Installing Win7 but no drive showing  

A friend wants me to install Windows 7 on a Lenovo Ideapad 110-141BR laptop. He does not want any other OS, just Win7.

When I try to install Win7 on it, it asks "Where do you want to install Windows?" but no drives are showing (even though it has a newly installed HD in it) There is an option for "Load Drivers" but what drivers is it asking for and where can I get them?

The drive is a Seagate ST500LM021. I looked on Seagate's site and the only option I can see is "Firmware Update" which is an EXE file, so no way of extracting the .inf files onto a USB.

Any help appreciated.

Darren

Actually, you can extract the files. (I think with 7z)

Drive is visible in Bios.

Tried extracting the EXE file but it wouldn't have any of it.

Anyway, I'm glad to say that I sorted. It was all thanks to DISKPART.

Opened a CMD prompt, started DISKPART, found the C: disk, used the CLEAN command then formatted it. Tried the installation again and it worked perfectly :) :) Windows 7 is now installed and running fine.

1974darrenh said:

A friend wants me to install Windows 7 on a Lenovo Ideapad 110-141BR laptop. He does not want any other OS, just Win7.

When I try to install Win7 on it, it asks "Where do you want to install Windows?" but no drives are showing (even though it has a newly installed HD in it) There is an option for "Load Drivers" but what drivers is it asking for and where can I get them?

The drive is a Seagate ST500LM021. I looked on Seagate's site and the only option I can see is "Firmware Update" which is an EXE file, so no way of extracting the .inf files onto a USB.

Any help appreciated.

Darren

Hi Darren, as much as I'm able of suggesting your problem, you must formate the HDD first, because this isn't be done in the brand new condition. Win always install in the HDD's first partition, with mbr, and not in a RAW section the HDD is in, I presume. Is there any chance of connection the HDD via USB to your PC, in order of formatting it with device manager?
In advance don't nail me if I'm telling nonsense, totally!
Hoping of success!

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1974darrenh said:

Drive is visible in Bios.

Tried extracting the EXE file but it wouldn't have any of it.

Anyway, I'm glad to say that I sorted. It was all thanks to DISKPART.

Opened a CMD prompt, started DISKPART, found the C: disk, used the CLEAN command then formatted it. Tried the installation again and it worked perfectly :) :) Windows 7 is now installed and running fine.

Could you be so kind telling how you could open discpart on a none installed system? So far as I know, it's not possible in BIOS; as a matter of fact.
Thank you so much,
Peter