Well, I actually found a fix. Thought it doesn't make sense to me. I have 3
SATA drives, in the BIOS I have the raid feature turned off, so they are
just 3 indepentadant drives. The 4th drive is a IDE drive. Again, I tried
telling Vista to install to all of the drives and it said no to them all.
I then unplugged all the drives, except the one I wanted and it work.
Through trial and error, it seems Vista will not install to the SATA drives,
if an IDE drive is present. Once I unplugged the IDE drive, it worked fine.
What I don't get is why it wouldn't install to the IDE drive. I guess it's
something in the BIOS or at least the way Vista translates something that XP
doesn't care about.
Note, I was able to plug the IDE drive back in and everything still works,
so it seems to be limited to installing.
"Steve Lunn" <> wrote in message
news:...
>I had a similar problem on a Asus A8N SLi -also an nforce4 mobo. Vista
>could not install on my SATA-RAID array because it was unsuitable - but it
>did manage to rewrite the raid disks boot sector! I put in an IDE disk and
>installed on that but still needed to load the nforce SATA and Raid drivers
>from a floppy so I could access the raid array.
> What a mess!
> Steve
>
> "Dale "Mad_Murdock" White" <> wrote in message
> news: m...
>> OK this one has be a bit perplexed. Im trying to install Vista RC1 on my
>> system that is a AMD running the Abit KN8 mobo (which is the Nvidia
>> Nforce 4 Ultra board) It has native Sata support, so at least under XP I
>> don't have to load any special drivers for the disks in order to install
>> it.
>>
>> I originally was going to install vista on a Disk I already had, but
>> During the install process Vista shows me my list of hard disks and I
>> pick the drive I want and it tells me Vista can not find a suitable hard
>> disk. This strikes me as odd, since it sees the disks. So I go ahead and
>> allow Vista to delete the disk, recreate the partition and format the
>> disks and it still tells me it can't find a suitable disks.
>>
>> I then get aother disk (sata) and removed my current Sata drive that runs
>> XP and plug it in, One again, Vista finds all the disks I have in my
>> system (total of 4) to include the new disks, but when I tell it to use
>> that disk, it tells me it can't find a suitable disk.
>>
>> I have Vista RC1 installed on another system that's an Intel based CPU
>> with a Abit IC7-G board (intel 875P chipset) that worked just fine and
>> dandy.
>>
>> I then picked every disks that Vista showed me and every one came back
>> with a unsuitable disks message
>>
>> I'm at a loss, if Vista sees the disk(s) doesn't that pretty much imply
>> it should be able to install it's files on it ?
>>
>> just an OBYW, I've updated the Mobo's BIOS to see if that would help, but
>> same thing.
>>
>> Thanks for any insight.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>>
>>
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