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[rickrh72]

Hi
I tried to load the drivers from Gugabyte and had no sucess. I went into the bios and set the first boot device to cdrom, then put the vista disk in the drive and hit f10 to save and exit. When the window pops up and asks where do you want to install windows. It says no drivers can be found load drivers to provide a mass storage drive for installation. When I click load drivers it scans disk But dosn't put any thing in the select driver to be installed box. When I put the disk in the drive that came with the MOBO I can browse and find the drivers and it will put them in the select driver to install box but it will still look for unfound drivers. Every thing stops at this point. I can get a window up that tells me I have to Format C to use it but when I click OK windows cant find the HD. I can find the HD in the post and when I look in the bios. Also I noticed that the little speeker makes a continuous sound. When I boot I hear one beep that is louder than the continuos sound. I don't think this is normal, what could it be? Thanks for your help. Have fun, Rick

 

[Swampster]

You don't tell us what type of hard drive you are trying to install to other than the brand, but based on your description I will presume it is an SATA drive.

Go to your motherboard CD and under the RAID/SATA department it should give instructions or a utility to create an install floppy. Follow their procedure and have the floppy in the drive when you boot the system from the install CD/DVD.

You will see an information bar at the bottom of the window instructing you to press F6 to install drivers for your HDD. I usually hit it about 6 times just to make sure it gets answers the key-click. When it gets to the point where it wants to see the drivers it will then locate them on the floppy and ask for your confirmation as to which one to install.

Some RAID/SATA controllers need two drivers, in which case you will see both of them and they will have a Required notation after their name. Click on the first one to install it, then when it takes you back to the screen that asked you for the driver, click S and select the next one.

 

[rickrh72]

It is a
western digital Caviar se16 500 gb SATA. Thanks for the info Have fun, Rick

 

[NotQuiteAPCGuru]

That's peculiar. The beeping would have something to do with the Motherboard. I had 2 of those drives (not set for RAID) not set for my P5B Deluxe mainboard and Vista went right into the computer, no problems at all.

Was a real bear to go back to XP though, I will say that.

Does the motherboard detect the HDD? Can you see it in the BIOS?

EDIT: I also thought of another thing. Perhaps you could try deleting the partition on the drive. I had brand new, unpartitioned and unformatted drives straight from the manufacturer and didn't have any issues.

Hope this is some help.

 

[rickrh72]

The MOBo shows the drive in the post and I can find it in the BIOS.
Wehen I try to format the drive window won't let me. the light for HD activity flashes like it is working. Thanks Have fun, Rick