Install Windows Vista x64 on nvidia nforce 4 SATA?

Posted: 10-08-2006, 12:03 AM

Martin Stein

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Got RC2 64-bit on DVD and it goes well until the "Install Windows" dialog,
where you pick the partition. I have 2 SATA drives on the nvidia (ASUS
A8N-Sli Deluxe). It won't install on the SATA drive "Windows is unable to
find a system volume that meets its criteria for installation." error message
appears.
I deleted the drive, created a new partition and reformatted and still no
luck. Same error.
I do not use RAID, just the SATA connector on the motherboard on a 160GB
disk. XP installed on the other exact same drive.
Are there any special drivers I have to load? What does the error message
mean - which criteria?

Thanks!

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ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe (w new chipset fan)
AMD 3200+ Venice w Zalman 7700AlCu fan
2x Seagate 160GB SATA
1x WD 250GB PATA
XFX 7800GT OC
2GB Corsair TWIN2048C2

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Re: Install Windows Vista x64 on nvidia nforce 4 SATA?

Posted: 10-08-2006, 02:20 AM

"Martin Stein" <MartinStein@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BE6D4080-658A-4CCF-9DC7-AB7A77F55CCC@microsoft.com...

> Got RC2 64-bit on DVD and it goes well until the "Install Windows" dialog,
> where you pick the partition. I have 2 SATA drives on the nvidia (ASUS
> A8N-Sli Deluxe). It won't install on the SATA drive "Windows is unable to
> find a system volume that meets its criteria for installation." error
> message
> appears.
> I deleted the drive, created a new partition and reformatted and still no
> luck. Same error.
> I do not use RAID, just the SATA connector on the motherboard on a 160GB
> disk. XP installed on the other exact same drive.
> Are there any special drivers I have to load? What does the error message
> mean - which criteria?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -------------------------
> ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe (w new chipset fan)
> AMD 3200+ Venice w Zalman 7700AlCu fan
> 2x Seagate 160GB SATA
> 1x WD 250GB PATA
> XFX 7800GT OC
> 2GB Corsair TWIN2048C2

During boot up from the DVD, press F6 when it tells you to. Have the SATA
drivers ready on a floppy disk so they can be installed.

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Re: Install Windows Vista x64 on nvidia nforce 4 SATA?

Posted: 10-08-2006, 07:21 AM

"Richard Urban" wrote:

> During boot up from the DVD, press F6 when it tells you to. Have the SATA
> drivers ready on a floppy disk so they can be installed.

No driver installation was necessary, the disk drives were correctly
recognized. Yet installation was not possible on them.
What worked was disconnecting all other drives in the system. Then the
installation went through. Appears to be a bug in the installer.
I had another SATA drive on the nforce4 and one IDE drive on the nvidia PATA
controller. In addition I had a SIL 0680 PATA (non-RAID) card with one PATA
drive installed.

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