Will not see HD on Fresh Install

Hello,

I've browsed this forum and have found that other people have had issues with Windows 7 not being able to see their Harddrives. I am having the same problem, but none of the remedies mentioned will work for me.

I am not upgrading form a previous OS, this is a new system with brand new everything. So, i have an empty WD Caviar Blue SATA II that is waiting for Windows 7. Unfortunately, when Setup gets to the "Select Drive" screen, no drive shows up. The drive is visible in my Bios, so I know it's plugged in right. But, Windows 7 is failing to find it.

Are there some drivers I need to download to make it show up?

Thanks for your input.

you need to download and unzip the SATA/RAID drivers for your motherboard on a USB flash drive and when you get to the drive setup screen you can load them from the flash drive so the system will then be able to install to the hard drive after loading the drivers

please fill in your system spec and I will help you find the driver you need in order to do this

computersplus said:

please fill in your system spec and I will help you find the driver you need in order to do this

Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD4P Motherboard.

are you using XP as listed in spec or 7 32/64 bit please as much info as possible here it will help to speed things along

computersplus said:

are you using XP as listed in spec or 7 32/64 bit please as much info as possible here it will help to speed things along

Sorry about that.

Windows 7 64-bit
AMD Phenom IIx4 Processor
8 GB ram
WD Caviar Blue 320 GB SATA HD

ok here you go bottom of page driver in the middle description is below good luck

2009/11/05 AMD SATA RAID Driver (Preinstall driver, press F6 during Windows* setup

GIGABYTE - Support&Download - Motherboard - Driver - GA-MA790X-UD4P (rev. 1.0)

computersplus said:

ok here you go bottom of page driver in the middle description is below good luck

2009/11/05 AMD SATA RAID Driver (Preinstall driver, press F6 during Windows* setup

GIGABYTE - Support&Download - Motherboard - Driver - GA-MA790X-UD4P (rev. 1.0)

For some reason, this did not work. Is there something I could be doing wrong?

you have to extract the package with a program like 7 zip or winzip and put the extracted files on the flash drive