Vista installation on 500 gb hard drive problems

[takatakaman]

Hey guys, I'm currently running XP with 3 internal and 1 external hard drives
internal: 80IDE, 80SATA, 500 SATA
external: 320gb

anyways, my 500gb HD is connected to a pci-e card and when I tried installing vista on it, it only detected 8mb (full, clean installation). It lists 8mb as the capacity AND as the unallocated space.
I tried formatting it using XP, but it still gives me the same result.
Vista detects all other hard drive capacities fine.

Any ideas why? Is it because it's attached to a pci card?


thanks in advance

[tantone]

You may need to load the drivers for the sata pci card at the beginning of the install. press F6 and have the drivers ready on a floppy.

Another possibility is simply that Vista doesn't support that hardware. At the moment, there are plenty of hardware issues out there.

[takatakaman]

hmmm alrite thanks, I'll try it out

[Midknyte]

next time, state the hardware you have. otherwise, it's just a shot in the dark.

did you check the card manufacturer's website for support?