[Zeneta]

I’m going to bail out on my second attempt to “Install” Vista from the disc.

Even though it seems I’m further along than my first attempt, an hour plus of a black screen makes no sense.

I’m going to attempt to boot up this machine with the Dell “Drivers and Utilities” disc with the hope that I can re format my hard drive from there.

[Conservative Gato]

Here is a video on how to load the SATA drivers during installation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LS-74lQU8w

Since you have the Intel Matrix Storage Driver already on the Drivers disc, you can just copy and paste it to a USB drive so you can use it during the install process. You can skip the part in the video where he goes to find the right driver since you already have it on disk and go to the end. Or you can go find the latest driver from Dell and save it on a USB drive.

CGato