Am I doing something wrong here?
Last night I tried installing Vista and Windows 7 onto a sata drive. These were clean install attempts. When getting to the point where its asks to load the drivers, I point it to the drivers I downloaded for my mobo, but after it installs the driver, it still does not detect the drive. This happened in both Vista and 7. I was trying to install the x64 bit version for both. If I go and reload the driver again, it no longer shows up as compatible hardware.
Drive shows up in BIOS just fine.
I tried with the drivers off of the mobo disk too and same results. I'm a little stumped.
Also tried AHCI vs IDE mode for SATA, no difference.
The drive was working as I just pulled it from another machine earlier that day.
I've installed 7 before on the same drive on an older Intel board and it worked fine after installing drivers.
Any tips? Installing it on an Asus M4A78T-E board.
Edit: Just occured to me that maybe I should have posted this in the Motherboard section.
Last night I tried installing Vista and Windows 7 onto a sata drive. These were clean install attempts. When getting to the point where its asks to load the drivers, I point it to the drivers I downloaded for my mobo, but after it installs the driver, it still does not detect the drive. This happened in both Vista and 7. I was trying to install the x64 bit version for both. If I go and reload the driver again, it no longer shows up as compatible hardware.
Drive shows up in BIOS just fine.
I tried with the drivers off of the mobo disk too and same results. I'm a little stumped.
Also tried AHCI vs IDE mode for SATA, no difference.
The drive was working as I just pulled it from another machine earlier that day.
I've installed 7 before on the same drive on an older Intel board and it worked fine after installing drivers.
Any tips? Installing it on an Asus M4A78T-E board.
Edit: Just occured to me that maybe I should have posted this in the Motherboard section.