Cant Install Win 7 64 Bit

[delboy630]

I tried to put a clean install onto a new Western Digital 500Gb Sata Hard Drive. During the Infomation gathering Win 7 gave this message: Windows cannot be installed to this disk. Windows could not determine if this disk and it parent devices have the necessary driver support. What does this mean ?

My old Hard drive is IDE 250GB. My motheboard is a Asrock K10N78D, which gives me no problems. I dont want a Raid set up. All I want is to have Win7 on my new 500GB Sata hard Drive.

Regards Delboy

 

[richnrockville]

your board supports sata hard disk but If you have your ide drive plugged in, it probably will choke.

Asrock K10N78D connectivity shows:
6 x SATAII 3.0 Gb/s connectors, support RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, RAID 5 and JBOD), NCQ, AHCI and Hot Plug functions
- 1 x ATA133 IDE connector (supports 2 x IDE devices)

I suggest that you disconnect any other hard disks on your computer and only have the cd/dvd drive connected along with your new sata hard disk.
boot the cd/dvd and they try to install.
Let us know whether this is ok?

Riich

 

[Ztruker]

See page 29 of the Users Manual for your board:

 

[delboy630]

Riich

My DVD/CD is the only Ide device. The Hard drive is new I put it in place the Windows 7 installation disk and got the above message, do I need to put Sata drivers on? When I tried to install again the Screen just stuck on the Starting Windows Logo, there was alot of HD activity but to no avail.

Delboy

 

[Ztruker]

Did you follow the instructions from the link I gave you? You need to set BIOS to AHCI.

 

[delboy630]

Will try it tomorrow. Will let you know of the result.

Delboy

PS: I think I did, with it being a new hard drive does the Win7 instalation format the drive?

 

[richnrockville]

Did you follow the instructions from the link I gave you? You need to set BIOS to AHCI.

Good call, forgot that one.
Rich

 

[gregrocker]

Plug the new HD in to see if it needs initializing in Disk Mgmt first.

Then unplug all other HD's and try AHCI first, as suggested.

Tips for getting a purrfect install - use the ones which apply to you: http://www.sevenforums.com/installation-setup/125874-re-install-windows-7-a.html#post1086729

 

[delboy630]

Disk Management? Where is that on a New hard disk?

Delboy

 

[gregrocker]

Go Start>rightclick Computer>Manage>Disk Management while your old OS HD is plugged in.

 

[delboy630]

Well tried today,but had no luck! I made the necessary changes in BIOS and switched to AHCI but notice during boot up this message:Auto detecting SataII.1 Ide hard disk Sata1 AHCI Port 0 device error. I continued the boot up got to the loading windows setting NOTHING! I left it for an hour nothing! So I swiched back the bios setting to IDE, Windows loads to the gathering info bit ask for drivers but does not recognise any.

Advice please?

Delboy

 

[theog]

Try a full clean & full format in command prompt.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/52129-disk-clean-clean-all-diskpart-command.html

1) Boot DVD, & Press Shift+F10 (for command prompt)
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/119713-diskpart-pc-startup.html
2) Boot DVD, & http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/682-command-prompt-startup.html
(for command prompt)

Type in command line
If you have no partitions on your HD.
DISKPART
LIST DISK
SELECT DISK # (win HD)
CLEAN ALL
CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
SELECT PARTITION 1
ACTIVE
FORMAT fs=NTFS
ASSIGN
EXIT
EXIT

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/91339-ssd-hdd-optimize-windows-reinstallation.html