I had already tried those and just tried them again and still nothing.

Reading that thread I linked it makes me think the hd might be messed
up but I'm not sure of the best way to reformat it. During the install
my HD doesn't even show up so I can't reformat it using that.


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FznCheese

fzncheese
give me your system and model number and ill locate the sata driver.
driver will have to loaded on a floppy or bootable thumb drive and
installed at prompt


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rive0108

T7600G Core2 Duo 2.67 GHZ
ATI Mobility Radeon x1900 256MB
1920x1200 WUXGA 17"
4GB DDR2 PC2-5300
Blu-ray BD-RE UJ-220
HP digital TV Tuner express card
200GB 7200RPM HDD RAID 0

FznCheese;876272 Wrote:
Some more system info:
Motherboard = Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P
HD = Seagate Barracuda 250GB
CPU = Intel core 2 Quad Q9300

Here are my motherboard, HD, and CPU. If these are not what you meant
by system and model number please let me know in a little more detail
(I'm not that big of a tech guy, wish I was though because then I could
already solve my own problem)

Thanks in advance


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FznCheese

Does the drive show up in post properly? If so, can you use command prompt
to see the drive and partition and format? Use diskpart ? to get command
list
"FznCheese" wrote in message
...

I had already tried those and just tried them again and still nothing.

Reading that thread I linked it makes me think the hd might be messed
up but I'm not sure of the best way to reformat it. During the install
my HD doesn't even show up so I can't reformat it using that.


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FznCheese

Already done, see above

"rive0108" wrote in message
...

fzncheese
give me your system and model number and ill locate the sata driver.
driver will have to loaded on a floppy or bootable thumb drive and
installed at prompt


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rive0108

T7600G Core2 Duo 2.67 GHZ
ATI Mobility Radeon x1900 256MB
1920x1200 WUXGA 17"
4GB DDR2 PC2-5300
Blu-ray BD-RE UJ-220
HP digital TV Tuner express card
200GB 7200RPM HDD RAID 0

John Barnes;876616 Wrote:
Does the drive show up in post properly? If so, can you use command
prompt
to see the drive and partition and format? Use diskpart ? to get
command
list
"FznCheese" wrote in message
...

I had already tried those and just tried them again and still
nothing.

Reading that thread I linked it makes me think the hd might be messed
up but I'm not sure of the best way to reformat it. During the
install
my HD doesn't even show up so I can't reformat it using that.


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FznCheese
when im in post it shows the HD real quick and then goes to the next
screen with no time for me to actually read what it says. And also how
do I get to command prompt in the bios?


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FznCheese

Finally!!!!!

I got Vista installer to recognize my HD!

A quick recap for those that might have the same problem in the futu

_*My_Problem:
*_-Fresh PC build with brand new HD (Seagate)
-When trying to instal vista, on the screen that asks where would you
like to Install Windows? My HD would not show up in the box.
-My HD was not AHCI or RAID setup
-both Gigabyte and Seagate said a single fresh SATA HD does NOT need
any addinoal drivers as long as you are not trying to do RAID or AHCI.

_*My_Trials:
*_-After messing around with drivers and bios settings I could still
not get it to work
-Found this ('http://forums.windrivers.com/showthread.php?t=81526'
(http://%28http://forums.windrivers.c...hp?t=81526%29))
thread. In it they pointed to the HD being messed up
-Using the Seagate Disc Wizard to create a boot disc I tried to
reformat my HD. This did not work saying it could not find a Seagate HD

_*My_Solution:
*_-I downloaded a third party freeware format utillity (Super Fdisk)
-Used Super Fdisk to create a boot disc
-used the boot disk to erase all partions
-Vista found my HD

Thanks for all your help!


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FznCheese

I need to know what your storage controller is.
type *device manager* into search bar @ start button (i.e., VIA VT6421
RAID/SATA controller)


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rive0108

T7600G Core2 Duo 2.67 GHZ
ATI Mobility Radeon x1900 256MB
1920x1200 WUXGA 17"
4GB DDR2 PC2-5300
Blu-ray BD-RE UJ-220
HP digital TV Tuner express card
200GB 7200RPM HDD RAID 0