Can't find Hard Drive during installation

soonermagic · External Since: Apr 26, 2007 Posts: 1

Vista installation process starts normally, requesting the key and new
install or upgrade. When the program gets to the hard drive section, it
informs me it can't find the hard drives... I have searched for the
standard drivers through windows and even attempted to load drivers
with no response. The program doesn't allow me to attempt to format the
hard drive or partition. I am attempting to load a WD2500JD; I also
have a Seagate HD. These HD's are recognized in the BIOS, hence they
are working.

Any help is much obliged.

Dwain Warner

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soonermagic

Alfred Kaufmann · External Since: Feb 02, 2007 Posts: 109

Check the CD that came with your motherboard and see if there is an
option to put your Sata drivers onto a blank floppy or a USB drive.
These would need to be loaded for Vista to find these drives.

Ak

On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:47:48 -0500, soonermagic
<soonermagic.2po6a1.RemoveThis@no-mx.forums.net> wrote:

>
>Vista installation process starts normally, requesting the key and new
>install or upgrade. When the program gets to the hard drive section, it
>informs me it can't find the hard drives... I have searched for the
>standard drivers through windows and even attempted to load drivers
>with no response. The program doesn't allow me to attempt to format the
>hard drive or partition. I am attempting to load a WD2500JD; I also
>have a Seagate HD. These HD's are recognized in the BIOS, hence they
>are working.
>
>Any help is much obliged.
>
>Dwain Warner

José_Silva · External Since: Jun 27, 2007 Posts: 3

On the same screen showing no active drive or partition, it should be an
option next to the bottom right corner, "drive options".
Click on it, and then click on "new".
Select the HD/Partition you want to install on.
José
"soonermagic" <soonermagic.2po6a1.TakeThisOut@no-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
news:soonermagic.2po6a1@no-mx.forums.net...
>
> Vista installation process starts normally, requesting the key and new
> install or upgrade. When the program gets to the hard drive section, it
> informs me it can't find the hard drives... I have searched for the
> standard drivers through windows and even attempted to load drivers
> with no response. The program doesn't allow me to attempt to format the
> hard drive or partition. I am attempting to load a WD2500JD; I also
> have a Seagate HD. These HD's are recognized in the BIOS, hence they
> are working.
>
> Any help is much obliged.
>
> Dwain Warner
>
>
> --
> soonermagic

rickrh72 · External Since: Apr 08, 2007 Posts: 9

Hi
I just went through this with my Gigabyte 965P-DQ6 mobo. I had the same
problem. What I finally ended up doing is loading Vista on a hard drive on
another machine and then using Ghost 2003 to mirror the os onto the WD5000YS
drive I have. Then I did a repair of the os from the Vista disk. Its a lot of
messing around but it works. Hope this helps, have fun Rick

"JosÃ© Silva" wrote:

> On the same screen showing no active drive or partition, it should be an
> option next to the bottom right corner, "drive options".
> Click on it, and then click on "new".
> Select the HD/Partition you want to install on.
> Jos
> "soonermagic" <soonermagic.2po6a1 RemoveThis @no-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
> news:soonermagic.2po6a1@no-mx.forums.net...
> >
> > Vista installation process starts normally, requesting the key and new
> > install or upgrade. When the program gets to the hard drive section, it
> > informs me it can't find the hard drives... I have searched for the
> > standard drivers through windows and even attempted to load drivers
> > with no response. The program doesn't allow me to attempt to format the
> > hard drive or partition. I am attempting to load a WD2500JD; I also
> > have a Seagate HD. These HD's are recognized in the BIOS, hence they
> > are working.
> >
> > Any help is much obliged.
> >
> > Dwain Warner
> >
> >
> > --
> > soonermagic
>

apaulsalerno · External Since: Sep 23, 2009 Posts: 1

Go to bios, turn off "RAID ON" to "RAID AUTODETECT" and save the
changes. It worked for me.

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