Vista doesn't recognize my hard drive when installing

When I get to the part of vista installation where it asks which hard drive
I would like to install to it says there are no hard drives found. I have
checked multiple times that the hard drive is hooked up correctly, but they
are still not found. My hard drive is a Western Digital SATA SE Caviar
500GB.

Also, I have looked for SATA drivers that came with my mobo (GIGABYTE
GA-X38-DS4) but I don't see any that apply to what I need, as the only
drivers that they appear to have are ones for AHCI/RAID configurations which
I am not using.

If anyone has any ideas on what I should try to do I would greatly
appreciate it.

You do not need to use RAID in order to load the RAID drivers
peter

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"Dibond" <Dibond@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7F9D5FE2-8352-44A9-A51F-9ADD9431622D@microsoft.com...
> When I get to the part of vista installation where it asks which hard
> drive
> I would like to install to it says there are no hard drives found. I have
> checked multiple times that the hard drive is hooked up correctly, but
> they
> are still not found. My hard drive is a Western Digital SATA SE Caviar
> 500GB.
>
> Also, I have looked for SATA drivers that came with my mobo (GIGABYTE
> GA-X38-DS4) but I don't see any that apply to what I need, as the only
> drivers that they appear to have are ones for AHCI/RAID configurations
> which
> I am not using.
>
> If anyone has any ideas on what I should try to do I would greatly
> appreciate it.
>
>
>
>

Well, even when I use those drivers my HDD still doesn't show up :/

"peter" wrote:

> You do not need to use RAID in order to load the RAID drivers
> peter
>
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> "Dibond" <Dibond@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:7F9D5FE2-8352-44A9-A51F-9ADD9431622D@microsoft.com...
> > When I get to the part of vista installation where it asks which hard
> > drive
> > I would like to install to it says there are no hard drives found. I have
> > checked multiple times that the hard drive is hooked up correctly, but
> > they
> > are still not found. My hard drive is a Western Digital SATA SE Caviar
> > 500GB.
> >
> > Also, I have looked for SATA drivers that came with my mobo (GIGABYTE
> > GA-X38-DS4) but I don't see any that apply to what I need, as the only
> > drivers that they appear to have are ones for AHCI/RAID configurations
> > which
> > I am not using.
> >
> > If anyone has any ideas on what I should try to do I would greatly
> > appreciate it.
> >
> >
> >
> >

See John Barnett's[Msft Mvp] article on installing Vista on Sata drives
http://vistasupport.mvps.org/install...ta_drivers.htm
- See Step 14

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"Dibond" <Dibond@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:7F9D5FE2-8352-44A9-A51F-9ADD9431622D@microsoft.com...
> When I get to the part of vista installation where it asks which hard drive
> I would like to install to it says there are no hard drives found. I have
> checked multiple times that the hard drive is hooked up correctly, but they
> are still not found. My hard drive is a Western Digital SATA SE Caviar
> 500GB.
>
> Also, I have looked for SATA drivers that came with my mobo (GIGABYTE
> GA-X38-DS4) but I don't see any that apply to what I need, as the only
> drivers that they appear to have are ones for AHCI/RAID configurations which
> I am not using.
>
> If anyone has any ideas on what I should try to do I would greatly
> appreciate it.
>
>
>
>

On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:26:01 -0800, Dibond
<Dibond@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> When I get to the part of vista installation where it asks which hard drive
>I would like to install to it says there are no hard drives found. I have
>checked multiple times that the hard drive is hooked up correctly, but they
>are still not found. My hard drive is a Western Digital SATA SE Caviar
>500GB.
>
> Also, I have looked for SATA drivers that came with my mobo (GIGABYTE
>GA-X38-DS4) but I don't see any that apply to what I need, as the only
>drivers that they appear to have are ones for AHCI/RAID configurations which
>I am not using.
>
> If anyone has any ideas on what I should try to do I would greatly
>appreciate it.
>
In bios setup
SATA RAID/AHCI Mode (Intel ICH9R Southbridge): Disabled
SATA Port0-3 Native Mode (Intel ICH9R Southbridge): Enabled

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