ICanHazVista
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If you have a drivers disk the installer usually gives you the option to install them early on in the process, if my memory serves me right.
Doesn't your BIOS allow ATA or IDE (as against AHCI or RAID)? If it does I would try that as maybe the installer can't find AHCI drivers.
If your having ongoing issues installing I would post a question here: http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/117366-clean-install-full-version-vista.html
Sorry I didn't get back to you earlier.
Not sure about the BIOS (I don't have the PC around right now), but as I very unclearly said in my previous post, I finally found the correct driver and gave it to Vista when you select the install partition. It took it gladly but the Windows install still failed at the end.
I gave up on installing Vista : the problem was after SP1 and/or SP2 install, since I could complete a Vista RTM install (that means there were no drivers issues, right ?) but could not complete the SP1 standalone install with or without installing all the original drivers and their updates listed by HP. I thought I could bypass this by installing Vista with SP2 preinstalled, but this time I could not even complete the initial Windows install.
So I finally installed Windows 7 Pro and it went without a hitch, is up-to-date and runs smoothly. It initially wasn't an option since I didn't have a license for it, but you gotta do what you gotta do...