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    M860TU with new 500gb HDD issue

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Clyzm, Nov 23, 2008.

  1. Clyzm

    Clyzm Notebook Evangelist

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    So I picked up the 500gb Western Digital HDD from Canada Computers today... and for whatever reason I can't seen to install Vista x86 on it.

    With this reformat I decided to ditch 64 bit and all its woes, but now every time I try to install 32 bit the system hangs at 'completing installation' after the first reboot.

    Anyone had any similar issues? Any resolutions? I've been keeping this thing on forever.

    edit: Forgot that Vista doesn't load proper SATA drivers for most disks. Trying it with my SATA controller in IDE mode from BIOS, will post results.
     
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    Clyzm Notebook Evangelist

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    fixed, sorry for the useless thread. Putting my SATA controller into IDE mode worked out fine.
     
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    But it may harm your performance. HDTune can tell you.
     
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    Oh I know that, but for now I have to do it until I get my proper SATA drivers installed.

    It should work properly once I get those drivers up and running.




    At the moment I'm trying to play around with BCDEdit in command prompt to let me page 4 gigs of RAM on a 32-bit OS, and I'm not having much luck.
     
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