vista says no suitable hard drive

[AMDX2]

i try to install vista berta 2 and it sees my hard drive and then when i say
next it says it can not find a suitable drive. i don't remember the exact
message, bvut that's the jist of it. the drive is seen and there's no issues
with it being on raid or anything cus it's just a single drive on a normal
pc. i told vista to format, it does and still says can't find a suitable
drive, delete and partition, then vista says the same thing. inside windows
xp before i tried to install i right clicked on the drive and said format,
quick format. it's just a standard ide.

what's the deal here?

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, OE/WM]

i try to install vista berta 2 and it sees my hard drive and then when i
say next it says it can not find a suitable drive. i don't remember the
exact message, bvut that's the jist of it. the drive is seen and there's no
issues with it being on raid or anything cus it's just a single drive on a
normal pc. i told vista to format, it does and still says can't find a
suitable drive, delete and partition, then vista says the same thing.
inside windows xp before i tried to install i right clicked on the drive
and said format, quick format. it's just a standard ide.

what's the deal here?

Do you have SATA drives?
Did you install the drivers?

 

[Roy Coorne]

Do you have SATA drives?
Did you install the drivers?

A standard IDE - but is it NTFS formatted? Vista won't install on FAT32...

Roy

 

[AMDX2]

If you guys know XP at all you'll know it can't format fat32. So when you
right click on a hard drive from wihtin XP and you say format it is only
ntfs.

It worked, but seems Vista installer as of now is extremly pickey. I don't
know what I did to get it to work.

 

[Roy Coorne]

If you guys know XP at all you'll know it can't format fat32. So when you
right click on a hard drive from wihtin XP and you say format it is only
ntfs. ...

XP *can* format logical drives smaller than 32 (?) GB in FAT32.
Yes, Sir.


Roy

 

[AMDX2]

I had no idea because I've never gotten a choice. Sorry.

 

[Kevin John Panzke]

Did you remember to provide the Required Beta SATA or SCSI Raid Driver's for
your Mother Board via Supported External Media Method's?

 

[James Finnigan [MS]]

I had trouble with this myself. Vista installation rejected the partition
that I created in DISKPART (and formatted as ntfs). I found that if I used
an XP installation disk to format the drive (and then aborted the XP install
and rebooted), Vista installation worked. I think that it may have
succeeded if I had not created or formatted any partitions, but I haven't
verified it (as this was on my dev box and I needed to get it up and running
so I could keep working).

For what it's worth,
James

 

[AMDX2]

This is not raid nor sata. no drivers needed since the only time you need
drivers is to get vista to see the drive. if it sees it you don't need
drivers.