Solved Hard drive not detected when installing Win7 but it shows in BIOS

[msmoorad]

i have a Dell Optiplex 9020. it came without a hard drive & i installed a 1TB SATA HD but im having a problem installing Win 7 32bit.

The Win7 is on a USB flash drive. when i try to install it, it shows NO Hard Drive detected but in the BIOS settings, the HD does appear.

i have tried the "list Disc" option using the command prompt but that only shows the USB flash drive.

 

[iko22]

Hi msmoorad

Perhaps you not formatted the hard drive? You should choose format drive first, before initiating the Windows 7 installation

 

[Paul Black]

Hi msmoorad,

This might be of use: hard drive not detected during Windows installation

Did you format the HDD BEFORE you tried installing Windows?

I hope this helps!

 

[msmoorad]

fixed: it appears my hard drive is faulty- i never even thought of that as its a fairly new drive-hardly used it but when i connected an older 320gb drive, it was detected & windows installed.

then i connected the 1Tb drive to another pc and it was also not detected- so it seems its the hard drive.

thanks for replying though.

 

[Paul Black]

You are very welcome msmoorad, I am glad you have sorted it out!