How to disable FDD on AsRock Z77 Pro3?

[NerdBBQ]

So my Windows 7 installation keeps hanging on "Setup is starting..." forever, and a solution posted was to disable the floppy disk drive port since it's not being used. I'm kinda a newbie as this is my first PC Build, so thanks for the help.

 

[alexoiu]

Is SATA set to AHCI or IDE in BIOS? If AHCI, switch to IDE and see if it does work.

 

[NerdBBQ]

Thanks, that worked! But there's a new problem that came up. When I try to format a partition, I get the error "Failed to format the selected partition. [Error: 0x80070057]."

 

[alexoiu]

Try installing firstly the Intel SATA driver.
Then try using Disk management for deleting, shrinking or formatting the volume/partition.

 

[NerdBBQ]

How would you go about doing this?

 

[alexoiu]

Download the SATA driver from ftp://174.142.97.10/drivers/Intel/SATA/RapidStorage_Win8-64_Win8_Win7-64_Win7(v11.6.0.1030).zip
and install it.
Right click Computer, choose Manage, then Disk Management.
Right click the partition/volume you want to format and choose format. If not working, click delete and create a new one.
See if it does work this way. Make sure you save the necessary data from the partition you want to format and to not format/delete a wrong partition/volume. All data on it would be lost.

 

[photonboy]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/217073

You really SHOULD be using AHCI if possible however.

*Make sure no other hard drives are installed.

**If the hard drive issue continues, try to WRITE ZEROS to it. One of the tools in www.ultimatebootcd.com does this. (this gets rid of any formatting that may cause issues.)