WD 640g needed a partition to install vista for the first time?

[jbauer2485]

I just got a new build and the WD harddrive was being detected by the bios but not during windows install. I tried so many configurations for hours and then finally hooked it up to an older computer which recognized the harddrive immediately. I then created a 100g partition within the drive, and retried it in the new build and it worked.

The question for you is, why would the partition be required for the new build to see it, what would be the optimum partition for the 640g? Also, can you reset the partition after windows is already installed rather than formatting and starting from scratch?

 

[bigdogchris]

You created the 100GB partition and you can see it, when you get to that point in the installation, since you see the partition and un-partitioned space, just delete the partition and create the full partition.