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If those SATA and IDE drives are occupied and their controllers are set to None instead of Auto then you may have found your problem.
Try setting the Sata and IDE controllers to auto.
Also, did you unzip and copy the Silicon drivers which were provided earlier in thread onto a flash stick or CD and load them into installer on the Custom drives screen link (the screen where your HD's should show up, drivers link at bottom left). You need to browse through the folders until the installer finds the drivers to load.
You might as well try formatting the HD first before giving up and rolling back to Vista.
Boot into the Win7 DVD, select Repair My COmputer on second screen, then in Recovery Tools open a Command Line and type:
DISKPART
LIST DISK
SELECT DISK # (for target disk)
clean all ("all" zeroes the drive, much fuller format)
create partition primary
select partition 1
assign letter=c:
active
format
exit
Here's the tutorial from MS for rolling back to Vista using the windows.old folder below.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971760
Last edited by gregrocker; 11 Dec 2009 at 02:46.