Hello Brian, You might want to check to see if there is no bad sectors between LBA 0 and 2048 on the drive. If the computer can detect the hard drive, but the OS install cannot this is usually what he problem is.
Regards Tim Lider Sr. Data Recovery Specialist Advanced Data Solutions, LLC http://www.adv-data.com > -----Original Message----- > From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- > boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden > Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 6:31 AM > To: hwg > Subject: [H] Win 7 setup not recognizing drives > > I've got several 250 GB Seagate drives that used to be in my HTPC RAID. > They've been replaced by 1 TB drives so now I'm looking to use them > elsewhere. > > I am trying to install Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit which I just purchased > on > one of those drives. The drive detects perfectly fine in BIOS, has no > problems, but the Win 7 setup will not find it or show it as an option > to > install to. If I put another drive on that same exact connector/cable, > it > detects it. > > Is there something that the RAID adapter/software could have changed on > the > drive to cause this? When I migrated to the new RAID, I copied all the > data > from the old RAID to the new one which was running on a new controller. > I > then just disconnected all the old 250 GB drives and put them in > storage. > > --------------------------- > Brian Weeden > Technical Advisor > Secure World Foundation <http://www.secureworldfoundation.org> > +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada > +1 (202) 683-8534 US
