Have you installed the driver for the SATA controller?
Maybe this article will help:
Installing RAID/SATA Drivers
http://vistasupport.mvps.org/installing_raid_sata_drivers.htm
"DJE" <DJE RemoveThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I own a ACER aspire SA80 which has suffered a complete hard drive
>failure(no
> backup), I have installed a new Seagate SATA 250Gb HD, I am trying to
> install
> Vista 32bit premium but get the same problem each time the install process
> progresses beyond partiton selecton, the same message never seems to occur
> but is always related to memory. "an attemtpt was made to write to read
> only
> memory" or "memory_management" the "tech info code" also differs each
> time.
> This is very frustrating, any assistance would be appreciated.