vista says no suitable hard drive

i try to install vista berta 2 and it sees my hard drive and then when i say next it says it can not find a suitable drive. i don't remember the exact message, bvut that's the jist of it. the drive is seen and there's no issues with it being on raid or anything cus it's just a single drive on a normal pc. i told vista to format, it does and still says can't find a suitable drive, delete and partition, then vista says the same thing. inside windows xp before i tried to install i right clicked on the drive and said format, quick format. it's just a standard ide.
what's the deal here?

"AMDX2" wrote in message

i try to install vista berta 2 and it sees my hard drive and then when i say next it says it can not find a suitable drive. i don't remember the exact message, bvut that's the jist of it. the drive is seen and there's no issues with it being on raid or anything cus it's just a single drive on a normal pc. i told vista to format, it does and still says can't find a suitable drive, delete and partition, then vista says the same thing. inside windows xp before i tried to install i right clicked on the drive and said format, quick format. it's just a standard ide.
what's the deal here?

Do you have SATA drives? Did you install the drivers?
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"AMDX2" wrote in message i try to install vista berta 2 and it sees my hard drive and then when i say next it says it can not find a suitable drive. i don't remember the exact message, bvut that's the jist of it. the drive is seen and there's no issues with it being on raid or anything cus it's just a single drive on a normal pc. i told vista to format, it does and still says can't find a suitable drive, delete and partition, then vista says the same thing. inside windows xp before i tried to install i right clicked on the drive and said format, quick format. it's just a standard ide.
what's the deal here?
Do you have SATA drives? Did you install the drivers?

A standard IDE - but is it NTFS formatted? Vista won't install on FAT32...
Roy

If you guys know XP at all you'll know it can't format fat32. So when you right click on a hard drive from wihtin XP and you say format it is only ntfs.
It worked, but seems Vista installer as of now is extremly pickey. I don't know what I did to get it to work.
"Roy Coorne" wrote in message

Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, OE/WM schrieb: "AMDX2" wrote in message i try to install vista berta 2 and it sees my hard drive and then when i say next it says it can not find a suitable drive. i don't remember the exact message, bvut that's the jist of it. the drive is seen and there's no issues with it being on raid or anything cus it's just a single drive on a normal pc. i told vista to format, it does and still says can't find a suitable drive, delete and partition, then vista says the same thing. inside windows xp before i tried to install i right clicked on the drive and said format, quick format. it's just a standard ide.
what's the deal here?
Do you have SATA drives? Did you install the drivers?
A standard IDE - but is it NTFS formatted? Vista won't install on FAT32...
Roy

AMDX2 schrieb:

If you guys know XP at all you'll know it can't format fat32. So when you right click on a hard drive from wihtin XP and you say format it is only ntfs. ...

XP *can* format logical drives smaller than 32 (?) GB in FAT32. Yes, Sir.
Roy

I had no idea because I've never gotten a choice. Sorry.
"Roy Coorne" wrote in message

AMDX2 schrieb: If you guys know XP at all you'll know it can't format fat32. So when you right click on a hard drive from wihtin XP and you say format it is only ntfs. ...
XP *can* format logical drives smaller than 32 (?) GB in FAT32. Yes, Sir.
Roy

Did you remember to provide the Required Beta SATA or SCSI Raid Driver's for your Mother Board via Supported External Media Method's?
"AMDX2" wrote in message

i try to install vista berta 2 and it sees my hard drive and then when i say next it says it can not find a suitable drive. i don't remember the exact message, bvut that's the jist of it. the drive is seen and there's no issues with it being on raid or anything cus it's just a single drive on a normal pc. i told vista to format, it does and still says can't find a suitable drive, delete and partition, then vista says the same thing. inside windows xp before i tried to install i right clicked on the drive and said format, quick format. it's just a standard ide.
what's the deal here?

I had trouble with this myself. Vista installation rejected the partition that I created in DISKPART (and formatted as ntfs). I found that if I used an XP installation disk to format the drive (and then aborted the XP install and rebooted), Vista installation worked. I think that it may have succeeded if I had not created or formatted any partitions, but I haven't verified it (as this was on my dev box and I needed to get it up and running so I could keep working).
For what it's worth, James -- This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Use of any included script samples are subject to the terms specified at http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.htm "AMDX2" wrote in message

If you guys know XP at all you'll know it can't format fat32. So when you right click on a hard drive from wihtin XP and you say format it is only ntfs.
It worked, but seems Vista installer as of now is extremly pickey. I don't know what I did to get it to work.
"Roy Coorne" wrote in message Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, OE/WM schrieb: "AMDX2" wrote in message i try to install vista berta 2 and it sees my hard drive and then when i say next it says it can not find a suitable drive. i don't remember the exact message, bvut that's the jist of it. the drive is seen and there's no issues with it being on raid or anything cus it's just a single drive on a normal pc. i told vista to format, it does and still says can't find a suitable drive, delete and partition, then vista says the same thing. inside windows xp before i tried to install i right clicked on the drive and said format, quick format. it's just a standard ide.
what's the deal here?
Do you have SATA drives? Did you install the drivers?
A standard IDE - but is it NTFS formatted? Vista won't install on FAT32...
Roy

This is not raid nor sata. no drivers needed since the only time you need drivers is to get vista to see the drive. if it sees it you don't need drivers.
"Kevin John Panzke" wrote in message

Did you remember to provide the Required Beta SATA or SCSI Raid Driver's for your Mother Board via Supported External Media Method's?
"AMDX2" wrote in message i try to install vista berta 2 and it sees my hard drive and then when i say next it says it can not find a suitable drive. i don't remember the exact message, bvut that's the jist of it. the drive is seen and there's no issues with it being on raid or anything cus it's just a single drive on a normal pc. i told vista to format, it does and still says can't find a suitable drive, delete and partition, then vista says the same thing. inside windows xp before i tried to install i right clicked on the drive and said format, quick format. it's just a standard ide.
what's the deal here?