can't make a clean win 7 install on my new sata drive :(

Ok, after having given up on my old disk I'm getting pretty sick of not getting my new computer up and running, so I've just decided to install my OS on my new drive that I initially planned to use just for storage, but, that's how it goes. But do you guys think it let me do that? Of course not, it starts to mouth off as well, giving me stupid errors that I can't install Win 7 for some bull$hit reason. This is the message it's giving me during the Win 7 install:

“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.”


The only garbage in BIOS that I can find about "enabling the disk's controller" is e-sata or whatever, and I have enabled that junk, and that did nothing. I can't find any other option, maybe it's there somewhere if you know where to look for all this tripe.



The drive in question is a WD Intern Red 3TB SATA III (IntelliPower / 64MB Cache / WD30EFRX)


Thank you to any kind soul who can save me from this computer-nightmare BS.

Thank you very much for this detailed reply, I will try my best to follow these instructions and update you how things goes later! =)

Not sure what I'm doing wrong now... =(

I burnt a disc of that partition program you recommended, put it in, and it looks nothing like on the screenshots on the webpage, the only thing that comes up for me is like a dos command prompt thing, there's only one option available, I press enter, the screen goes black, and that's that. Thought I downloaded and burnt the wrong version at first or something, but I doublechecked it. =(

Also, when I tried to format this sata drive normally with the win 7 install disc, it wouldn't let me even do that, I clicked on format, and nothing happened. I don't know, just all these new file format stuff is confusing enough for me, I had only ever heard of FAT and NSTF stuff before I got this HDD.. =(

It also didn't let me choose the sizes of the partition, it split up like randomly one 2TB and the other 700gb something unallocated, and I coudln't event do anything with that part...and yeah, at the end it just gave me that error message I quoted.....

I did check out those BIOS settings you spoke of, and they kinda looked okay, except that one of them was like greyed out, so I couldn't touch that one. It was the start in secure boot thing...

This is really driving me mad.... I'm no computer expert by any means (obviously), but I've built three computers in the past for myself and never had so much trouble as with this one, there's just been one thing after another, and now, when everything (almost) seemed to be solved... the HDD starts giving me these troubles as well... ugh... =(

EDIT: Maybe I should mention my other components in this system if that can be of any help.

ASUS STRIX Radeon R7 370 4GB DirectCU II OC (STRIX-R7370-DC2OC-4GD5-GAMING)

Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400MHz 16GB 2x8GB CL11 (CMY16GX3M2A2400C11R)

ASUS CROSSBLADE RANGER - ATX / A88X

AMD A10-7870K Black Edition FM2+

Nope, this is a completely newly built custom PC, so it's never had a OS before.

And yeah, I did try to boot from the PW cd, but all it gave me was that one-option dos-looking command prompt thing (that I'm totally inept in navigating), I just pressed on the single option that was available and the screen went black, and nothing more happens. =(

EDIT: Oh, I don't get that nice-looking user interface at all

I tried again just now, the cd boots fine, but whether I press anything when it starts up, or let the timer run down, nothing more comes up after the initial dos-looking screen, it doesn't let me choose screen size resolution or anything... =( And at first it seems like it's loading something from the cd (btw I burnt another Cd just in case it was something wrong with the disc, but that made no difference either..) but I've left it on for like 10 minutes and the screen just stays black...