsXP a driver exists: 'WinXP Promise SATA IDE Controller', but I
can't find anything for Vista.