[Jekyll]

Hello,

I really need some help here as I am in dire need of it, please bear with me as this for me is quite tough to explain:

Before today I had two Hard Drives, a Maxtor 150 Gig (which is just a storage drive) and a Barracuda 250 Gig Drive which I have Vista 64-Bit installed on.

Now today I bought another Barracuda 500 Gig Hard Drive with which I intend to install Vista on and put Windows XP on the 250 Gig Barracuda.

I have both Barracudas in Caddies so that if I want to use Vista I insert that caddie in, and when I want to use XP I remove the Vista Caddie and insert the XP one (hope this makes sense!! and its the only way I can explain this)

Now my problem is that I had the new 500 Gig HD in and started to install Vista, but I got this error:

Windows is unable to install to the selected location error 0x8007000D.

Also in that error message it had 3 locations listed and the first one was 150 Gig as the primary location, the 500 Gig was the last one listed and I was not allowed to install Vista due to the above error, I don't want the 150 Gig Drive to have any operating system on it as its just a storage drive and nothing else, so I really need some help sorting this mess out please.

Hope someone can help

Many thanks

Jekyll

[bigbear]

Hi and welcome to TSG
Is the drive PATA?
Is the drive recognised correctly in bios?
Is it jumpered correctly?

[dohteM]

well just an advice but maybe you should seperate the 150 gig into 2 drives such as C and D and put xp and vista on each and use 500 as your storage.. if you want the windows to load normaly and you need to go to bios ( I dunno your mainboard and even if I did it wouldn't help much ) find boot options and put the harddrive you've instaled the windows on as primary. also 150 gig is overkill for vista let alone 500.

[Jekyll]

I'm sorry to say that I have'nt a clue, but I have had the HD installed by the guy that built my PC and he knows what he's doing, I trust him totally, a couple of things I do know is that yes the Bios did show it up as I saw 500 Gig during the boot sequence.......talk about confusing people, I go and say I have'nt a clue and then I produce the answers, or at least some of them lol please forgive me as I am so nervous and stressed out, and shaking on top too

Jekyll

Apologies bigbear, thank you for the welcome

[Jekyll]

dohteM,

No offence but I don't wish to do it like that, I want to have Vista on the 500 Gig and XP on the 250 Gig, I have tons of games and am an avid gamer, my Maxtor 150 Gig is the only drive that is permenantly connected up as a storage only drive, the other two drives are drives that I can remove as they are in caddies, so when I want Vista in I slot it in and if I later want to use XP I remove the Vista HD and insert the XP one, that is how my setup is now, and if only I could get Vista to install on the new HD I would be happy, but I get that error and am at a loss as how to fix it

I appreciate you words though, thank you

One thing that I was not sure about was, do I need to format the HD as its literally brand new and was installed this afternoon, I got it back this evening and simply tried to install Vista on it, do you have to format it first and if so, how?

Jekyll

[dohteM]

Did you insert Vista DVD and try to run it on xp or you boot with it's DVD? If you're trying to instal Vista through XP it's not gonna work.

[Jekyll]

Well I put the drive in and inserted the Vista DVD and then chose boot from CD, and went from there until the error

[bigbear]

I googled the error code and it appears this is not an uncommon problem when installing Vista 64 bit
It might be better to repost in the Vista forum

[Jekyll]

Can I just copy and paste my post at the top of this thread in there, is that ok to do?

Many thanks

Jekyll

[bigbear]

Ask a moderator to move you there

[Jekyll]

Ok will do thanks bigbear

[jazz3000]

Is this a laptop pc? Jazz
reason I asked is the need for the caddies when xp would allow for both systems?

[Jekyll]

No its a desktop

I'll have to ask here, can a moderator please move this thread to the Vista Forum? I can't find a moderator to pm.......yes I know I'm dumb, although in my defence I am stressed out and can't think straight at the moment

Jekyll

[bigbear]

http://forums.techguy.org/members/14751-acacandy.html

[Jekyll]

I found one before you bigbear, thanks anyway, although he's probably offline now

I'll wait a little while and then try the one you sent me

Thanks

Jekyll