dell hard drive installation issue

I have attempted numerous times to do a clean install of the Beta2 on my Dell Dimension 9100 system, which previously had XP Professional SP2, but the setup keeps telling me that it cannot install on any of the volumes on the hard drive. I have deleted all the old partitions and formatted them with the setup wizard, yet it continues to say the same thing. Right now I am using boot disks that have Seagate's DiscWizard program to completely erase the hard disk drive and then I will attempt to install again. If it fails again, what should I do and why is this happening?

Edmund1976 wrote:

I have attempted numerous times to do a clean install of the Beta2 on my Dell Dimension 9100 system, which previously had XP Professional SP2, but the setup keeps telling me that it cannot install on any of the volumes on the hard drive. I have deleted all the old partitions and formatted them with the setup wizard, yet it continues to say the same thing. Right now I am using boot disks that have Seagate's DiscWizard program to completely erase the hard disk drive and then I will attempt to install again. If it fails again, what should I do and why is this happening?

When I installed build 5456, after formatting the partition where I was going to put Vista the install told me it cannot. I've just clicked the red close button, not rebooted the computer, and restarted the installation. When I arrived to the select HD window, it worked. Perhaps it'll work for you
-- Christophe Roy

You require the SATA drivers for your machine. The XP that Dell provides has it included. Vista does not. It might work with the XP version. Go to support.dell.com and download the SATA drivers and create a floppy. When you are installing Vista, there is an option to load disk drivers. Follow that prompt.
Tom "Edmund1976" wrote in message

I have attempted numerous times to do a clean install of the Beta2 on my Dell Dimension 9100 system, which previously had XP Professional SP2, but the setup keeps telling me that it cannot install on any of the volumes on the hard drive. I have deleted all the old partitions and formatted them with the setup wizard, yet it continues to say the same thing. Right now I am using boot disks that have Seagate's DiscWizard program to completely erase the hard disk drive and then I will attempt to install again. If it fails again, what should I do and why is this happening?

As the hard drive was a Seagate hard drive, I used their DiscWizard program to write 0s to the entire hard drive. After it completed, which took a few hours, I was able to install Vista with no issues.
"Tom Scales" wrote:

You require the SATA drivers for your machine. The XP that Dell provides has it included. Vista does not. It might work with the XP version. Go to support.dell.com and download the SATA drivers and create a floppy. When you are installing Vista, there is an option to load disk drivers. Follow that prompt.
Tom "Edmund1976" wrote in message I have attempted numerous times to do a clean install of the Beta2 on my Dell Dimension 9100 system, which previously had XP Professional SP2, but the setup keeps telling me that it cannot install on any of the volumes on the hard drive. I have deleted all the old partitions and formatted them with the setup wizard, yet it continues to say the same thing. Right now I am using boot disks that have Seagate's DiscWizard program to completely erase the hard disk drive and then I will attempt to install again. If it fails again, what should I do and why is this happening?

As the hard drive was a Seagate hard drive, I used their DiscWizard program to write 0s to the entire hard drive. After it completed, which took a few hours, I was able to install Vista with no issues.
"Tom Scales" wrote:

You require the SATA drivers for your machine. The XP that Dell provides has it included. Vista does not. It might work with the XP version. Go to support.dell.com and download the SATA drivers and create a floppy. When you are installing Vista, there is an option to load disk drivers. Follow that prompt.
Tom "Edmund1976" wrote in message I have attempted numerous times to do a clean install of the Beta2 on my Dell Dimension 9100 system, which previously had XP Professional SP2, but the setup keeps telling me that it cannot install on any of the volumes on the hard drive. I have deleted all the old partitions and formatted them with the setup wizard, yet it continues to say the same thing. Right now I am using boot disks that have Seagate's DiscWizard program to completely erase the hard disk drive and then I will attempt to install again. If it fails again, what should I do and why is this happening?

Edmund1976 wrote:

As the hard drive was a Seagate hard drive, I used their DiscWizard program to write 0s to the entire hard drive. After it completed, which took a few hours, I was able to install Vista with no issues.

No problem with the SATA drivers? Others report that Dell's won't install Vista without drivers being loaded from floppies, thumb drives etc.
-- Chris Game
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