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trying to install 7 on IDE Maxtor drive NTFS formatted
Im trying to install 7 on an empty IDE Maxtor drive NTFS formatted drive, IDE cable, no partitions, and the only drive installed. Even if I use the Windows 7 setup to delete/reformat/create a partition, I keep getting "Windows cannot install. hardware may not support booting to this disk - ensure disk controller is enabled in the BIOS" and "Unable to create new system partition or locate existing partition".
My Maxtor drive has always worked fine in installing every other version of Windows, except for 7. Perhaps 7 needs Maxtor drivers for this drive to install, but I cannot find the website, as Maxtor has been bought over by Seagate, and Windows 7 cannot find any drivers it can use from my Maxtor CD/DVD I got with the hard drive itself. Can anyone suggest what the problem might be, how I can get the drive to work, or where I can get compatible drivers, if this is what I need?
My hard drive is an IDE connected Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 160Gb ATA/133 HDD, and set as a master. thanks