No drives were found

I have just build a pc i5 2320 sandybridge, 4gb kingston ram, gigabyte Z68AP-D3 motherboard and 1 Generic Hard Disk Drive 500GB SATA II along side 1 seagate barracuda 7200.7 200gig hard drive i had lying about. When i boot the system posts however when asked were i want to install windows iam told that no drives were found the hard drive led says that a hard drive is present

Try Cleaning the HD Drive, using Step one in this tutorial:
SSD / HDD : Optimize for Windows Reinstallation
Than type> convent gpt
& than Reboot PC to install.


UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) - Install Windows 7 with


Make sure you boot the DVD from the UEFI DVD Drive.

im a bit of a noob and have no idea what you are talking about and the 500gb hard drive is brand new so doesnt need cleaning as nothing is installed on it

jack12 said:

im a bit of a noob and have no idea what you are talking about and the 500gb hard drive is brand new so doesnt need cleaning as nothing is installed on it

Just type> convent gpt

when?

Click here: SSD / HDD : Optimize for Windows Reinstallation


Click here: UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) - Install Windows 7 with

What theog is trying to say is that you have a UEFI BIOS:
The 30-year-long Reign of BIOS is Over: Why UEFI W... - Input Output
Technical Note: UEFI BIOS vs. Legacy BIOS - YouTube

It requires the special steps shown in UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) - Install Windows 7 with - Windows 7 Forums.

If you don't feel it confers enough advantage then you might find it easier to Bypass UEFI to Install Win7

Let us know what you decide, and how it works for you.

i think i understand but iam a little confused do i need another pc to make the bootable usb as iam currently using a mac

What is it that you've decided to do?

iam trying to load windows 7 btw