Newb- X205-SLI1 - Drive Upgrade?

Hi All,

I am not new to computers or building them but new to laptops- it is a brave new world.

I have the X205-SLI1 and love it.

So far I put in 4gigs of the OCZ DDR2800 and loved that. On the way home from work tonight, with best buy gift cards in hand, I got an idea to yank those crappy 5400 rpm drives out and install 200GB 7200rpm hitachis. Additionally, I thought a fresh install of Vista might be in order.

The good news, the old drives are out and the new drives are installed. I checked bios (v1.90 is what I have and will upgrade when I get it going again) and the 2 drives are showing up. Next I take my Vista Home Premium Disk (not the Toshiba version - I have an extra copy from a computer that I don't use anymore), and boot her up. Everything procedes as normal with install where I type in key...

The bad news, windows gives a yellow triangle with an exclamation mark and says that I cannot install Vista on either of these 2 new drives. My assumption was that I needed a Hitachi driver. I put the disk in and Vista could not find a driver. I looked on the Hitachi site and no luck. I looked on the Toshiba site and no luck..

Please help

 

Did you go to the hard drive advanced options during the install, there you will have the options to partition and format the hard drives which is required before you can install vista on any of the 2 new drives.

 

Update 2:
Okay tried the EXACT same thing a third time out of sheer frustration and it worked????? The options for format, new, driver were all gone this time. I did absolutely nothing new and cannot figure out why it changed. Oh well- hopefully the rest of the install goes well.

The next headache will be to figure out the modified inf and nvidia driver for this machine...along with all the other drivers I will have to install.

Wish me luck


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Update:
Tried partition again- and the error message is:

"This computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that the disk' controller is enabled in the computer's BIOS menu."

Any ideas
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I did but it would not let me select that option. I will try it again though- maybe i did something simple/wrong.

Thanks-

 

That is strange as there are no special drivers needed for the hard drives, Vista has the required sata drivers, I can't think of anything else? but if both of the drives come up in the bios screen then it should allow you to install Vista. maybe someone else can think of something else.

 

Sorry to steal your thread gitteeup, but I was about to post on how to install a new hard drive. I was planning on just replacing the D drive and was wondering which cover it was under and if there are any instructions or steps to follow. Can someone walk me through this?

One more thing, if I decided to to replace both drives can someone give me a heads up on what I need to do, because I'm kinda screwed here. I'm actually at SFO international airport, heading to Vegas, and might pick up some things over there; new hard drives and some games. Would I need a new copy of vista to do a clean install and not the one that comes with the laptop?

Thanks,
jei

 

No worries- steal away.

I stayed up to 4:00a.m. but the laptop is fully running with all drivers in place EXCEPT the updated Nvidia driver which I may try to tackle today.

I cannot help you with your vista question but I am sure of the pros here can.

Drive 1 is on the left side looking at the top of your keyboard, while drive 2 is on the right...if memory serves me correctly- it was late.

Have fun in vegas.

 

Drive D is under the big cover on the side which has 2 screws and Drive C is in the front middle smaller cover.