Dell Hard Drive Installation Issue

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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 said:
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?
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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
 
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
 
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.
 
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.
 
Edmund1976 said:
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.
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No problem with the SATA drivers? Others report that Dell's won't
install Vista without drivers being loaded from floppies, thumb
drives etc.
 
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