vista install fails no disks recognised

I have
GA-K8NXP-SLI nForce4 motherboard 1Gb Ram in (2x512) AMD64 3500+ 1 x Nvidia 6800GT 2 x 120Gb Segate 120Gb 7200RPM Disks 2 x 74Gb Raptor SATA running as a 138Gb RAID strip set LG All formats 8x DVD Writer
I did not want a Beta OS to control my raid disks, as thats got a very stable and working OS with a load of stuff installed and it'd take me a while to reinstall though there is nothing I can't lose on there, but would prefer if its not recognised by Vista or would disable it if it did. With this in mind I formatted one of the 120Gb's with 3 partitions, with the idea that I'd maybe install both 32 and 64bit versions.
I am using the boot manager thats in the BIOS. It allows me to choose which controller to boot from, so before booting from the DVD I marked the standard PATA drive as the second bootable disk. The blank formatted and partitioned hard disk is the primary master disk, Disk0 in Disk manager under XP.
Booting took a while and got me to the install button, but pressing that setup informs me that it cannot get information about my disks and cannot continue. Both version do the same.
Given that this is a standard IDE disk, nothing to do with RAID, i'm disappointed as I cant install Vista on this vista capable PC.

It's the Nvidia chipset. It needs the driver regardless if it is RAID/SATA/PATA. There is a work-around in this newsgroup, just do a search. -- AMD-FX-60 2gb OCZ Plat. memory ATI 1800 AIW 2x74gb Raptors in RAID-0 2x400gb WD HDD in RAID-1 Epox Nvidia-4 Ultra M/B Senior Member Overclockers.com
"Sunray" wrote:

I have
GA-K8NXP-SLI nForce4 motherboard 1Gb Ram in (2x512) AMD64 3500+ 1 x Nvidia 6800GT 2 x 120Gb Segate 120Gb 7200RPM Disks 2 x 74Gb Raptor SATA running as a 138Gb RAID strip set LG All formats 8x DVD Writer
I did not want a Beta OS to control my raid disks, as thats got a very stable and working OS with a load of stuff installed and it'd take me a while to reinstall though there is nothing I can't lose on there, but would prefer if its not recognised by Vista or would disable it if it did. With this in mind I formatted one of the 120Gb's with 3 partitions, with the idea that I'd maybe install both 32 and 64bit versions.
I am using the boot manager thats in the BIOS. It allows me to choose which controller to boot from, so before booting from the DVD I marked the standard PATA drive as the second bootable disk. The blank formatted and partitioned hard disk is the primary master disk, Disk0 in Disk manager under XP.
Booting took a while and got me to the install button, but pressing that setup informs me that it cannot get information about my disks and cannot continue. Both version do the same.
Given that this is a standard IDE disk, nothing to do with RAID, i'm disappointed as I cant install Vista on this vista capable PC.