Windows 7 does not see SATA drive at install.

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Hi guys,

I’m hoping maybe one of you could shed some light onto a problem I have.

I recently built a new computer using to 2x500 gig drives in raid 0. I used windows 7 64bit as the OS with a 4 core AMD processor and 4 gig of corsair ram.

The Gigabyte MB died on me so I had to replace, thankfully I managed to get the same board. I found an old HD and installed windows to that. I then plugged my 2 drives in RAID into some other SATA slots. Thankfully it gave me access and allowed me to retrieve some photographs I thought I may have lost. One of the 500 gig HD’s had a broken bracket on the back so I thought this would be a good opportunity to get rid of it. I was left with the old HD with windows on; it’s old slow and makes a noise and one 500 gig drive which I then formatted by right clicking on the drive in “my computer”.

Now, what I want to do is bin the small old drive and have the 500 gig drive as the one which has the OS on, my boot drive. However if I take the old drive out just leaving the 500 gig one and try and install windows, the windows installation does not see it. I have tried loading the MB drivers but that doesn’t work either. If I plug the old back in it boots straight off. Bios allways recognises what drives i have plugged in at start up. I have tried a number of settings in BIOS to no avail.

Please help.
 
I dont have usb devices installed bar the keyboard and mouse, but now you say it I do recall having to do something really daft with a keyboard the first time i did an install.

But i dont know until i get home and give it a whirl.
 
OK, I treid a few more things, i started to try and install again, when it got to it couldnt see any drives part i messed around with a few sata cables, trying different slots, plugging the broken drive in again and hitting refresh. Briefly both the drives apperaed although it wouldnt allow me to install to them. I had that problem the very first time I built the computer but cant remeber how i got around it. Then i couldnt get the drives at all again.

So, i take the cmos battery out and unplug from mains and go to gym.

Get back and using the single drive i want to install to and a clean bios with no changes I try again, no luck, still doesnt see the drive.

Then i check the MB book and do what it says for SATA drives, again no luck.

So the one SATA cable i have connected to the drive I cant install to, I plug it into the old drive with a working install, Bam it loads straight up.

MB id a gigabyte 890GPA-UDH3

Bios settings are

onchip sata controller - enabled (default)


I also tried setting

onchip sata type - raid
onchip sata port4/5 - as sata type
onchip sata raid 5 support - enabled

not that it makes any difference.

I also tried loading drivers from the MB disc, but it doesnt want to know.

This is killing me, arrrghhh
 
Im not sure how it can be a fault though, I can plug it in and use it as a normal hard drive when windows is booted of the other HD.

There must be a magic button somwhere.
 
Its not looking good,

with windows open and running on this old disc, I insert the windows cd and let it auto run. I get the same as before, eiter upgrade or custom install. I select custom but dont see the drive, i only see the old drive, it says:

Disc 0 partition 1:system reserved (E) 100mb system
Disc 0 partition 2(C:) 152.6 gb primary the smiley is an error, im not smiling.

tried a few drivers of the mb disc and hit refresh but the drive isnt showing.
 
Khaaan! said:
Repartition the drive and reformat it?
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repartition the drive? I've not done that, could that have been lost when i formatted it after taking it out of raid? at the omment it just shows as one whole drive.

Enigma, i did have to load raid or sata drivers the first time, i think:confused:
 
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