Windows 7 installation doesn't detect hard drive

[Rapmaster]

Install everything, the bios detect the hard drive (it's a new hard drive, never been use) but when installing the Win7 64, the hard drive list is empty.

Here my spec

Phenom II 940BE | Gigabyte 790X-UD4P | Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB | XFX HD4770 512MB | OCZ StealthXStream 600W | NZXT Tempest

thanks

 

[Anthony]

You need to format new hard drives. no? :huh:

 

[Orbital Shark]

Hi Rapmaster, welcome to the forums.

Do you have anything listed at all? The drive may be showing as 'Unallocated' which will require you to create a 'New' partition.




Jeff

 

[bigdave9576]

I'm having the same problem. My question is, how do you format it without the Windows Install? Can you do ti in BIOS or something?

Help!


Dave

 

[acdcfan]

I'm having the same problem. My question is, how do you format it without the Windows Install? Can you do ti in BIOS or something?

Help!


Dave

Go to see my attachment



slelct computer management, in the left hand pane select disk management .... in the right hand side, select the disk you wan to format, right hand click on it and select quick format



hope this helps

 

[Barman58]

You should be able to format the drive during the actual install process however you may want to set things up before hand to get things exactly how you need.

For this have a look at partition wizard and their bootable disk here ....

Partition Magic Alternative - Partition Wizard is a magic partition software for Winidows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008 Server and Windows 7.

The software is a lot more advanced than that built into win7, it works, and it's totally free

 

[acdcfan]

Install everything, the bios detect the hard drive (it's a new hard drive, never been use) but when installing the Win7 64, the hard drive list is empty.

Here my spec

Phenom II 940BE | Gigabyte 790X-UD4P | Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB | XFX HD4770 512MB | OCZ StealthXStream 600W | NZXT Tempest

thanks

Is your hard drive connected to SATA controller

 

[theog]

I'm having the same problem. My question is, how do you format it without the Windows Install? Can you do ti in BIOS or something?

Help!


Dave

You can use Command Prompt in Repair my Computer.

 

[bigdave9576]

Ok thanks for all the replies guys.

My problem is that I can't access Disk Management as I haven't installed Windows 7 yet.

My Hard Drive is recognized in BIOS, and I have set up BIOS to read it as both AHCI and RAID to see if it would make a difference. I have the latest Drivers for my MB (on both the MB CD and a flash drive), but when I select the driver, it just hangs for awhile then goes back to the Window screen saying there are no Drives located.

Would this be an HD installation problem? a MB problem?

I suck at this!

Thanks again,

Dave

 

[theog]

Ok thanks for all the replies guys.

My problem is that I can't access Disk Management as I haven't installed Windows 7 yet.

My Hard Drive is recognized in BIOS, and I have set up BIOS to read it as both AHCI and RAID to see if it would make a difference. I have the latest Drivers for my MB (on both the MB CD and a flash drive), but when I select the driver, it just hangs for awhile then goes back to the Window screen saying there are no Drives located.

Would this be an HD installation problem? a MB problem?

I suck at this!

Thanks again,

Dave

Load your SATA controller drivers here.

 

[bigdave9576]

theog,

Thanks! But thats what I have been trying. I click on load drivers, then I locate the relevant driver and select it. The loading bar moves for a while, and then it returns to that page with no driver in sight.

Do I have to do the whole F6 thing on boot? Or set any jumpers on the actual HD itself?

I'm pulling my hair out!


Thanks!

Dave

 

[ignatzatsonic]

Dave;

Are you just trying to format an empty disk?

Try this:

run diskpart command from a prompt.

Then each of these commands, followed by the enter key after each one.

list disk (to show the ID number of the hard disk to partition, normally Disk 0)

select disk 0 (change 0 to another number if applicable)

clean (this deletes all partitions)

create partition primary size=80000 (creates a partition with 80 GB space; to use the entire disk as one partition, omit the “size=value” parameter switch; use a similar command to create more partitions if needed or create in Windows 7 after installation)

select partition 1

active

format fs=ntfs quick

exit

 

[bigdave9576]

Where do I run the command prompt? At what point in boot up?

Thanks for the help!

