Not Recognizing Hard Drive

jradicle11 said:

Yea, that's why I can't install on it. Guess you can't install on USB devices.

Right, can't install to external HD or WIn7 could be carried around to any computer.

jradicle11 said:

I'm returning it to newegg and exchanging it for a new one. They're letting pick out a different one of similar price. Any suggestions on which to get?

What are your available choices?

Price range $80-$105

Must be DDR3, AM3, integrated graphics, ATX standard size.

Compatible with:

Newegg.com - AMD Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition Callisto 3.1GHz 2 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM3 80W Dual-Core Processor - Processors - Desktops

Newegg.com - Mushkin Enhanced Silverline 2GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Desktop Memory Model 991585 - Desktop Memory

I'm leaning towards the ASUS M4A785TD-V

Newegg.com - ASUS M4A785TD-V EVO AM3 AMD 785G HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard - AMD Motherboards

I guess for regular SATA devices, they're supposed to be plugged into the SATA4 and SATA5 ports. I restores bios to defaults with the drives in those ports and it recognized them in BIOs for the IDE Channel 1 master and slave. Windows 7 still wouldn't recognize them.

Are you following your mobo manual?

Yea, but it really mostly goes in depth on how to set up RAID. And the SATA4,5 thing, a friend of mine who is an IT guy was the one who told me that.

Gigabyte support is less than supportive, I plan on calling them tomorrow but I'm not sure if they even do tech help over the phone.