Trouble with clean install of Windows 7 premium 64 bit

"Some may need SATA driver or RAID driver for their motherboard and/or RAID controller ready on DVD, USB or HDD attached to non-RAID hard drive if setup does not recognize hard drive while installing."
I saw this in another thread. Could this possibly help my case? It sounds possible considering my hard drive is new.
If so then how would I do this process?

You mention "OS disc" from Cyberpower. Is this an ordinary Microsoft branded Windows 7 disk? Or some type of Cyberpower disk? If the latter, I'd probably download an official Microsoft Windows 7 ISO and burn it to a disk and use it instead.

Do you have a 25-character Windows 7 Product Key, typically found on a sticker on the PC somewhere?

Have you downloaded the motherboard manual?

GIGABYTE - Motherboard - Socket 1155 - GA-Z77-D3H (rev. 1.0)


Look at the diagram on page 21. Look at numbers 6 and 7 on that diagram. You will see a total of 6 possible places to which a hard drive could be connected.

Which of those 6 are you using and have you tried any of the other 5?

Here is the correct way to use Diskpart for a clean install. Make sure you follow these steps exactly:

Disconnect all hard drives other than the drive that will receive Windows.

Disconnect any external devices. All you need are monitor, keyboard, and mouse.

Boot from the Windows 7 installation disc.

Hit Shift F10 at the first screen where you are asked to choose a language.

A command prompt will appear. Type diskpart at that prompt.

Type in the following commands one by one, followed by the Enter key to create a partition (text in parentheses are comments only):

list disk (to show the ID number of the hard disk to partition, normally Disk 0)

select disk 0 (change 0 to another number if applicable)

clean (this wipes the drive of anything on it; not needed on a brand new drive)

create partition primary (this will create one primary partition covering the entire drive; if you instead want to create a primary partition of 80 GB, add “size=80000” after the word “primary”)

select partition 1 (this selects the partition you just made)

active (this marks that partition active)

format fs=ntfs quick (this formats that partition)

exit (this quits the diskpart program)

exit (this closes the command prompt window)

Continue Windows 7 installation as usual. Remember to highlight and select the partition just created when you come to the partition screen asking you "where do you want to install Windows?”.

1st. The OS disk is not an original Microsoft OS disc, It is some sort of cyberpower disc. I would have done that if a burner was available, and if one ever does come available I will try this.
2nd I do have a product key on the sticker on the side of the case.
3rd I have a physical manual, I am using Sata port 0 (for HDD connection) and 2 (for cd/dvd drive)
4th I have tried the normal disk partition command prompt, however it does not recognize my hard drive in that prompt unless I run command "rescan" even though it is recognized in Sata port 0 in my bios.
Let me tell you what I type into diskpart
>list disk
<(no media on all disks, 0-3)
>rescan
<Rescans
>list disk
<(random new disk 4 appears, online status, 931 GB free)
>select disk 4
<Disk 4 is now the selected disk
>clean
<Virtual Disk Service error: The object has been deleted

I have only a monitor and keyboard connected. Monitor is connected through graphics card (i don't know if that is a problem or not) and the keyboard is connected through the old style keyboard input in the back of the PC (i can't remember the name for it sorry.) Hopefully this helps thanks for the reply
Also I have my optical drive set as boot option #1 and my Hard drive set as boot option #2

When I ran the OS just now the hard drive showed up (after a rescan in diskpart and refreshing the list in the os installer) with 3 partitions


It gave me an error when I selected the OS and said "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that the disk's controller is enabled in the computer's BIOS menu"

Not entirely sure what the disk's controller is.

Is this an EFI BIOS? Check in BIOS Boot order to see if there is an EFI Boot disk, disable it. Enable Legacy BIOS. Otherwise you need to follow special steps to install to UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) - Install Windows 7 with - Windows 7 Forums

I wonder why the target HD is DISK4. Did you unplug all other HD's and peripherals? Try another SATA port recommended by your Manual.

I also wonder why it shows 3 partitions if you wiped the HD. Try again following Diskpart Clean Command. It's possible it's EFI showing the GPT partitioning used with an EFI install.

Use the Official installer provided in Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7 following the Best Practices to get a perfect install.

OK I think I see what you are refering to when you say EFI.
In bios setup for me it looks like
PCI ROM Priority: [EFI Compatible ROM / Legacy ROM]
It was set to EFI compatible ROM. Should it be set to Legacy instead?

I have tried other sata ports, I can try different ones again, I will look into my manual shortly.

Also when I try to wipe the hard drive it does not finish and it ends with an error saying that the hard drive was deleted or is no longer detected something along those lines.

I'll try to do clean install from flash drive if this doesn't work.

OK so the only options I have in Boot Order Priority are Hitachi HDS72101DLE630 (set to option 2), HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH24NS90 (set to option 1) and Generic-SD/MMC 1.00 (I have no idea what this is, but by default it is set to option 3.)

Opt 3 is your built-in SD card reader.

Test your HD using maker's HD Diagnostic extended CD scan then use the wipe function on the CD. Then Format an NTFS Active partition using Step 2.2 in SSD - HDD Optimize for Windows Reinstallation to run a full Disk Check from installer's Command Line. Once HD is deemed good try install again to the partition you created.

You'll need to study Manual to understand if EFI-compatible-ROM is an iteration of EFI Boot disk meaning you have an EFI BIOS, or nothing more than compatible with same. I've not heard of it yet. Please let us know what you find. If EFI I gave you the two install options which have worked so far - with or without EFI - although yours may require a hybrid method. This is all very new cutting-edge technology.

Can I run that HD diagnostic off of a flash drive? I do not have a cd burner readily available.