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Old 03-10-2008   #2 (permalink)
Bob F.


 
 

Re: Vista install can't see SATA hard drive

"Jay" <Jay@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I am trying to do a clean install on a newly built system but Vista can not
> see my SATA hard drive. I have a Seagate 7200 barracuda 320 GB SATA HD
> and a
> Giga-byte P35 Mobo. Not knowing if it was a Vista issue or a hardware
> issue,
> I put in a XP installation disk and XP could recognize the drive. I
> stopped
> the install and tried loading some drivers off of the disk from Gigabyte.
> Vista still can not see the hard drive, but now when I throw the XP
> install
> disk back in, it can not see the hard drive either. Anyone know how to
> fix
> this?
>
>

What do you see with Seagate Disk Tools? That should be able to format the
drive and prepare it for an OS installation.

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