No Hard drive detection during vista setup??

[shanegarnett]

Hi Everyone, I bought a new PC that had windows vista installed, I tried to install XP on it, formated both of the 320 gb drives and with no sucess I couldnt get windows xp going, so I flaged that idea and when i tried to get vista back on by rebooting with the vista dvd, during setup it wont detect any of my 2 320 gb hard drives, so there is no where to install windows to?????????????? I bought a 80 gb hard drive and it detected it fine, So i have vista installed on the 80 gb I just want to know why vista wont find these hard drives when they work perfectly well? Any help would be good, Thanks

its vista ultimimate, q6600 2.4
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[inversekinetix]

are the 320GB HDs in a RAID configuration? I don't think vista will detect them without 3rd party drivers during install(i might be wrong)

[shanegarnett]

Yeah I dont actually know much about hard drives but do you know where to get these hd drivers that i may need, at setup it ask if ya want to load hd device drivers to locate hd. My problem is that I can only have 2 hard drives plugged in, I have a 320 gb un plugged, because i have the 80 gb in its place so i can have windows. would love to get rid of that 80 gb

[SunnyRabbiera]

Vista is finicky this way, its a shame as its intended to detect newer hardware and its a major space eater...
Its also a shame that XP wont work, on a personal level I like it much better then vista at least in terms of it not hogging up memory.