PermissiveDragon

problem solved. checked my win2k and xp disks....they saw both hard drives.
even though i have raid disabled it has still taken up roughly 25 gigs of
space on my second drive leaving me with only about 33 to play with. i used
the XP disk manager to re-partition and reformat the remainder of the drive.
Vista only then saw both drives. still strikes me as odd that it didn't see
the primary drive though.

"PermissiveDragon" wrote:

> i have a dual boot system...on 1 hard drive and a second hard drive just
> there for storage unused but formatted. Vista doesn't even recognize or can't
> identify either hard drive to begin an installation. i wanted to try it on
> the empty drive booting from the dvd. then tried to install from the xp
> operating system. same dumb luck. any one else have this trouble? this may
> not look good when going for my A+ certification exam at this rate. both
> drives are 60 gigabytes each. a 7200 rpm magnetic data model md600bb-00caa1
> and a 5400 rpm samsung model sv6003h.