Vista PE can't find drives

Two issues. I have spent quite a bit of time making a Vista PE 32 and 64 bit disks. They seem to work fine on one of my machines, but the machine I REALLY want it to work on is a different story. When I boot from the CD all seems to go fine until it searches for hard drives. I get the search screen and that is it. It never changes screens, it never shows any drives, I have left it overnight thinking maybe it is slow. The same CD works fine on other machines in the house. I am out of ideas.

Second issue. Using the ATI boot CD will find the drives, but it takes 10 minutes to find the drives, then another 10 minutes to find the LAN, then another 10 minutes to find the NAS. So, it is just as frustrating.
Nothing out of the ordinary, Gigabit wired LAN and so on.

 

If you boot from a standard Vista DVD, does Vista find the drives okay?

What version and build of TI are you using?

 

Sorry for leaving out details. I am using ATI 11, and I have not booted the one machine off of the Vista DVD as the machine does not have a working DVD drive.

 

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