AoSteve
July 13th, 2009, 04:38 PM
I have an old 80GB IDE drive I use for windows Vista. Yeah, slow and not powerful but it works. Well I got my new SATA drive and wanted to reinstall Vista on my older 250GB IDE drive that is quite a bit faster and larger. So..
I put the disk in and boot up to install Vista and get to the drive selection...
"No drives that meet the specification are detected..."
I tried everything, reset my entire BIOS!!!!! Nothing worked..
Come to find out... IF you have a current installation of Vista on the system it will NOT let you install vista. I pull out the 80GB and it works....
"Nice way to burst my bubble MS" Just another reason I love Ubuntu, I've had two different installs of Ubuntu on the same physical disk. This is rediculous that I can't install Vista on this system with my other install still attached.
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I put the disk in and boot up to install Vista and get to the drive selection...
"No drives that meet the specification are detected..."
I tried everything, reset my entire BIOS!!!!! Nothing worked..
Come to find out... IF you have a current installation of Vista on the system it will NOT let you install vista. I pull out the 80GB and it works....
"Nice way to burst my bubble MS" Just another reason I love Ubuntu, I've had two different installs of Ubuntu on the same physical disk. This is rediculous that I can't install Vista on this system with my other install still attached.
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