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Vista boot-up error

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I installed a new SATA drive on an Nforce4, but the same problem will also occur with a 3rd party SATA controller slammed in to my SN25P:

During installation, and with every boot, the HD does not get detected. It says:

Verifying DMI Pool...

Disk Error

Press Key to continue

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Well, if I have the Vista install DVD in the drive, it will boot up, presumably the install CD picks up the HD at the very beginning. If the DVD is not in the drive, I cannot boot.

What happened? And how can I fix it?

Thanks.

PS: This happens upon every attempt to install, but XP + Linux would not do anything similar. This is not a multi-boot install, and all latest drivers are installed.
 
I am running the latest BIOS, and there is nothing at Shuttle's page suggesting that Vista wouldn't work. They even have a page for bringing that system up to speed with Vista, so it ought to work. Would a boot-loader or a Linux picking up the Vista in Grub do the trick maybe..?
 
Could it be the drive order setup in BIOS maybe?

Interested cause I'm going to move my SN25P to Vista shortly
once drivers catch up...
 
Good point... I will be back home in two hours or so. I was thinking the same thing earlier, because I believe I habe the drive in SATA port 2. However, this didn't matter for XP, Linux. Also, I am having it in no 2 because I believe port 1 to be DOA. However, as I said, the same effect showed with a clean install on a third party SATA board. I will update you as soon as I'm back home and played around with the settings.

There is another novelty for me with this first install of Vista, which is that it created 3 primary partitions on the drive - I didn't really think about / look out for the option for creating an extended one. I don't expect this to have any detrimental effect, however.

PS: Are there Powertoys available for Vista? It is the most painless way under XP to remap My Files and the Desktop to a dedicated partition. (I keep those, swap and system and other data separate for a clean backup scenari - I just popped in my Revdrive and everything goes nicely back into place from my previous XP)
 
I had a similar problem. I had to change the HD priority in the bios to boot to the SATA drive. For some reason the bios looks for an IDE drive to boot to even if no IDE drive is present.
 
lodingi said:
I had a similar problem. I had to change the HD priority in the bios to boot to the SATA drive. For some reason the bios looks for an IDE drive to boot to even if no IDE drive is present.
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Also - Vista does not always put the boot manager on the drive you install Vista on...so if you have multiple hard drives, you might just need to change the boot priority to a different one for it to pick up.
 
Thanks, I wasn's aware of boot priority, it did the trick. I haven't had a look at this BIOS since I installed the system 2 years ago. It works now fine.
 
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