Quote Originally Posted by Master of None View Post
Go to your hard drive manufactures website, download their maintenance software, and “write zeros” to the hard drive(s). With one HDD attached install the OS. Add the other hard drive(s) after Vista is installed.
Is there a bootable program out there? I see that Seagate (my manufacture) has such a program, but I don't have any other PC's in the house that use SATA cables.

Gparted does not work, as it gets an error during boot.