Windows cannot find drives. (PLEASE HELP!)

jackmonty57

jackmonty57

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I finally got my pc for OCUK on friday and I finished building it today. When I try and install windows 7 it says it cannot detect my hdd. I've checked all the connections and everythings fine. The optical drive(sata3) works fine because its loading the OS disk.

Thanks in advance.

NB:

mobo: GIGABYTE 870 A UD3
HDD: samsung f3 1tb sata II.
 
ms2010 said:
I notice in the manual for your motherboard there are 8 sata3 connectors and the motherboard is capable of RAID
http://download.gigabyte.eu/FileList/Manual/mb_manual_ga-870a-ud3_e.pdf

If using RAID windows sometimes needs an extra driver at the start on the install process in order to see devices connected to certain controllers.

If your just using a single drive(non-RAID), you could check the BIOS and make sure its not set for RAID , make sure your connected too SATA3_0 , which is your best bet for getting your harddrive detected

According to the manual, there is a group of 4 SATA connectors on the motherboard and SATA3_0 is the top left one of those (the other 4 connectors being slightly above and to the right of those 4 grouped)
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Cheers for the quick reply. Can i hook my HDD to a sata 3 plug? The problem is my GPU is big and covers the sata conectors. All the settings are set to IDE.
 
Its not actually connected to sata 01. Im new to this as well. How would i find out if my HDD is raid or ide? I was using sata 6( sataI andII compatible) for the HDD
 
right i just tried the HDD in sata3 0 (master?) and the optical drive at 2. No luck, windows still cannot find the drives. Il try it now in sata3 1 and see if that works. Thanks for all the stuff you wrote but its really confusing haha. If someone could maybe just give me steps (if sata3 1 doesnt work) that would be great, thanks again.
 
ms2010 said:
BTW sry if what i've put so far is confusing you, thought I was explaining reasonably well, even for someone new to PC builds, can be much harder to explain how to do something, than it is to be hand's on and just do it ;)
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Dont apologise haha. thanks for helping. reset "onboard gsata/ IDE mode" to ahci. there is another option is "onboard esata mode". will i change this to ahci?
 
now wait! just about to run the windows startup. on the black screen at the start there was like a driver detection thingy came up (sorry sounds stupid) and both the HDD and DVDrw came up as detected. heres hoping.
 
we have a new error guys haha. "the [*driver name*] device driver could not be installed. Contact your vendor for an updated driver". deary me. maybe GIGABYTE have a driver i could download?
 
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