Install windows 7 RC on a posible eSATA disk?

I have 2 hardrive with vista as my main and one connected to a support esata (not embedded controller) I want to install win7 rc, I know it not supported support by ms but is - it possible at all? the drive is detected and showing during installation unfortunately cannot afford to be install on this disk, I get this msg
"Windowws cannot be installed to this material disk.this of the computer may not support booting to this disk.
"Make sure that the disk controller is activated in the bios menu.

Why this disc is not recognized as a bootable drive?

Thank you

Hi EddyBk,

Thank you for using answers Forum.

"hardware can support booting to this disk .

The nature of the error message, it seems that you can configure drive esata one the first in the BIOS boot device. If you change the esata upward as the first boot device (as a boot USB device or however, it is connected to the computer, if your BIOS offers this option), it must install and create a boot manager to allow you to choose Vista or Win7 at startup.

You can check the mobo manufacturers website to see if an update of the firmware/BIOS is available if this does not work.

I hope this helps.
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