Blackbird Rush
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| posted on 11/1/13 at 10:01 PM |
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Hard drive not listed arrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!
Hi all
Hopefully someone here can point me in the right direction.
I'm putting a new hard drive in the laptop and doing a fresh install of windows 7 ( the laptop had vista before on the old hard disk)
I have checked the new hard drive in my other PC and set up a partition so it's readable and is listed in my computer.
Putting it into the destination laptop and booting win 7 from the cd the set up starts but then when looking for the destination drive to install
windows no drives are listed??
Looking in the bios the drive is listed?
Help please before I chuck it down the stairs and buy a mac! :-)
Cheers
Ash
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mookaloid
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| posted on 11/1/13 at 10:10 PM |
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What sort of Laptop is it? Might be a bios setting needs changing.
"That thing you're thinking - it wont be that."
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Slimy38
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| posted on 11/1/13 at 10:10 PM |
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Personally I'd put it back into your other PC and clear all partitions and everything else. Get it back to a blank disk, and then let Windows 7
do it's business. It doesn't need to work with partitions as it creates them during install, and I've found it works much better on
drives that don't have partitions.
The next step is to make sure the drivers for the hard drive controller is actually part of Windows 7. I've never had new enough hardware to be
in this situation, but I do know from friends who have tried solid state drives that it can sometimes need a driver to be installed at the right stage
on install. There's a bit of a difference between the laptop knowing there's a drive there, and Windows knowing how to use it.
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Blackbird Rush
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| posted on 11/1/13 at 10:15 PM |
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It's a dell Inspiron 1721
I do get to a part of the install where I can load drivers , however knowing what drivers to use is a bit of a mystery as the drivers I got from the
dell website are in an exe format.
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coozer
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| posted on 11/1/13 at 10:17 PM |
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You probably need to format it in the lappy so it teams up with the bios.
1972 V8 Jago
1980 Z750
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mookaloid
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| posted on 11/1/13 at 10:19 PM |
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I had this with a Dell a few weeks ago.
It was the hard drive mode in the bios. there were 2 modes available - try changing it to the other one!
"That thing you're thinking - it wont be that."
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pmc_3
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| posted on 11/1/13 at 10:24 PM |
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There will be a setting in the bios to change between ahci and compatibilty mode
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mookaloid
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| posted on 11/1/13 at 10:26 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by pmc_3
There will be a setting in the bios to change between ahci and compatibilty mode
That's it 
"That thing you're thinking - it wont be that."
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Blackbird Rush
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| posted on 11/1/13 at 10:27 PM |
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Ok but when I've looked in the bios there was little I could change?
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mookaloid
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| posted on 11/1/13 at 10:42 PM |
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some info here might help
"That thing you're thinking - it wont be that."
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Blackbird Rush
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| posted on 11/1/13 at 11:11 PM |
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Success !!!!!
Downloaded a different driver and it worked, so thanks for the pointers.
Installing.........
Cheers
Ash.
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