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SATA troubles

RohanRohan Registered User regular
edited July 2007 in Games and Technology
I just received my new 250GB SATA2 drive, and I installed XP on it when it arrived. I also want to dual-boot with Vista, so I used Partition Magic to split the size of the drive in half. Both partitions use NTFS and are classed as "Primary" by Partition Magic. However, Vista refuses to install on either of these partitions, saying that it could not find any drive suitable for installation, or something along those lines. I downloaded Vista drivers for the onboard SATA controller, but though it will load the driver for my add-on PCI IDE/SATA card (which I'm not using for the SATA drive), it won't pick up on any driver for my on-board chipset. I'd really prefer not to have to put Vista on an old IDE drive, I want to take advantage of the speed offered by the SATA drive.

Can anyone help? My motherboard is the MSI G965M, which uses the (terrible) JMicron IDE/SATA chip.

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  • GameHatGameHat Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Sounds like a conflict between Vista and Partition Magic

    Do you *need* an XP dual boot?

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  • RohanRohan Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    There are incompatibilities with some games in Vista, such as Hitman Blood Money, so I will use XP for these games. However, I've just upgraded my pc and bought a GeForce 8800 GTS card so that I can play DirectX10 games that'll be coming out this year and next, so I need Vista.

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    ...and I thought of how all those people died, and what a good death that is. That nobody can blame you for it, because everyone else died along with you, and it is the fault of none, save those who did the killing.

    Nothing's forgotten, nothing is ever forgotten
  • victor_c26victor_c26 Chicago, ILRegistered User regular
    edited July 2007
    The safest and easiest way to dual-boot a system is just using seperate HDDs.

    Is it cost effective for you to buy another hard drive for Vista?

    Edit: Wait, can the Vista installer even see the drive in question? From the sound of your post (JMicron issue) it sounds like it can't even see the physical drive.

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  • RohanRohan Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Oh, it can see it... it just refuses to use it, saying that it doesn't meet it's criteria or something.

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    ...and I thought of how all those people died, and what a good death that is. That nobody can blame you for it, because everyone else died along with you, and it is the fault of none, save those who did the killing.

    Nothing's forgotten, nothing is ever forgotten
  • taliosfalcontaliosfalcon Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    All i can contribute is that i've used partition magic in the exact same way (to split my xp partition into two for a vista install) and didn't have any problems, so its not partition magics fault

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  • RohanRohan Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    On a SATA drive?

    Edit - What the hell, I'll just split my 120GB IDE drive in two, then re-install XP and then Vista, using the SATA drive for storage... which is a damn shame, as I wanted the speed of the SATA drive for Windows.

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    ...and I thought of how all those people died, and what a good death that is. That nobody can blame you for it, because everyone else died along with you, and it is the fault of none, save those who did the killing.

    Nothing's forgotten, nothing is ever forgotten
  • taliosfalcontaliosfalcon Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Rohan wrote: »
    On a SATA drive?

    Edit - What the hell, I'll just split my 120GB IDE drive in two, then re-install XP and then Vista, using the SATA drive for storage... which is a damn shame, as I wanted the speed of the SATA drive for Windows.
    yes,SATA seagate 7200.10, and i'm using a motherboard with a jmicron controller, but i dont think my sata drives are actually plugged into the jmicron controller

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