Will Vista DVD boot from a 'SATA' DVD-RW on a clean install?

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Rich - 28 Feb 2007 02:56 GMT

Will Vista DVD boot from a 'SATA' DVD-RW on a clean install? Or, do I have to
install a driver first from a bootable floppy?

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Jeff Ingram - 28 Feb 2007 07:01 GMT

It booted fine from my Plextor SATA DVD Writer. I think it' has more to do
with your system BIOS and which drive you have set as the first boot device.
Check to make sure that your DVD drive is the 1st boot device.

Hope that helps!

Jeff

> Will Vista DVD boot from a 'SATA' DVD-RW on a clean install? Or, do I have
> to
> install a driver first from a bootable floppy?

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Richard G. Harper - 28 Feb 2007 10:16 GMT

It depends on whether or not Vista has a driver for your SATA controller.
If it does, it will; if it does not, then you won't be able to. I have one
computer with SATA that works as a bootable device and one that does not.

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> Will Vista DVD boot from a 'SATA' DVD-RW on a clean install? Or, do I have
> to
> install a driver first from a bootable floppy?

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Rich - 28 Feb 2007 16:48 GMT

The beta version of Vista installed the right SATA driver, but I was
installing from an 'IDE' DVD-RW then. The concern is will the SATA DVD-RW
drive function before installing the SATA driver from the Vista DVD. As said,
it probably depends on what's in the MB Bios.

> It depends on whether or not Vista has a driver for your SATA controller.
> If it does, it will; if it does not, then you won't be able to. I have one
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> > to
> > install a driver first from a bootable floppy?

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Richard G. Harper - 28 Feb 2007 23:03 GMT

Yep, that's a good bet.

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> The beta version of Vista installed the right SATA driver, but I was
> installing from an 'IDE' DVD-RW then. The concern is will the SATA DVD-RW
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>> > to
>> > install a driver first from a bootable floppy?

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