hmm just googleing that drive does give people errors during vista installer
maybe this have some use no harm in trying
http://www.samsung.com/us/support/do...isp_nm=HD501LJ
some sort of software maybe drivers not sure check it out
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btw does you mobo support ata-300 if it only supports 150 i think u can set it to that maybe thats the problem