64bit installer can't find my SATA harddrive

[Felicianomiko]

Decided to finally take the plunge and install Win7 instead of XP this go around. But when I try to install Win7, it can't find my HD. I have a SAMSUNG Spinpoint F1 HD322HJ 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5". I was working fine not 3 days ago running XP. I've tried changing the SATA setting in the BIOS from RAID to AHCI, but this doesn't seem to help. I've done some hunting around and one thing to try was to install the HD drivers, but I can't find drivers for my HD anywhere. Or at least, nothing that I recognize as the drivers. Any ideas?

Thanks so much for your time.

 

[noidea_77]

You don't need a hdd driver, you need a sata controller driver for your mobo. Download the f6 driver from the manufacturer.

 

[Felicianomiko]

You don't need a hdd driver, you need a sata controller driver for your mobo. Download the f6 driver from the manufacturer.

Okay, that makes sense. Any way to install that from a USB or do I need to make a bootable CD for this? I've been out of this stuff for too long...

 

[noidea_77]

USB should work. Newer mobos recognize usb sticks while booting. And it doesn't have to be bootable. Boot from the win DVD and goto advanced disk options, when selecting the boot disk.