Problem installing vista on Sata II Hard Drive

[mello_newf]

Hello everyone. I have just built my first computer and cant get vista ultimate to install on my Barracuda 7200.10 SATA 3.0Gb/s 500-GB Hard Drive. When I get to the screen that asks you to select your HD to install vista on, it recognizes my drive but has a message on the bottom of the screen stating...

"Windows cannot be installed to this hard disk space. The partition contains one or more dynamic volumes that are not supported for installation."

Is their anything I can do to get windows installed on this HD?


SYS Info...

Cpu - AMD athlon 64 x2 5200+ socket am2 (With Tt MaxOrb cpu cooler)
Mobo - ASUS m2n32-SLI-Deluxe wireless edition
Ram - Kingston HyperX ddr2 800
Video Card - xfx geforce 8800 gts 640mb (with extra fan card)
PSU - Xion Supernova Modular Cable 600W
HD - Barracuda 7200.10 SATA 3.0Gb/s 500-GB Hard Drive (ST3500630AS)

[oily_17]

It should give you the option to format/partition your drive while installing Vista.

Will need to be primary partition till install OS on.

[mello_newf]

that option isn't available. The only option I have is to update drivers.

Any other ideas?
thanx

[oily_17]

that option isn't available. The option I have is to update drivers.

Any other ideas?
thanx

When you get to the option "Where do you want to install ..."

Click "Drive options"

You should be able to format/partition there.

[mello_newf]

It won't let me select it. It's grayed out.

[oily_17]

That's how I done it on my Ultimate...cant figure out why it is grayed out??

[oily_17]

Is it an upgrade version or full one??

[DRDNA]

sounds like upgrade version:cry: upgrade version needs to have the previous windows directory on the drive that the upgrade is going to.....at least for me it did.

[Jimmy 2004]

Do a complete format with whichever Seagate tool is used for formatting, then try again.

[mello_newf]

its the full retail version. It recognizes the drive but on the bottom of the screen it says vista can't be installed to this particular drive? I think it's saying the drive format is not capable of running vista...

[oily_17]

A step by step guide for each can be found here

http://www.theeldergeekvista.com/

[mello_newf]

Do a complete format with whichever Seagate tool is used for formatting, then try again.

I found a program called DiscWizardSetup on the sergate site but I have no way to use it. my only other computer is old and doesn't support sata drives and I have a laptop that i'm using now. Is their a driver I can download that will fix this because the load driver option is available when trying to install vista to the drive?

[mello_newf]

A step by step guide for each can be found here

http://www.theeldergeekvista.com/

I went to the site but it just looks like it had regular instructions on how to install vista nothing on how to solve my problem. Unless I missed something?

thanks for your help guys, it's really appreciated.

[Ade]

I think maybe your HDD is not support for vista OS. I have read a magazine that telling about hardware that all have ready or not for vista or you can contact the OS site.

[Jimmy 2004]

I think maybe your HDD is not support for vista OS. I have read a magazine that telling about hardware that all have ready or not for vista or you can contact the OS site.

This is a pretty standard drive, it should be supported.

I found a program called DiscWizardSetup on the sergate site but I have no way to use it. my only other computer is old and doesn't support sata drives and I have a laptop that i'm using now. Is their a driver I can download that will fix this because the load driver option is available when trying to install vista to the drive?

Well, I've uploaded all of the files which SeaTools puts on a floppy disk - if you can make a bootable CD and put all of these files on it then that might let you run it and format - not sure though.

[infrared]

Is the drive formatted with the ntfs file system? I don't think it will work with fat32 or older.

Jimmy's advice should work.

[mello_newf]

Alright I think it is fat32 as thats not supported by vista. Ill try to install that stuff from Jimmy and let you know what happens tomorrow.

Thanks again for the help.

[mkeramaty]

If that doesn’t work my roommate had the exact same problem about 2 hours after you made your first post. His hardware is almost identical to yours and he solved the problem by making the hard drive the primary boot device and the DVD drive secondary. Install went over without a hitch. A little odd, because before you and him I had never even heard of this problem before, but it solved it!

[mello_newf]

Well I got it to work. I just put in my windows xp disk and it let me format it to NTFS, then i put in vista and it worked fine after that. It's strange that vista wouldn't give me the option to format the drive but whatever.

Thanks for all the help everyone.

[Casheti]

I've had loads of problems installing Vista on my hard drive.

Don't even BOTHER trying to sort it on Vista boot screen. Just do all the formatting and the volumes on XP boot disk, then the installation itself with Vista.

That's the only advice I can give.