Hard Drive Not Detected - Yet Windows Installed

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RedStarCG

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Hi there, I currently ran into an issue. Let me explain a little about what has happened so you know where I am at.

I built my own system and everything was fine. I installed windows and things are good.

Today I wanted to format because windows is running a little slow and I want to just start fresh. Issue is that when I try to format my windows the HDD is not detected. My windows still boots and in the bios my hdd is detected but when it comes to installing windows it is not. I tried running diognostic and same issue. Is this common or am I one of the lucky guys who has his own issue?
My brother also had an issue like this but it was with a seagate,
Here are my computer specs just incase.

P6T Deluxe Mobo
Western Digital VelociRaptor 300 GB HDD
OZ Ram
I7 CPU

Other then that I dont think anything should affect my hdd not being detected for the format?
 
try running a chkdsk in your command prompt and see if it tells you any of the driver cells are bad. thats the best advice i can give you.
 
well i know that the veloc's are 10000 rpm so its possible you need a bios flash to reformat it. im really out of ideas. i could do a little research to see if its a common problem.
 
I fixed the issue thanks for the help. Turns out I have two SAS plugs and 6 Sata, I accidently put hdd into SAS. NOt sure how it was working but it was.

I do have another issue now, whenever I try to install an application my computer would turn blue and restart on me. Any idea what can cause this?
 
RedStarCG said:
I fixed the issue thanks for the help. Turns out I have two SAS plugs and 6 Sata, I accidently put hdd into SAS. NOt sure how it was working but it was.

I do have another issue now, whenever I try to install an application my computer would turn blue and restart on me. Any idea what can cause this?
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create a new thread mate, someone might have a solution to your problem but wont look in this thread cos its about something else
 
Yeah, I fixed that issue to. Since I didn't really have anything installed I formated again and that got rid of it, for now at least.
 
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