"no drives were found." when installing Vista

[pawn3d]

Then it asks me to install drivers from a disk, but I don't have any drivers!
My laptop is a Sony TZ (Model VGB-TZ27GN/B)

 

[Pyree]

This topic has been moved from the section Windows 7 to section Windows Vista by Pyree

 

[Pyree]

Driver here:

http://www.sony-asia.com/support/product/vgn-tz27gn

 

[pawn3d]

Where do you see said driver?

 

[Pyree]

click downloads, select your OS and select original driver

 

[pawn3d]

Pyree, which driver is it? What is it's name?

 

[Pyree]

Go to your device manager. The device in your computer that has an exclamation mark on it requires a driver to be installed to work. Download the driver for those device.

If you need help to identify the device, upload a screenshot of the device manager and use the link photo function of the forum to post the scree shot on this thread.

 

[pawn3d]

How can I get to the device manager, when I cannot even install the OS?

 

[Pyree]

Oh, you haven't installed the OS yet because there is no HDD and and you suspect it is because the driver is missing, is that correct?

Sorry, I though you were only having a driver problem after reinstalling Window Vista.

Is the HDD detected in bios?

 

[pawn3d]

Yes, it is detected in the BIOS, but Vista, nor 7 disks see it.

 

[Pyree]

What HDD is it (manufacturer and model)?

Try the window installation under all mode, AHCI, RAID and IDE.

 

[pawn3d]

It's a Toshiba MK1011GAH
Again, I can't find where to switch to RAID, AHCI or SATA in the BIOS.

 

[Pyree]

You may want to slipstream Window Vista with nLite or vLite to add the driver in.

 

[pawn3d]

Can you tell me how to do that?

 

[Pyree]

Need to download vlite:

http://www.vlite.net/download.html

Here it is an already written guide on how to slipstream the driver into your Window Vista:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/windows-os-software/271701-guide-vlite-vista.html