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SIW:
As near as we understand, the PC in question has no OS.
He has other computers with Vista and XP.
But we may have been misinformed.
SIW:
As near as we understand, the PC in question has no OS.
He has other computers with Vista and XP.
But we may have been misinformed.
What model is your motherboard?
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Hi Ig,
You could be right.
Nevertheless - if he attaches it to the Vista machine and initialises it there - then moves it back to 7 machine - that may do the trick. Vista/7 partitioning rules are the same.
If Vista doesn't like it either - it is probably faulty - I am surprised Gparted didn't pick it up.
Gateway laptop running Vista, would rather not take apart.
Custom built desktop running XP.
Custom built desktop that contains the hard drive I'm having trouble with.
It has only one hard drive. Nothing is on it, never been used before. I've called Gigabyte support and they told me the correct SATA ports to put my drives in so they would work in bios. By drives, I mean my optical drive and my hard drive, the only two I have connected.
Is there anything else that needs clearing up?
That sounded a bit hostile, I don't mean it to be.
Sorry for the third post, an update.
The disc is recognized in diskpart when I run command prompt during by pressing shift + F10 during the Windows 7 installation.
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
--------- ------- ----- ----- ---- ----
* Disk 0 Online 465GB 465GB
DISKPART> select disk 0
Disk 0 is now the selected disk.
DISKPART> create primary partition
Microsoft DiskPart version 6.1.7600
PARTITION - Create a partition.
VOLUME - Create a volume
VDISK - Creates a virtual disk file.
OK, then continue with commands listed earlier in this thread.
Your disk will almost certainly be seen as disk 0 by diskpart.
If so, your commands would be the following, with the enter key after each one.
diskpart
list disk (most likely it will show as disk 0)
Select Disk 0 (if that is what shows in the above step)
clean
create primary partition
active
format fs=ntfs quick
exit
the above exit command should dump you back into the Windows 7 install. Just continue on from there or post why you can't.
Alright,
DISKPART> clean
DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk.
DISKPART> create primary partition
PARTITION - Create a partition.
VOLUME - Create a volume
VDISK - Creates a virtual disk file.
DISKPART> active
There is no partition selected.
Please select a partition and try again.
DISKPART> format fs=ntfs quick
There is no volume selected.
Please select a volume and try again.
"create primary partition" wasn't working so I tried "create partition primary" and it worked.
It took like 2 seconds to format, not sure if that's normal.
Going back to install.
my error
you must insert this command
select partition 1
immediately after create partition primary
then continue with:
active
formatn fs ntfs=quick
the entire bunch is:
diskpart
list disk (most likely it will show as disk 0)
Select Disk 0 (if that is what shows in the above step)
clean
create partition primary
select partition 1
active
format fs=ntfs quick
exit