Windows 7 Install No HDD's

Getting really Frustrated with this. First off I have an Asus CM5570 AP006 with Intel Dual Core 2.3 GHZ 6 Gigs of Ram and Nvidia GT100.

I am trying to install win7 to a new hard drive after a reboot would not see my original hard drive. Figured the drive was toast (no big deal have most of the data readily backed up). So i buy a new WD 320 Gig HD. toss it in go to do a clean install of win 7 cannot find HDD for install.
Steps:
1. Swapped Cable - Didnt work
2. Swapped ports - Tried all 6 didnt work
3. Loaded Manufactured Drivers - Tried all compatiable at win 7 setup
4. Flashed bios - No difference
5. Tried IDE (compatible and Enhanced), AHCI through bios.
6. UBCD Tested all harddrives (including one i htought was toast) All tested good per manufactures tools and SMART.
7.Called ASUS - Great Hardware and Customer service is a joke on the prebuilt computer side.
(Edit) Also parted and formatted and flag for boot the new HD with gparted on UBCD. - Didnt work as well


So here I am now. LOL. I have pretty much over done everything here. But I do not get how I can boot into a LIVE UBCD system and everything works fine and I cannot even install or repair a win 7 install.

Please help. I am not sure what I am missing and I have I guess became to old to work on the new stuff LOL.

Thanks for the help in advance.

Windows can't find the HDD because it is trying to boot to a new, non formatted drive. You need to go into your BIOS and change the boot order and make sure that the DVD ROM is the first drive to boot. Then, restart the PC (with the Windows DVD in the drive) When the message "press any key to boot from CD" appears, do just that, and continue with the install.

i think you need to load the SATA driver during windows installation. it may be available as a standalone driver or as part of the chipset driver package. you should be able to download it from either asus or intel. you will need all the extracted files, not the ".exe" file (although if that is the only one available, there is a utility you can use to extract the files from it). then either burn the files to a disc, or put them on a usb flash drive, so you can load them during installation.

Absolutely. That was the first place I went downloaded and extracted the drivers put them on an external USB HD (which yes oddly did work) loaded the drivers during Win7 install. All chipset drivers relating to SATA, AHCI, and IDE that i downloaded from Asus for my computer model and motherboardand operating system. But to No Avail still not seeing hard drives. I am about to go office space on this computer :).

I have tried this on both the old and new HDD's in all configurations (AHCI, EIDE, and Comp IDE). With only the HDD and DVD Hooked up (not both HDD's).

each time i format and reinstall i have to load the SATA driver first, BUT i have to UN-check the box next to "show only compatible drivers". then, through trial and error, i located a working driver. and on my asus board, i had to disable RAID in the BIOS.

i used drivers from intel.

take a look at this tutorial. i'm not sure if it will help, since your hdd is awol: SSD / HDD : Optimize for Windows Reinstallation