VISTA RC1 installation

[Guest]

Hello everybody.

I hope anybody here may help me.

I have the following problem:
I want to instll Vista RC1 on a computer equiped with a Asus P5B del/Wifi,
2x Hitchi 80Gb SATAII drives. Everybody works fine until I chose the
destination drive for installation... De Raid0 partition shows up, I select
it and create 1 partition, I click Next and then I get followin message:

Windows could not determin if this Computer contains avalid system Volume !!!

Does anybody may help me? I would be so happy

PS: I connected HD on SATA1 and SATA2 (red, master) ports, activated RAID
mode in Bios for ICH8R Southbridge chip but not for JMicron Raid

 

[Andre Da Costa [ActiveWin]]

You need to load drivers for your storage device, you were presented this
choice during the initial phase of setup when you selected the destination
drive.

 

[Michael]

I had same problem w/ 2x40GB IDE, 2x200GB SATA Raid0 on ICH5R, and 1x400GB
SATA on onboard Promise controller. RC1 did not "want" to install on
anything - not even an empty 40GB IDE (37.5GB per Vista) that I formatted
using RC1 disk tools.

RC1 accepted Intel drivers but could not make it accept Promise drivers -
both on floppies. Anyway it did not find a suitable hard drive
configuration.

Next, I disabled the Raid, but RC1 would pop up the "No hard drive
configuration for Vista blah blah" even though I could see at least 1 of the
200GB HDDs in RC1 window.

Eventually, I upgraded to RC1 from XPSP2 on XP's 20GB partition and worked
pretty smooth - all 880GB HDD's recognized ; score for HDD (or "storage?")
was 5.1. RC1 did not find my Internet connection - an Intel Gigabit Ethernet
LAN to Router then cable modem - at check for updates install faze.

Something is wrong if RC1 would not install at on a 40GB formatted IDE HDD
and would install on a 20GB Sata Raid0 crammed w/ XP - take about 17.5 GB
together + OfficeXP + Office 20007 Beta etc.

To sum up, make an image of your XP instalation (if necessary) then try the
"Upgrade" option when installing from w/in XP.

Michael

 

[Scott Napolitan \(MSFT\)]

This is a frequent problem with SATA controllers. If you can set the SATA
mode to COMPATIBLE in BIOS this should fix the problem. It's not the
drivers. FreeBSD has the same problem.