Help installing Windows Vista

[SuperRich]

Hey guys I am sure you have had loads of these threads and I hope you do not mind another. I am having trouble installing Windows Vista on a new system. All parts are new except the Hard drive which works but is from my older computer. It has been formatted.
When I try to install Windows Vista I get as far as the installing page but can get no further than here (it is the page after you can see your hard disk partition's where you choose where you would like Windows installed. It tells me it has all the information Windows needs and may restart a few times during installation but the % counter next to the first line which is "loading windows files" or something like that does not get past 0% even after waiting an hour. I have been told on another site it may be that I must Load a driver as my Hard disk (or motherboard) is a SATA. I have done this from the ECS website for my motherboard and downloaded and put to CD the RAID download but windows does not automatically pick up any drivers. I can manually browse and I do find these drivers:
1 in the application file which is a: JMB36X Standard dual channel PCIE IDE Controller
2 in the driver/amd64 file which are: JMicron JMB36X Controller (these both have exactly the same file name)
2 in the driver/x32 file which are: JMicron JMB36X Controller (these again both have the same file name)
All of these files are .inf files.
However I think I have tried all of these now and none have any effect.
I also have only a mouse, keyboard and graphics card attached to my computer atm.

A few specs if needed:

P965T-A motherboard
2 gig ddr2 memory
250gb hard drive (Maxtor)
nvidia graphics card

Any help appreciated and if further info is required please post and let me know.
1 question I do have is how do I know if it has accepted my driver I am trying to load? (if I do have to load one.)
Also is it best to leave the hard drive as one big partition as I have atm or create a seperate 1 for vista?

Thanks in advance

Rich

[mookydooky]

Vista has native SATA drivers so you don't need to load anything before the install.

I had a similar problem when I first tried to install Vista, it turned out I had a damaged DVD. Check your DVD to make sure it's clean.

BTW, are you doing a clean install or trying to upgrade? When I tried to upgrade, it didn't take and I had to do a clean install.

[SuperRich]

I am doing a clean install and the disk looks pretty clean and scratch free to me

[mookydooky]

What kind of behavior does your DVD player exhibit? Does it spin? Does it sound like it's stuck? Does your HD light blink?

[SuperRich]

DVD drive does not even start spinning and my hard drive does not seem to do anything either (although on my case I do not have a light for my hard drive tbh)

[SuperRich]

Also another thing thst does not seem right is I cannot create another partition. On the "Where do you want to install Windows?" page The New and extend buttons are greyed out. I only have the refresh, delete, format and load driver buttons available.
My harddrive is shown as: (name) Disk 0 Partition 1 (total size) 232.9GB (free space) 232.9GB (type) Primary
Is this right?

[mookydooky]

Originally Posted by SuperRich

Also another thing thst does not seem right is I cannot create another partition. On the "Where do you want to install Windows?" page The New and extend buttons are greyed out. I only have the refresh, delete, format and load driver buttons available.
My harddrive is shown as: (name) Disk 0 Partition 1 (total size) 232.9GB (free space) 232.9GB (type) Primary
Is this right?

The new and extend options are greyed out because you're main partition is taking up all the space on the HD. In answer to your previous question, you can change your partition size in Vista if you ever get it installed.

Try deleting the partition and creating a new one again and see if that will do anything.

[SuperRich]

Tried deleting the partition and created a new 40gb one and tried installing on that but still does not budge from 0%. The drive my CD is in does not seem to want to move though. Surely the drive should want to do something at this point?
ANymore help greatly appreciated

[mookydooky]

Originally Posted by SuperRich

Tried deleting the partition and created a new 40gb one and tried installing on that but still does not budge from 0%. The drive my CD is in does not seem to want to move though. Surely the drive should want to do something at this point?
ANymore help greatly appreciated

Well... I'm at a loss myself.... Obviously it's not a driver issue since you could do stuff to the HD. I get the feeling something's going on with your DVD drive, but I can't say what..... At this stage of the game, the install should be copying files onto your HD... since your DVD's not even spinning, there seems to be something going on there, but I don't know what.

[chrisbard]

Rich go into bios and set everything to default then save. Tell us what happens.

[Necorum]

ONe of my installs of vista takes awhile with the 0% part are you installing updates (windows update feature ting vista has)as the installation is strating or just letting it install?

All i had to do was not let it install the updates "yet" til my vista was installed.