That was my first thought aswell.
HDD Not found by windows
- Thread starter craigxt22
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it cant see it to install windows on
you cant choose to partition a drive if it doesnt show up
so the windows installer can't see your hdd, your not actually 'in windows' yet?
yeah installer cant see it because the mobo needs sata3 drivers
if he installs it on the sata2 port and changes it over after driver install it should be fine
they have sata3 nowi gotta keep up
Yep haha.
I'm off to football anyway, will try again tonight.
sounds like you may have a duff drive craig
do you have another pc you could try it on?
what game are you going to see? im a hearts supporter myself
were chasing celtic for 2nd spot just now
sounds like you may have a duff drive craig
yep, sounds like the drive is bad
got any sata/sata II drives you can try?
sounds like you may have a duff drive craig
do you have another pc you could try it on?
what game are you going to see? im a hearts supporter myself
were chasing celtic for 2nd spot just now
Southampton fan, we just beat Huddersfield 4 - 1
I'll try the HDD in an external enclosure.
Another thing I should mention is, while going through the Windows installation, it is really slow
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what exact model is the drive craig?
try it in an external on a different machine...maybe if you could get it formated windows
will see it....if it doesnt come up right away look in control panel/administrative tools/computer management then on the left hand side click disk management....
if its not in there its duff for sure
try it in an external on a different machine...maybe if you could get it formated windows
will see it....if it doesnt come up right away look in control panel/administrative tools/computer management then on the left hand side click disk management....
if its not in there its duff for sure
It's a Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB.
(http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-120-WD) - This one for reference
Just put it an external enclosure, and it's reading it. It's actually asking if I want to format it (this is on a PC with Windows 7 installed)
(http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-120-WD) - This one for reference
Just put it an external enclosure, and it's reading it. It's actually asking if I want to format it (this is on a PC with Windows 7 installed)
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ok so once youve done that take it out and try it in your machine with a w7 install...no reason now it wont see the drive.. try it in the sata 3 port if it doesnt see it try it in sata 2 and do what we discussed earlier which was sata 2 port install,then drivers (chipset first) restart to make sure it does all it registry changes then shut down change to sata3 port and hopefully its good to go