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BIOS Cannot Detect Hard Drive After Exiting Diskpart Clean All. Help.
Hello everyone.
So four years ago, I custom built a new computer which ran really well. However, I wanted to make several upgrades including a new Seagate Barracuda 250 gb hard drive (7200 rpm, SATA II, 8 mb cache) and Windows 7 64-bit on a USB. I know it's not flashy stuff but i'm on a budget and just needed some upgrades to play some pc games.
Today was frustrating. After finally getting Windows 7 64-bit on a USB, everything was going fine until Windows refused to let me install Windows 7 on my new hard drive. The error message: setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition windows 7 kept popping up. I tried many different techniques I saw on YT including changing the system BIOS from IDE to ACHI.
Finally I saw something for Diskpart. I stupidly activated the Clean All option...but the thing took forever and I realized it wasn't the option. So I did an early exit. I can't help but feel like I just made a really stupid mistake because now the BIOS won't detect the Hard Drive anywhere. Did I just remove a perfectly good hard drive from my system? Please help I feel so silly for my impatience...I guess I was so annoyed at everything