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No Drives Found in W7 install, trying clean install on HP DV4 1228CA
Hi all, I'd appreciate any help I can get on this, my laptop hdd died a few days ago and I've been pulling my hair out trying to install w7 on a brand new HDD i bought.
Specs:
HP Pavilion DV4 1228CA
Systemboard ID 30FB
AMD Turion X2 Dual Core Mobile RM 72
4Gigs of RAM DDR2
BIos F55
Factory Install, VISTA
New HDD I'm trying to install: Seagate Momentus 7200.4, 500gb
Replacing: Fujitsu250gb MHZ2250BH G2
Process:
- I boot into Windows Installation and select language.
- Shift + F10 - Diskpart - List Disk = NO FIXED DISKS FOUND
(I can see the new drive when I attach it to my desktop pc via USB enclosure, so I know it's not faulty.)
- Where do you want to install windows? - Load Drivers - I found the AHCI SATA driver here: Software & Driver Downloads HP Pavilion dv4-1228ca Entertainment Notebook PC - HP Customer Care (Canada - English)
and used the W7 86x version on my USB key. It seems to load fine, but the result is still: "No Drives Found"
I don't know where else to look for the appropriate drivers. Seagate does not provide any and there are no other drivers on the HP website.
I managed to flash the BIOS with a new version just before my old HDD crashed (it was on the fritz so I managed to back up my data on a USB)
- I've also tried the Clean Installation Guide posted here, no difference.
- I've tried formatting it in Disk Management, still no detection.
I've looked at many forum topics here and it points to an SATA non-detection issue?
or could it be that I"m installing Windows 7 Ultimate on a VISTA machine and it's not accepting it? I bought this new hdd thinking I could just put it in and install with no fuss but 4+ days later it's a giant headache and I can't return the hdd if I wanted to.
There's a pin (primary slave) on the Seagate that was not on the original, but there are no jumper pins, could this be the problem?
I'm at loss at what to try but I need to get this up and running for my work. Can anyone help me? I would be happy to provide more details if necessary. Thank you for your time.
Mike