HDD not compatible?

[guernseynick]

Hi, I have just made a new build but after I enter my cd key into the vista key program it says it cannot find disks, and I must look for drivers.

The SATA drive is recognised on the browse option for the drivers as "boot x" i think, but i cannot find any vista driversw for it.

Is it that it cannot find the disk or that it knows it is there but cant use it?

Any input appreciated!

Thanks, Nick

 

[PC eye]

Vista from what has been seen here does include some generic sata drivers just to be seeing the drive listed while XP often needed to see drivers copied and loaded from a floppy depending what older board was used. When booting up with the installation disk Vista does offer a separate section for creating and now formatting as well as resizing partitions not seen with previous versions.

The "boot x" is more or less expressed that way since a never used before drive won't see any labeling like naming your C drive something when right clicking on the icon and choosing the rename option to place some name or title like Vista primary there. The installer is simply selecting a random letter to represent the non existing logical drive until it is paritioned, formatted, and OSed.

If you have any doubts that Windows will go on try creating the new primary with the Vista tools there or another drive partitioning tool like Partition Magic or better the free Linux tool GParted and then running the installer to select the new primary created. The installer should automatically partition and format once you confirm the choice and see the settings for the size of the new primary partition the installer will then create.