Hard drive not found

[LMO]

The system currently boots fine from the hard drive into Win XP. When I boot from the Win 7 install DVD it fails to find the hard drive, and as far as I can tell there are no special drivers required. I'm using an IDE drive--not SATA--with a Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3L motherboard.

I also tried to boot from the Win XP install CD, and it also fails to find the hard drives.

Any suggestions?

 

[gregrocker]

Will WIn7 installer run from XP? What happens?

Any error messages on any of these? Google exact wording.

 

[LMO]

I think I found the solution. This is actually my son's (in college) system, and I discovered that he added another disk controller so he could run two IDE drives. The missing driver is for that controller.

 

[Ztruker]

Why would he need a 2nd IDE controller? You can connect two IDE drives to the existing onboard IDE connector using a IDE cable with two connectors on it (three counting the end that plugs into the system board).

 

[LMO]

Think two hard drives, two CD/DVD drives, and maybe a floppy...