Nice takeoff.

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Regards,

Richard Urban MVP
Microsoft Windows Shell/User


"Mark" <jmhonzell@insightbb.com> wrote in message
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> 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
> news:A5553FC1-59E8-4118-963C-6C86BB73257B@microsoft.com...[color=green]
>> 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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