 

[ignatzatsonic]

If you are booting from the Windows 7 install disc, you hit SHIFT and F10 keys at the first screen (where you are asked about language and location).

Those keys in combination drop you into a command prompt, where you then issue the commands.

When you finish and type exit, you will be dropped back into the Windows 7 install.

But I'm not sure you are simply trying to partition, format, and install?

 

[theog]

theog,

Thanks! But thats what I have been trying. I click on load drivers, then I locate the relevant driver and select it. The loading bar moves for a while, and then it returns to that page with no driver in sight.

Do I have to do the whole F6 thing on boot? Or set any jumpers on the actual HD itself?

I'm pulling my hair out!


Thanks!

Dave

Are these the drivers you loading?

If not, download from here:

GA-MA790XT-UD4P (rev. 1.0) - GIGABYTE - Support&Download - Motherboard - Driver

 

[dyce1120]

I have the exact same problem as Dave.

Stats:
HP Touchsmart iq506
Intel 2.16 Core Duo
Chipset: Intel Mobile GM965 Express
500GB Seagate drive
Motherboard - Pegatron IMISR-CF

Doing a clean install of windows 7 (tried a recovery of vista as well), so it is not an OS issue. PC had worked fine prior, so there is no wire and or physical drive issue.

During the install it does not show the drive I have (Seagate 500GB), yet in the BIOS it shows up.

However, when I run You cannot select or format a hard disk partition when you try to install Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 (step 8) - diskpart
The drive shows up as Disk 1 but as offline (with zero's for size/capacity)

In the Windows 7 Install - when it asks for which drive do you want to load the OS on, I do not have an selections and it calls for the Mass Storage Device driver (
I have loaded the original intel mass storage drivers.
Intel® Rapid Storage Technology 64-bit Intel® RST Driver Files for F6 Install
to a USB drive and try to load during the process.

So my questions are:
1. How do I confirm which drivers I need based on my computer info?
2. If the diskpart results are showing as they are showing the disk is not online, this I assume is the issue because the storage drivers are not available, thus the drive cannot be detected as online except for when it shows in the BIOS.

I have been struggling at this one for a bit, so thanks in advance for your help!

 

[dyce1120]

Adding to my above thread

I just ran diskpart to view the disks
and it comes up as Disk 1 Status No Media Size = 0
type det disk
and shows no media, no id for the disk, location path unavailable and says no volumes.

So my guess is that the controllers for the drive have either become corrupt during one of the reinstalls. so now the drive does not show.

But again in the BIOS it does show up as being there with the storage size of 500GB.

Thanks for your help!

 

[theog]

Check with a hard drive diagnostic tools.

Hard Drive Diagnostics Tools and Utilities (Storage) - TACKtech Corp.

 

[BigPete7]

OCZ Vertex 2 SSD won't detect in windows 7 x64 install

I am having the same problem - Windows install won't detect my new OCZ Vertex 2 SSD. I have tried the following:

Downloading drivers from Asus website and clicking the "load drivers" button in the install.
Downloading drivers from Intel website and clicking the "load drivers" button in the install.
Updating the bios of my notebook.
Updating the firmware for the SSD (no new firmware release as yet, apparently it was due on 1st June 2010.)
Ghosting the original drive to the SSD - just a normal "disk to disk" ghost. I'm not sure exactly what happened, if it copied fully or it didn't, but there were no error messages. "Missing operating system" (still) after doing this and trying to boot from the SSD.

There are virtially no options for anything in the BIOS apart from boot order. No "ide mode" or "AHCI mode".

There is only 1 HDD bay in this laptop, there is usually two but this model has extra ram slots in the second hdd bay (hence the 8gb ram - 4 x 2gb).

The hdd detects in the bios and is useable if plugged into another working machine, either internally or via a usb cadddy.

pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase somebody help!

 

[nickc]

if you are unable to even install windows 7 this idea may help.
get ubuntu from another computer
Download | Ubuntu
put it on a flash drive
Universal USB Installer – Easy as 1 2 3 | USB Pen Drive Linux
run linux from the flash drive. once your running from there, open a program called administration>gparted. in gparted you can format any hard drive. it sounded like you couldn't format it because you were using it and you didnt have the os running. im not really sure. i hope this helps! : )