need installing vista 5308

Need help installing Vista 5308

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I tried to installed VISTA on my AMD A64 4800 system with a DFI Nforce 4 motherboard.. The drive use for the install is on the Nvidia serial ata port. I have tried install from the CD within my existing Windows XP installation. Set up runs and finds the drive, loads some files and restarts the system. I then get an error that setup can't prepare the target drive. The install then removes some files and restarts and then I get a rollback error. Booting from the CD produces a windows setup can't find a valid system drive. Any help would be greately appreciated. Thanks,

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I tried to installed VISTA on my AMD A64 4800 system with a DFI Nforce 4 motherboard.. The drive use for the install is on the Nvidia serial ata port. I have tried install from the CD within my existing Windows XP installation. Set up runs and finds the drive, loads some files and restarts the system. I then get an error that setup can't prepare the target drive. The install then removes some files and restarts and then I get a rollback error. Booting from the CD produces a windows setup can't find a valid system drive. Any help would be greately appreciated. Thanks,

Do you have a SATA driver on floppy for Vista to use while installing? If you boot from the CD you might need it. Can you try moving the drive to a regular PATA port, installing then moving it back?
Tom Lake

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Hi,
I tried to installed VISTA on my AMD A64 4800 system with a DFI Nforce 4 motherboard.. The drive use for the install is on the Nvidia serial ata port. I have tried install from the CD within my existing Windows XP installation. Set up runs and finds the drive, loads some files and restarts the system. I then get an error that setup can't prepare the target drive. The install then removes some files and restarts and then I get a rollback error. Booting from the CD produces a windows setup can't find a valid system drive. Any help would be greately appreciated. Thanks,

Contact nVidia for instructions - their implementation requires multiple drivers to be installed in the correct order.
"catch36" wrote in message

Hi,
I tried to installed VISTA on my AMD A64 4800 system with a DFI Nforce 4 motherboard.. The drive use for the install is on the Nvidia serial ata port. I have tried install from the CD within my existing Windows XP installation. Set up runs and finds the drive, loads some files and restarts the system. I then get an error that setup can't prepare the target drive. The install then removes some files and restarts and then I get a rollback error. Booting from the CD produces a windows setup can't find a valid system drive. Any help would be greately appreciated. Thanks,

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