Re: Vista x64 installation troubles on nvidia nforce4 SATA drive

Drivers, if needed, would be on the motherboard manufacturer's website.

Understand that dual booting with XP will cause the loss of Vista system
restore points (and other VSS related files) each time you boot up XP. You
may want to look into using a third party boot manager that can hide the
Vista volume from XP.

"neildillamore" <> wrote in message
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> I've just downloaded the release version of Vista x64 from my MSDN
> subscription.
> However, I'm having trouble installing as it doesnt recognise my SATA hard
> disk. The disk is on nForce4 Ultra controller, but there's only one disk
> so
> no RAID array - just JBOD.
>
> Does anyone have any idea how I can get the instal to start?? Or where to
> get the correct drivers and how to instal them? I currently have XP MCE
> installed, but wanted to instal Vista as a Dual boot on a separate
> partition.
>
> By the way - I've tried XP drivers, and Beta2 drivers downloaded from
> nZone
> with no luck. Sometimes the instal just pops a message saying that the
> disk
> contains no drivers, and when it does list drivers and instals them it
> makes
> no difference to the list of drives - even after a refresh!!
>
> Any assistance would be brilliant - I've already wasted tons of time on
> this
> and am getting close to just giving up!
>

Did you check for a beta section?

The XP volsnap.sys checks system wide. It looks at all volumes. That's why
you should hide the Vista volume from XP.

I do not use a boot manager myself since I don't dual boot with XP on my
primary machine, only my test box where I don't have any important data
anyway. I have heard that Partition Magic is not a good choice with Vista.

Jane C posted "I have heard good reports about BootItNG from Terabyte.
Sorry, haven't got
URL to hand." a few days ago.

"neildillamore" <> wrote in message
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> Looking at the Gigabyte website they do not have any Vista drivers listed
> yet... I guess the only thing to do is wait
>
> By the way - If the two OS's are installed on separate partitions why
> would
> that affect the System Restore points?? Can you recommend a good / simple
> boot manager?
>
> Cheers,
> Neil.
>