An alternative to this is simply to disconnect all drives except for the
intended installation drive. Perform the install and then reconnect any
additional drives. The problem is that any drive above the installation
drive that is formatted as a Logical drive has an 8MB Unallocated space
preceding the Allocated space. For some reason, the Vista Installation disk
will attempt to load the boot sequence into this unallocated space on first
and then finish on the desired drive. This results in a corrupted boot
sequence. The installation may, or may not actually take place on the
intended drive and may be found to boot correctly if booted from the DVD
drive instead of the Hard Drive once installation is complete.

For whatever reason, it does not do this on all platform configurations with
mixtures of SATA/PATA and IDE drives.
Unfortunately, no patch will fix the installation DVD.


"Libertybell12" <Libertybell12@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Why is no one dressing this issue? I have seen many places where this is
> starting to be a hot topic. I did all the required checks and my system
> said
> it was good to go. I can only intall Vista on a IDE Drive but not my SATA
> Drive. IF I install on SATA it fails but if use the IDE with the SATA
> drives
> attached it see and accesses the SATA drives just find.
> It seems to be alot of finger pointing going on with no solution that
> fixes
> all. What does XP have that Vista doesn't? And, Yes I have tried all of
> the
> current recommended procedures to install VISTA with the updated drivers.
> NO
> I do not have a GigaByte, or any of the current known failed systems just
> cannot install to SATA.
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