arie i have noticed on some sata drive that the bios is set to be ide. your explanation fills in the gap. thanks.
seen a few people look at my post but nobody apparently knows what could be doing this. just happpened again same error exactly. yet all test...
arie yep thats the driver it found intel ahci and yep dell also told me i could have just disabled it in the bios. so is this just a laptop...
wildfire i hear what your saying but so far the install is going the way it should. finishing up the driver install and then bring up to sp1...
finally a resolution to this problem. finally got a hold of a dell tech who apparently has gone thru this before and knew right away the problem....
arie originally vista home premium. here another really weird thing. was able to run dells h.d. diags all okay. thought i would try using...
well dell so far has turned me down on this being a warranty issue and i guess being that dells diagnostics all pass i cant blame them. but now...
dell diags all came thru just fine but now when i try the vista and try to delete the partition or reformat it i get error failed to create new...
arie yep have done that 4 times now. it always seems to die at the same place. it does the copying then expanding the install features and...
would installing xp home premium if it will install and then using the vista home premium dcd inside windows and do an upgrade to vista will that...
i give up i need some suggestions. have been trying to reinstall vista home premium back to factory defaults on a dell laptop. have tried 3 times...
lately and i have no idea why and i have checked with microsoft but as you will see theres nothing for me to research. error is as follows -...
tonyt nope the same drive. originally i was getting "bad system config info" blue screen and nothing i attempted would get past this. couldnt...
tonyt it tells me its looking for scsi drivers and even the bios says its scsi but that dont make sense this is a sata drive not scsi. this...
not sure if this is the right forum for this but here goes. am working on a sony vaio desktop vgc-ra840g. have the recovery dvd's from sony for...
tonyt went through every option in the bios and not finding anything regarding boot bios screen or anything close to that. guess i will have to...
tonyt i honestly cant say ive ever seen that so client must have done some thing to cause this because it was working perfectly when i set it...
client is getting at boot a message "bbspopup ". what the heck is this does anyone know ??? this is a brand new vostol 220 with xp pro. ive...
after again chatting with my isp later last night all of a sudden microsoft.com came back up just fine. really think my isp was blocking the...
your lucky then. my isp says nothing wrong with what they can see but being that myself and others who are hocked up to the same outside closet...
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