HDD does not[ show up on Install!

[keefo]

Hi all, im trying to install Windows 7 On my brothers Dell Precision 530.

But im having a bit of trouble, i have installed windows 7 on my laptop and desktop no problems, but on his, the HDD does not show up at all when i choose "custom" to do a fresh install.

Anyone else had this problem, and know how to fix it?

Cheers
Keith

 

[TGSoldier]

Hi can you properly fill your system specs please?

 

[zigzag3143]

Hi all, im trying to install Windows 7 On my brothers Dell Precision 530.

But im having a bit of trouble, i have installed windows 7 on my laptop and desktop no problems, but on his, the HDD does not show up at all when i choose "custom" to do a fresh install.

Anyone else had this problem, and know how to fix it?

Cheers
Keith

Keith

If you are around your brothers computer, does he only have 1 partition? Are you booting from the dvd? and not inside windows.

Ken

 

[keefo]

hmmmm give me a few mins, will get them off the computer asap!

all i know off the top of my head is its a standard Dell Precision 530, nothing has been changed on it at all.

I belive it may have a Scsi HDD, could thing cause problems?

 

[keefo]

Hi all, im trying to install Windows 7 On my brothers Dell Precision 530.

But im having a bit of trouble, i have installed windows 7 on my laptop and desktop no problems, but on his, the HDD does not show up at all when i choose "custom" to do a fresh install.

Anyone else had this problem, and know how to fix it?

Cheers
Keith

Keith

If you are around your brothers computer, does he only have 1 partition? Are you booting from the dvd? and not inside windows.

Ken

It only has one partition, it previously had Windows XP on it, and i have booted from a DVD.

 

[Antman]

Hi all, im trying to install Windows 7 On my brothers Dell Precision 530.

But im having a bit of trouble, i have installed windows 7 on my laptop and desktop no problems, but on his, the HDD does not show up at all when i choose "custom" to do a fresh install.

Anyone else had this problem, and know how to fix it?

Cheers
Keith

What HDD and controller does he have?

 

[Antman]

Ok. So I'm slow. The service tag will tell what the components are.

 

[keefo]

The Service tag is 5L4170J

 

[Antman]

Precision 530 mt - single xeon 1.7ghz ba
1 512mb pc600 rdram memory, (2x256mb)
1 10gb ide ata-100 (7,200rpm) hard drive
1 additional 40gb ide (7,200rpm) hard driv
1 12x ide cd-rw drive
1 16x dvd-rom drive + mpeg support for ela
1 matrox g450 (dual-monitor capable) 32mb
1 creative labs sound blaster live! Audio

{ENGLISH - }MICROSOFT WINDOWS 2000, SP1

 

[keefo]

hmmmm strange... just had a looky on the specs of it, and it has 2x xeon 2ghz

2gb of Ram.

and only one HDD
a new Gfx card 265mb (Radeon)

 

[Antman]

Drivers and Downloads

Run/extract this on any machine. The driver will land in C:\Dell\R64013

The target machine (the Dell) will need to read these files from a floppy, DVD, HD or USB device.

The screen where your install is failing will have a link to grab the driver.

You can extract directly to a floppy with this Drivers and Downloads

 

[Antman]

This is one of Dell's screwier builds.

 

[zigzag3143]

A 10 gig HD is barely enough to fit win 7

 

[keefo]

A 10 gig HD is barely enough to fit win 7

its got a bigger HDD in it

and cheers Antman, will give it a go now!

 

[keefo]

Drivers and Downloads

Run/extract this on any machine. The driver will land in C:\Dell\R64013

The target machine (the Dell) will need to read these files from a floppy, DVD, HD or USB device.

The screen where your install is failing will have a link to grab the driver.

You can extract directly to a floppy with this Drivers and Downloads

hmmmm that didn't work when i tried to load the drivers :-s

damn picky computer! lol

 

[Antman]

hmmmm that didn't work when i tried to load the drivers :-s

damn picky computer! lol

What did you experience? Verbatim.

 

[zigzag3143]

A 10 gig HD is barely enough to fit win 7

its got a bigger HDD in it

and cheers Antman, will give it a go now!

I saw\

I figured you would want your docs and data on the bigger and the OS on the smaller. Right now my 32 bit win 7 is 14.3 gigs. My docs, music, etc are 80 gigs

Ken

 

[keefo]

hmmmm that didn't work when i tried to load the drivers :-s

damn picky computer! lol

What did you experience? Verbatim.

i loaded the drivers onto a USB Stick, then pressed load drivers, then browsed to the USB stick and it scanned the folder i had placed the drivers in, and it just sayed there was not any drivers their.

 

[Antman]

hmmmm that didn't work when i tried to load the drivers :-s

damn picky computer! lol

What did you experience? Verbatim.

i loaded the drivers onto a USB Stick, then pressed load drivers, then browsed to the USB stick and it scanned the folder i had placed the drivers in, and it just sayed there was not any drivers their.

The file(s) downloaded from Dell are compressed. You must extract them first.

 

[keefo]

What did you experience? Verbatim.

i loaded the drivers onto a USB Stick, then pressed load drivers, then browsed to the USB stick and it scanned the folder i had placed the drivers in, and it just sayed there was not any drivers their.

The file(s) downloaded from Dell are compressed. You must extract them first.

i did, i extracted the files to the Dell folder, and copied everything on their to the USB stick.