Have you installed Vista? No floppy, no F6. There is a point for
installing SATA drivers if necessary.

"Adam Albright" <AA@ABC.net> wrote in message
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> >"[cookie]" <si_cookie@hotmail.com(donotspam)> wrote in message
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>>> Hi one and all,
>>>
>>> Not sure if anyone can help me with this as the problem seems widespread
>>> in
>>> various forms.
>
> Installing Vista on a SATA drive can present special problems.
> Generally if you are doing a clean install to a SATA drive you need to
> use the F6 method to PRELOAD SATA drivers very early on in the install
> process or Vista won't be able to boot. You also will need a floppy
> diskette to write these drivers to. You should find specific details
> in your motherboard manaul or the vendor's web site, Vista will prompt
> you went to hit F6 or whatever else your flavor of BIOS needs. If you
> do a install in place AND you can find find SATA drivers that work in
> BOTH XP and Vista then you can do a overwrite of your exhisting OS IF
> you install the new SATA drivers first. There could be other issues, I
> sure had some and still do, but I thankfully installed Vista to a IDE
> ATA drive and only use my SATA drives for data storage.
>
> If you're going to use RAID do NOT try to set that up first, way too
> convoluted, do that later after Vista is up and running.
>
>

On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:12:16 -0700, "John Barnes" <jbarnes@email.net>
wrote:

>Have you installed Vista? No floppy, no F6. There is a point for
>installing SATA drivers if necessary.

????
>
>"Adam Albright" <AA@ABC.net> wrote in message
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>> >"[cookie]" <si_cookie@hotmail.com(donotspam)> wrote in message
>>>news:E946EE3C-403B-44E8-8FC5-96D2643031AD@microsoft.com...
>>>> Hi one and all,
>>>>
>>>> Not sure if anyone can help me with this as the problem seems widespread
>>>> in
>>>> various forms.
>>
>> Installing Vista on a SATA drive can present special problems.
>> Generally if you are doing a clean install to a SATA drive you need to
>> use the F6 method to PRELOAD SATA drivers very early on in the install
>> process or Vista won't be able to boot. You also will need a floppy
>> diskette to write these drivers to. You should find specific details
>> in your motherboard manaul or the vendor's web site, Vista will prompt
>> you went to hit F6 or whatever else your flavor of BIOS needs. If you
>> do a install in place AND you can find find SATA drivers that work in
>> BOTH XP and Vista then you can do a overwrite of your exhisting OS IF
>> you install the new SATA drivers first. There could be other issues, I
>> sure had some and still do, but I thankfully installed Vista to a IDE
>> ATA drive and only use my SATA drives for data storage.
>>
>> If you're going to use RAID do NOT try to set that up first, way too
>> convoluted, do that later after Vista is up and running.
>>
>>

In article <7ht803lfa3fotqj6i8taj30c60egua5ork@4ax.com>, Adam Albright
wrote:

> >Have you installed Vista? *No floppy, no F6. *There is a point for*
> >installing SATA drivers if necessary.
>
> ????

VISTA is no longer tied to a floppy for those "F6" files as XP is --
you can use a USB thumb drive etc.

Nor do you hit F6. When you get to the 'Where do you want to install
Vista?' screen you click on the Load Driver button in the lower left of the
screen.\\


"Hugh Wyn Griffith" <huwyngr@unspam.tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message
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> In article <7ht803lfa3fotqj6i8taj30c60egua5ork@4ax.com>, Adam Albright
> wrote:
>
>> >Have you installed Vista? No floppy, no F6. There is a point for
>> >installing SATA drivers if necessary.
>>
>> ????
>
> VISTA is no longer tied to a floppy for those "F6" files as XP is --
> you can use a USB thumb drive etc.
>

In article <OJOL2GybHHA.5052@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>, John Barnes wrote:

> Nor do you hit F6.

That's why I put F6 in quotes:

<< for those "F6" files >>

to describe the operation familiar to XP users.