Vista sata usb

You may insert the device after Windows Vista installation starts. Error message when you try to install Windows Vista: "Windows is unable to find a system volume which meets its criteria for installation". Visit our Microsoft Answers Feedback Forum and let us know what you think. Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. Bill Bernard. I bought two gig sata drives. In installed them as a 5th and 6th drive as back up and file storage.

I wasn't able to see them in my computer so went into disk management and formatted and created drive letters. Rebooted and still everything looked great. Then I decided to just clone the OS onto my new sata, cloning was successful it booted up and the desktop showed up and then all of a sudden a prompt showed up saying that i had a pirated OS. You can't install Vista on an external hard drive. It's internal or nothing at all Windows ain't OSX, yanno. If you meant "Can Vista get to SATA drivers from an external USB drive connected that has the drivers in a folder" then yeah, it should be able to because it now allows you to browse through folder structures.

Hope this helps Click to expand Joined May 15, Messages 20, Yes, as the others said: you can use a USB stick with the drivers on it, or another CD with the drivers And any USB storage device should work. Joined Jan 1, Messages 2, Joined Dec 3, Messages 2, Joined Mar 24, Messages 19, It doesn't unless your drivers are obscure. Vista installed on my SATA drive without any help whatsoever.

Menelmarar Supreme [H]ardness. Joined Feb 15, Messages 5, Worked fine on the system in my rig and in others I have setup XP had native support for this, why wouldn't Vista? Seems like a silly question to me. Joined Sep 5, Messages 2, Vista should have the drivers built in for chipsets available now. I stress the word should. Why are people having so many problems with installing on SATA drives, always thinking they need to load drivers to do so?

I am trying to install on a single sata and it cant find the SATA drive without the drivers that I burned to another disk. You get a nice BSOD. I'll be installing Vista on the 30th. According to MSI's website, this motherboard is compatible with Vista, but there isn't any drivers for the motherboard listed for Vista. You need to be a member in order to leave a comment. Sign up for a new account in our community.

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