Well, I got a copy of Vista Ultimate yesterday, and had quite a bit of
trouble isntalling it. I eventually got it to work, but I had to unplug two
of my hard drives, tog et Vista to even install.



My question is, is this just a problem with Vista Ultimate, or is it the
case for all versions of Vista?

What type of hard drives? SATA and IDE? Which ones did you have to remove?
Do you have a RAID controller that would require a driver?

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"ebonwolf" <mwfisher@houston.rr.com> wrote in message
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> Well, I got a copy of Vista Ultimate yesterday, and had quite a bit of
> trouble isntalling it. I eventually got it to work, but I had to unplug
> two of my hard drives, tog et Vista to even install.
>
> My question is, is this just a problem with Vista Ultimate, or is it the
> case for all versions of Vista?

On some M/B's with an early implementation of SATA (such as mine) you will
have to unplug any IDE drives to install Vista to a SATA drive. Vista will
try to write boot code to the first available IDE drive, instead of placing
it all on the SATA drive where it should reside.

It's not a Vista problem. It is a problem with my M/B, and those of many
others with older computers.

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"ebonwolf" <mwfisher@houston.rr.com> wrote in message
news:OP$b3ApRHHA.4448@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Well, I got a copy of Vista Ultimate yesterday, and had quite a bit of
> trouble isntalling it. I eventually got it to work, but I had to unplug
> two of my hard drives, tog et Vista to even install.
>
> My question is, is this just a problem with Vista Ultimate, or is it the
> case for all versions of Vista?