Vista - Problem with clean install of Vista on SATA HD

M3A32-MVP Deluxe/WiFi-AP with a Phenom 9800 quad core CPU. The HD is a
320 GB WD SATA drive by Western Digital. I've formatted the disk and
attempted to install Vista. It does fine until the 1st reboot. After
the reboot I get a black screen with a blinking curser. Changing the
boot sequence does nothing to solve the problem, if I boot form the CD
it provokes the system to initiate the install again, from the HD,
blinking curser. The board has one IDE input and I've been successful
in installing the OS on an old IDE HD without problem. I've tried
several work-arounds with no success. Any ideas would be highly
appreciated.

Thanks

PS. Any suggestions on programs to recover data from a failed RAID 0
array?


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Try entering your BIOS and setting you SATA controller to IDE mode. Vista should then install to one of those drives without problems.

As for Data Recovery, your should give R-Studio a try (Disk Recovery Software and Hard Drive Recovery tool for Windows). When I recently lost the facility to use JBOD (Regular readers of my posts will know why), I was able to use R-Studio to "emulate" a JBOD array, and I was able to recover 99% of the data that I needed. Highly recommended.

Damn fine motherboard you got

Thanks Dzomlija, I have tried that with the same results.


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If you haven't resolved this yet - a shot in the dark. Your MB has several
different HD controlers on it. Try different connections to see if the
added ports on the Marvell chip need a special driver. That has been an
issue with some other boards.

Good Luck,
Len

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