Reinstalling Windows 7 And Hdd Not Detected During Installation?
Jan 23, 2012
Just today, I decided to reset the BIOS to default settings by resetting the CMOSI used a metal screwdriver to touch the two cmos pins on the motherboard. The problem is, the computer WAS turned off BUT I forgot to pull the plug out of the power supply before resetting the cmos which is what caused the problems. It ended up booting the computer so I waited for it to load and when it got to the screen that said loading operating system underneath it it said missing operating system. I've researched this and checked my bios settings to make sure the hdd was the first boot priority choice and it was.After a few failed tries to get it to work, I was almost convinced my hdd's were fried. I tried re-installing windows 7 by booting to the dvd first, but during installation, when i got to the box that makes me choose my hdd no hdd's were listed. I brought up the command prompt to do a chkdsk and I got the message "This drive is in raw format". After that, I turned the pc off, unplugged the power cord, and took the hdd's out. I reformatted them by connecting them to a startech device and connecting that to my laptop (which is not the tower the drives were originally connected to).
After reformatting to ntfs, I ran chkdsk /f/r on both my hdd's. After this, I'm convinced that my hdd's aren't fried otherwise the device wouldn't have picked them up in the first place. I thought they'd be good to go after the chkdsk ran on both of them but i'm having the same problems trying to re-install windows 7. The only progress now is, I can actually run chkdsk with the drives back in my tower which i'm doing right now.In the dialog box, it said something about loading drivers? I thought the computer would pick up the hdd's anyway because i've re-installed win7 before and never had these issues. So what's your suggestions? Am I going to have to find the drivers for the hdd's and install them before reinstalling win7
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Jan 3, 2013
i am currently running Windows 7 32 bit and want to upgrade to 64 bit. There are some programs installed like Microsoft office which i want to keep so i want to install 64 bit on a partition. i have my product key and I am running windows professional.
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I tried to reformat my dads hard drive to reinstall windows 7. It was in 2 partitions, so I ran the windows 7 disc and it ran through the motions, I formatted the c to re-install windows and it wouldn't let me. I went into dos under diskpart to try and format it that way, still no luck. I connected it to my computer then under disk management deleted the 2 partitions so there was only 1 now which had the size i.e, 600GB Unallocated. I connected it back into my dads computer and ran the set-up again. Now the computer wont even detect the drive. I need to re-format the drive to like factory default, is this possible, also do I have to do it in dos.
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Aug 19, 2009
I'm using Win 7 Professional x64 rtm from MSDNAA.
When i try to create a clean install, everything goes smooth untill the Partition selection screen. I get a "no drives were detected" notice and the list is empty. It offers the Load drivers option but i dont really know where to get them.
I have Striker Extreme motherboard, and a wdc wd5000aaks SCSI hard drive (connected via SATA).
Im running Vista Ultimate x64 at the moment. If i use vista's install dvd to see if it finds hdd drive during installation, it does find them. Also if i try to use Windows 7 installer from within Vista, win 7 installer finds my hdd normally.
What should i do?
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Aug 19, 2009
I'm using Win 7 Professional x64 rtm from MSDNAA.
When i try to create a clean install, everything goes smooth untill the Partition selection screen. I get a "no drives were detected" notice and the list is empty. It offers the Load drivers option but i dont really know where to get them.
I have Striker Extreme motherboard, and a wdc wd5000aaks SCSI hard drive (connected via SATA).
Im running Vista Ultimate x64 at the moment. If i use vista's install dvd to see if it finds hdd drive during installation, it does find them. Also if i try to use Windows 7 installer from within Vista, win 7 installer finds my hdd normally.
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I recently built a new computer system that contains my old HDD, which I transferred from my previous PC. The old copy of Windows 7 that was already installed didn't work in the new PC, as expected. Instead, I have a new copy of Windows 7 available that I need to get on the HDD. But I also need to deal with the old Windows copy. I've already transferred all of my personal files from the old copy onto a portable HDD for safe keeping. What I plan on doing is reinstalling the new copy of Windows 7 onto the PC's HDD to be used in the new computer. I was able to acquire the new Windows 7 version for a really cheap price from my college.
So now I either have to format my HDD so that the new Windows 7 can work properly while keeping the old/useless version out of the way, or wipe the old Windows 7 from the HDD completely. Should I keep the old Windows 7 on the HDD and just never use it, or would that conflict too much with the partition used by the new version? If they do conflict, how should I go about removing the old Windows 7 partition? dealing with the HDD and OS seems to be one of the most annoying parts of a PC.
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If so do I have to uninstall it first or will a simple wipe off the hard drive deactivate the 32 bit key? Also is there a cheaper option to purchasing the OEM software again, such as upgrading from 32bit to 64bit?
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I5 2400
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May 28, 2010
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