Vista - Re: Additional hard disk issues on Asus A8N Sli premium motherboardfor vista upgrade

10-09-2008

Craig Cockburn wrote:

Quote:

> have an unbranded PC desktop that is 3 years old and has windows XP
> Pro SP2 installed on a SATA-150 200Gb Maxtor 7200rpm drive. I have
> been attempting to upgrade it to Windows vista ultimate but installing
> over the top keeps failing at the end when disk.sys is loaded and
> there is insufficient space left to do a clean installation. I was
> looking to buy the SAMSUNG 500GB 16MB CACHE SPINPOINT (HD501LJ) SATA 2
> HDD and install that on the motherboard as well and leave the XP disk
> as-is allowing me to install Vista on the new disk on the hope that
> this is more successful (the disk is cheap relative to my time and
> also the cost of a new PC). Does anyone see any issues that I might
> run into from a hardware/compatibility point of view? I have an award
> bios pnp 5.1.39 (should the pnp option be turned on in the bios for
> vista?). The two drives will be running different SATA versions. Also,
> in terms of the vista upgrade has anyone with the disk.sys problem
> before been any more successful on a clean install Vs an upgrade?
>

Any help gratefully appreciated

thanks

Craig
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10-09-2008	#1 (permalink)
Craig Cockburn n/a posts	Re: Additional hard disk issues on Asus A8N Sli premium motherboardfor vista upgrade Craig Cockburn wrote: Quote: > have an unbranded PC desktop that is 3 years old and has windows XP > Pro SP2 installed on a SATA-150 200Gb Maxtor 7200rpm drive. I have > been attempting to upgrade it to Windows vista ultimate but installing > over the top keeps failing at the end when disk.sys is loaded and > there is insufficient space left to do a clean installation. I was > looking to buy the SAMSUNG 500GB 16MB CACHE SPINPOINT (HD501LJ) SATA 2 > HDD and install that on the motherboard as well and leave the XP disk > as-is allowing me to install Vista on the new disk on the hope that > this is more successful (the disk is cheap relative to my time and > also the cost of a new PC). Does anyone see any issues that I might > run into from a hardware/compatibility point of view? I have an award > bios pnp 5.1.39 (should the pnp option be turned on in the bios for > vista?). The two drives will be running different SATA versions. Also, > in terms of the vista upgrade has anyone with the disk.sys problem > before been any more successful on a clean install Vs an upgrade? > Any help gratefully appreciated thanks Craig -- http://www.siliconglen.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/siliconglen
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