is there a F6 driver addition workaround?

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as clean system install on a number of harddrive controllers does not work
with hangs, no hard disk found, etc errors.....

the only workaround I can see is to run the install from XP desktop and add
the driver before first boot, pretty rediculous to install XP in order to
install Vista dontcha think?
 
in the screen that should show your hard drives,
there is a button in the lower left to "add
driver" that replaces the f6 option and if you
need to provide a driver, that is the option you
use. vista even allows you to have the driver
 
My MSI K8T800Pro Neo2 did not die there!

In fact the Via RAID drive is in both the x86
and x64 Vista base and I did not need to provide
a driver.
 
I understand, but there are a buncha posts from people that have OEM
machines, other brand MB's etc. where they don't get to the partition
selection screen, or get there with no drives shown, and we all need a
workaround, has anybody got one?
 
Do you have any idea what hardware you have?
Making a generic statement that a bunch of
boards don't get there and you need help doesn't
mean diddley squat!

If you have a problem with your car would you
just call a garage and say "my car doesn't work"
and expect the person on the other end of the
phone to know exactly what your car's problem is
by osmosis or ESP?

No different asking for computer assistance in a
news group. People reading the posts know
absolutely NOTHING about your system. Try to
provide as much information about the problem.

What do you think you need a "work around" for?
How do you know you don't have either a
hardware problem, or that your installation DVD
is causing the problem?

I have only installed Vista 4 times so far, but
I have not encountered any problems in those 4
installations.

The last time I did encounter a problem with an
installation was with win x64 and that proved to
be a corrupt .ISO I had downloaded. I
downloaded a second time and everything
installed as it should.
 
Thanks Rick

look over the forum a little... there's people with ICH7 SATA in AHCI mode
(which btw is a huge chunk of the newer machines out there like Dells etc
right now) like myself with the problem, laptops, other integrated SATA
contollers, a whole crowd of people with different configs who can't get
fresh installs done.... simply because they can't load disk controller
drivers prior to the partition selection screen and get hung....

I've got working iso's and boot dvd's and Vista x86 installations... but I
don't have a solution to load drivers ala F6 so I can get test installations
done on fresh machines, hence the title of this post...

Has anybody got a solution?
 
You are one of over 50 people who have asked this same question. You HAVE to
do a clean install within XP to install Vista. There is no fix for this issue
but there is a workaround. I don't have the link anymore but feel free to do
a search for it.
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Chris,

Thanks... I wrote a post for clean install to a second partition from the XP
desktop for a non-Vista included SATA driver and adding the driver using that
process if that is what you mean....

just figured someone might have got the driver thing whipped at the first
screen stage or by adding them to the ISO since I know zip about Vista
install disk yet.
 
We can only hope for that fix.
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AMD-FX-60
2gb OCZ Plat. memory
ATI 1800 AIW
2x74gb Raptors in RAID-0
2x400gb WD HDD in RAID-1
Epox Nvidia-4 Ultra M/B
Senior Member Overclockers.com
 
Thanks Rick, nice post.

I'm just talking about adding drivers on fresh install, I've got working
iso's and boot dvd's and Vista x86 installations... but I don't have a
solution to load drivers ala F6 or add them to the ISO so I can get test
installations done on fresh machines, hence this post to find out if
someone's got something...
 
I'm not sure, but this is my experience. Is it the same?

I am installing Vista to a new Maxtor 200GB SATA drive. I have downloaded a
second copy and checked the md5 sum to verify the downloaded file. I have
burned copies at 16x, 2x and 1x.
2.3GHz CPU
512 pc3200 RAM
128MB nVidia video card

After typing in the keys I select a partition to install to, click on
install drivers from the Maxtor software that came with the disk, but the
software finds no drivers on it.

It begins:

Installation copies files, expands files, installs features and installs
updates. At Completing Installation an error message pops up that reads:

Windows Setup

An error occurred while preparing Windows Setup to boot into the
next stage of the setup.


Help wanted!
 
Well, I just started today with installing from a DVD I got from Microsoft
(not downloaded). My motherboard is an Epox EP-9NPA+SLi uses nForce4 SATA
RAID. Setup 2 Samsung 250GB drives, BIOS recognized. I tried all the
work-a-arounds I could find on getting my RAID drives to be recognized. Then
I ran across the method involving installing XP first. So I did that,
complete XP with SP2 and all drivers. Launched the Vista disk from within XP
and selected "Full Install", loaded the SATA RAID Drivers from nVidas site
(put them on a floppy), it copies all the files and expands them. It then
does a re-boot and I get a BSOD. I did this twice just to make sure it wasn't
something I was doing. I gave up on RAID for now and just did a clean install
on one SATA drive and it's all good now.

I'm using Vista to post this message.

I still have to figure out where to post bugs like this SATA RAID not
detected bug.

Have fun with it.
 
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