Problems installing Vista on to Sata HHD - please help!!!

[x0160768]

Please can someone help!!!

So I rebuilt my system a little. Bought a new motherboard, PSU and GPU (see sig for details). I'm having some problems installing Vista to my Sata HHD though. Basically, the HHD has two partitions, one with my old Vista installation on it which I want to keep and one which is empty, that I want to install a fresh version of Vista on to now that I have new hardware. When I booted up for the first time all was fine except that obviously, the motherboard couldn't see my HHD as I hadn't installed the Sata drivers. My question is: is it possible to install the sata drivers without a FDD? With something like USB or something? The manual says I need to install the drivers to a FD then boot up and computer and let the drivers be installed from the FD but can I do this in any 'simple' way without a FFD.

Sorry for the waffling.

Thanks,
Nick.

 

[Roguestar]

Vista doesn't need drivers to see SATA drivers at install, as far as I know. Sounds like it doesn't like your hard drive or partitions?

Why not reinstall over the old install of vista on the first partition? Or perform a repair install after installing the new hardware?

 

[x0160768]

I think I do need the Sata drivers with Vista. It says so in the manual anyway. There's a whole section on installing the Sata HHD with Vista.

I don't want to install over of the old version because I have files I want to keep. I don't want to repair either. Basically I like to have fresh clean installs. I know, maybe I'm wierd. Just one of those things.

 

[ViRGE]

Roguestar is right, you don't need drivers*. Something else is wrong if your board isn't seeing that HD. Make sure you're not running your SATA ports in RAID mode.

* I have the P35-S3's bigger brother, the P25-DS3R; I can absolutely confirm you don't need drivers