Re: Vista Setup Cannot Find HDD


"phxpoet" <guest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I got all the final parts for my new computer today. Put together all
the hardware relatively easily. Went into the BIOS to set it to load
from my optical drive first, then I popped in the Vista disc and
rebooted so the OS setup started.

Everything was fine up until it asked me to specify where to install
Vista and it told me it couldn't find any hard drives, even though I
have a WD Caviar Blue / SE / SE16 WD6400AAKS 640GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache
SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive. The HDD is also recognized by my BIOS.

Basically it's telling me I need the drivers for my HDD, but I bought
it OEM so there was no disc that came with the HDD itself. So it said I
had to create something like a mass storage location for the OS.

First thing I tried was disconnecting and reconnecting the SATA data
and power cables, which didn't work.

I Googled around and read something uploading the SATA drivers from my
motherboard installation disc, which I have. So during Vista setup I
popped that in, browsed the drive contents and found the folder with the
SATA drivers. After all that, it still told me that no drivers could be
found.

Next I tried going to the Western Digital site and downloading the Data
Lifeguard Tools. I installed those onto a folder, put the folder on a
USB drive, then started the OS installation over again. Essentially I
tried with the USB drive what I tried with the motherboard installation
disc. Found the right folder but again it says no drivers were found.

Next, I downloaded all the appropriate drivers I could find from the
manufacturers' Web sites and put them on the USB drive as well. They
aren't listed under those compatible with the hardware unless I changed
the OnChip SATA Type in the Integrated Peripheral Settings in my BIOS
from IDE to AHCI. Using the AHCI setting also allows me to see the HDD
in my BIOS, but it isn't listed as an AHCI device during the little AHCI
Device Detection Screen.

When I set the OnChip SATA Type to IDE, there's no AHCI Device
Detection Screen and the HDD shows up in my BIOS, but when I enter Vista
setup, it won't show the drivers off the USB drive unless I click off
the option to ignore drivers that aren't compatible with the hardware.

There's a couple things I haven't tired yet: 1) While keeping the boot
disk priority to Optical Drive first, put in my motherboard installation
disc rather than the Visa installation disc (this is just something I
pulled out of my [censored] so really not sure it'll work). 2) Use the
downloadable tools off of Western Digitial's site to set up the HDD on
another computer: essentially, create and format a bootable partition
using a system that already has an OS.

Thoughts?





See my answer to the previous post


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