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    Got my Vostro in! But Vista won't load, HELP!

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by BigEmpty, Aug 6, 2007.

  1. BigEmpty

    BigEmpty Notebook Geek

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    First thing I did was wipe the drive and install my own copy of Vista Home Premium. It installed, but on the first reboot I got blue screened and it restarted. Told it to start up again and got bluescreened again.

    Loaded the Vista install disk and ran the repair option, told me it could not repair.

    What the heck is going on?
     
    BigEmpty, Aug 6, 2007
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  2. zfactor

    zfactor Mastershake

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    there is a full thread on this already same thing is happening to aeveryone it seems
     
    zfactor, Aug 6, 2007
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    DoubleBlack Notebook Deity

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    This really needs to be PINNED because I post this same exact thing (written by me) at least once a day here...

    That problem is because the OS can't see the drive, but it does because you installed it...right? Typically, you assign RAID drivers and stuff so you can install on that drive because it doesn't see it...but this gets confusing, because it actually sees it. When it asks you where to install, you'll see an option to load drivers - you want to go to support.dell.com and download the Intel Matrix Storage Manager and load the drivers in there prior to installing. The problem is you need a special AHCI driver, and not the generic Microsoft one. Yes, this is really frustrating and I was the first person to post about this in the forums - I called Dell and they had no idea what I was talking about, I had to figure all of this out on my own...

    If you don't know how to do this, or anything like that...and don't mind taking a *small* performance increase for ease just go into your BIOS and see the HDD operation mode from AHCI to ATA and then you can install Vista using ANY disk!

    The direct download link for Intel Matrix Storage Driver is here:

    http://support.dell.com/support/dow...1&impid=-1&formatcnt=1&libid=41&fileid=205611

    Oh, and this applies to the 1420, 1520, 1720, m1330, and I assume the m1730 as well ;)
     
    DoubleBlack, Aug 7, 2007
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