First build...Hard Drive problems...Please Help me out guys :)

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(Sorry for posting 2 threads, i don't know how to delete the other one...)

Hey guys, I'm a newbee to building pc, and have encountered some problem, I tried to figure this out all last night, and would really appreciate some help:)

This is my new pc.
AMD Phenom II X4 955
Galaxy GTX 465
WD SATA 6gb/s 320GB Hard Drive
ASrock 890gx Pro3
Gskill 4GB DDR3 1600 RAM
Cooler master silent pro 600W PSU
ASUS DVD+RW
Antec 300 case

I am to the point that everything is installed, and the computer successfully boots up. But when I tried to install windows 7, after selecting a clean installation, i don't see any available hard drives. So I figured that I should put in my mobo drivers cd, and browsed through the cd, finding the SATA 3 folder, but after clicking on it, Windows installation tells me that "No signed drivers were found"please make sure I have the correct drivers on my media, something like that.

Also I checked my bios, in the storage device part. It seems that my Hard drive is recognized as 0.0GB. I tried to enable all the SATA options. I selected "IDE"(don't know if that matters) mode.
 
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Weird, I was just experiencing a similar problem to this. I haven't quite figured it out yet either. :( For starters, you could check your hard drive jumper to make sure that it's set to Master or Cable Select, and make sure your cables are all plugged in fully. Of course, I'm still having issues after checking both those things. However, It does recognize the drive now. :)
 
spynoodle said:
Weird, I was just experiencing a similar problem to this. I haven't quite figured it out yet either. :( For starters, you could check your hard drive jumper to make sure that it's set to Master or Cable Select, and make sure your cables are all plugged in fully. Of course, I'm still having issues after checking both those things. However, It does recognize the drive now. :)
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thx for the reply


What did you do to get your drive recognized?.
It's a SATA drive,i did a little research and i don't think i should be concerned about the jumpers, right?..
 
YGBMB said:
thx for the reply


What did you do to get your drive recognized?.
It's a SATA drive,i did a little research and i don't think i should be concerned about the jumpers, right?..
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Whoops, I forgot that SATA drives don't have jumpers. :o I actually can't quite remember what I did to get the drive recognized. It's not actually my computer, but I believe that my friend (who owns the computer) just reseated a few cables. The drive still isn't actually working, though.
 
Strange,Have you tried Disabling ACHI in the Bios and see if the Drive then appears in Windows setup?

Deleted your other thread btw. :)
 
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