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Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: david30339 on March 24, 2008, 10:26:58 AM

Title: Vista Installation Not Detecting Hard Drive
Post by: david30339 on March 24, 2008, 10:26:58 AM

I had Vista installed on a SATA WD Raptor and everything was running great. I think when I installed phone drivers for my RAZR it screwed something up and Windows would no longer boot (error was 0xc000000f for winload.exe). I'm trying now to format the drive and reinstall Vista, but the Vista installation doesn't detect my Raptor even though it did when I first installed it. The BIOS does detect it. Any ideas would could be wrong? I've tried different drives on different ports and they all show up in the BIOS, but never in Vista installation. Thanks.

Title: Re: Vista Installation Not Detecting Hard Drive
Post by: david30339 on March 24, 2008, 03:20:50 PM

I think my hard drive is bad and vista installation was not liking the corrupted drive. I put in an XP disc and it found both the good and bad drives. I put a new drive in and am installing vista on it now. we'll see what happens.

Title: Re: Vista Installation Not Detecting Hard Drive
Post by: patio on March 24, 2008, 05:43:31 PM

The SATA drivers need to be installed very early on in the installation process...You will see a prompt to press F6 for SATA/RAID drivers.