Vista Tutorial - 1st installation of Vista - error 0x800701E7 and boot manager miss

Forgive me, I am completely new to Vista. This is my first install and my
first look the the OE.

I have just built a computer - Gigabyte GA-X38-DS4 775 with a 2.44ghz quad
core, 4 gb of RAM (DDR2 PC2-8500), Creative X-Fi Fatality sound card, GeForce
8600 (512mb) video, WD 1.0 Terabyte HD, WD 500gb HD, Asus DVD-ROM,
WriteMaster DVD Multi Drive. You get the picture. All HD and optical drives
are SATA.

Anyway, upon attempting to install Vista on a clean hard drive (everything
is brand new out of the box), I either get to a point where there is an error
stating that the boot manager is missing or corrupt, or I can actually get to
the Windows Vista screen to install and get to the point where it is
expanding the files -- when this error occurs:

Windows cannot access the required file D:/Sources/Install.wim. Make sure
all files required for installation are available and restart the
application. Error code 0x800701E7

I have looked for the SATA drivers on the mobo disk and the only ones I have
found pertain to RAID, which I am not running. I want to use the 500gb drive
as the primary (windows and applications) and the terabyte drive as a data
drive.

What am I doing wrong? I don't see any place to format the drive like you
could in WinXP.

I have tried going to the computer repair module, then to the command prompt
and trying bcdedit as instructed in another forum. That only caused another
error: "The boot configuration data store could not be opened. The system
cannot find the file specified".

Installing an OS should not be this difficult...but apparently I am either
missing something or I have a flaky Vista disk.

Please advise!

Thanks.

"SDC" <SDC@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:23151FE3-302F-4DB2-BBC9-39D55E18D20A@xxxxxxquadGeForcedriveserrortohavedrivepromptanotherYou will need to load the SATA drivers at the beginning of the install when
asked.

Though they should be on the cd that came with your mobo...if they are not
then you will need to download them from the mfg's website