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SOLVED: HDD not visible during Win7 install (RAID with Intel SRT)
I had an awful time putting Win 7 Ultimate 64 back on to a 1TB HDD that I had been using on a Gigabyte P55 board. I needed to do a fresh install on a new Z68 ASUS motherboard that now uses Intel SRT with a 120GB SSD.
(I have set up a SSD with Intel SRT before, so it did not scare me to do it again)
So the new install had to be set to RAID in the BIOS. Wiped the drive and reformatted it. But Win 7 could not "see" the HDD. It showed up in the BIOS. It was visible and accessible on another computer. But this installer screen just didn't show any hard drive. Just a big empty window. Very frustrating since I had wiped / partitioned / formatted this HDD at least 5 times.
Finally figured out that the Install screen has an option to install drivers. I put the mother board disk in the CD drive and browsed to the folder with the Intel RAID drivers. The first driver I tried didn't work, but the second one installed. I put the Win 7 Install DVD back in the drive and POOF! - the HDD was then visible and selectable and I was able to proceed with the install.
Last edited by red454; 01 Jan 2013 at 21:54.