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Sata driver difference between Win7 pro and Win 7 Enterprise?
Hi everyone,
a few days ago, my teacher at school informed our class that Microsoft would be providing us with some of their software for academic purposes. Among this list of software, was Windows 7 Professional. So I decided I would install the 64 bit version of Windows 7. Now usually, I would have no problem installing an operating system, but this time around I decided I would install the operating system on my new seagate barracuda hdd (Model ST31000528AS).
After physically installing this new hdd, I booted up and noticed that my bios had detected this new hdd (the only one installed). I booted into gparted (using gparted cd), and created two partitions:
100 gb primary partition ntfs
900 gb primary partition ntfs
I then restarted, and booted from the win 7 pro 64 bit dvd (iso source: directly from MSDNAA Software Center and burned using imgburn). After specifying the language settings of the os, I clicked next, and waited to begin the installation. I waited about 15 minutes before the setup notified me that it could not find any hard drives to install on.
This prompt allows me to browse to a directory to specify a driver to help me detect this hard drive. I have tried the following drivers so far with no success:
Beta driver v1.0.14.0 of Siliconimage 3114 for Windows Vista 64bit.
nForce4/500 Series AMD - Windows Vista x64
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At this point, I figured there was something wrong with the iso. So I tried installing Windows 7 Enterprise 64 bit. To my surprise, this installation never prompted me for any additional drivers, and successfully installed onto my sata hdd.
So I decided to try to install win7 pro 64bit from a usb key. This would help me rule out that my optical drive was at fault. I booted from this usb key and setup ran as usual. Except, once again, it asked me for drivers to help detect my sata hdd.
I have searched this forum, and many many other forums to look for a solution, but I still have no success.
what might cause the problem:
install from usb
bios settings are not properly set
optical drive causes problem
wrong sata driver
corrupted iso
I'm wondering if anyone is familiar with this situation.
Thank you for any tips.