Hi,
I spent the afternoon putting together my new PC:
Intel i5, GB P55-UD3, Seagate 500gb SATA, my optical is an IDE. All brand new virgin hardware (except the ide optical obviously).
Everything went well, POST with no problems and everything is looking good in BIOS: CPU, RAM, HDD optical all showing up correctly.
Next when I install and boot from the win 7 64-bit install disk, after a long time I get enter my language preferences, then i get the error that windows cannot find my HD or any drive suitable to install on and am prompted to install the drivers.
I then browsed for the drivers, trying either swapping out the win 7 dvd for the mobo driver or having the mobo drivers on a usb. Unless I unselect the "hide drivers that are incompatibe with my hardware" option I fail to find the drivers even though I know they are there by browsing cd on another machine. Weird anyway coz they are the drivers that came with the mobo, and also tried downloading drivers from the gigabyte website but they don't work either.
Ok, so with the "hide drivers that are incompatibe with my hardware" unselected I get a list of about 8 drivers on the screen to choose (either from USB or swapping cd). They all seem to have the word "RAID" in them which doesn't seem right as I am not running RAID. I have tried selecting all of the drivers buty windows doesn't like any of them.
I have read the numerous forums regarding similar problems with XP, but none of the suggestions regarding BIOS settings have helped. In BIOS I have tried everything of the 2 SATA config options I can see.
I had an old XP disk I tried to install that two, after about 2 hours of formatting the drive I get a similar error where I am told XP cannot format the drive.
Any ideas where I am going wrong??
Thanks,
John
I spent the afternoon putting together my new PC:
Intel i5, GB P55-UD3, Seagate 500gb SATA, my optical is an IDE. All brand new virgin hardware (except the ide optical obviously).
Everything went well, POST with no problems and everything is looking good in BIOS: CPU, RAM, HDD optical all showing up correctly.
Next when I install and boot from the win 7 64-bit install disk, after a long time I get enter my language preferences, then i get the error that windows cannot find my HD or any drive suitable to install on and am prompted to install the drivers.
I then browsed for the drivers, trying either swapping out the win 7 dvd for the mobo driver or having the mobo drivers on a usb. Unless I unselect the "hide drivers that are incompatibe with my hardware" option I fail to find the drivers even though I know they are there by browsing cd on another machine. Weird anyway coz they are the drivers that came with the mobo, and also tried downloading drivers from the gigabyte website but they don't work either.
Ok, so with the "hide drivers that are incompatibe with my hardware" unselected I get a list of about 8 drivers on the screen to choose (either from USB or swapping cd). They all seem to have the word "RAID" in them which doesn't seem right as I am not running RAID. I have tried selecting all of the drivers buty windows doesn't like any of them.
I have read the numerous forums regarding similar problems with XP, but none of the suggestions regarding BIOS settings have helped. In BIOS I have tried everything of the 2 SATA config options I can see.
I had an old XP disk I tried to install that two, after about 2 hours of formatting the drive I get a similar error where I am told XP cannot format the drive.
Any ideas where I am going wrong??
Thanks,
John