My hard disk is showing in BIOS, But not while installing windows 7

jabirkv

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While installing windows 7 iam facing the issue of the driver not found. But my hard disk is showing in BIOS and not in Windows setup. on my first installation there was everything right but it ruined because of power failure. I afraid that my hard drive is gone thereafter. Please help me
Jabir
 
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Welcome to Tom's Hardware, @jabirkv!

I'd recommend you check the SATA mode for the hard drive in BIOS first. Make sure it is set to AHCI, or try swapping it to IDE and then back to AHCI. It's also important to have the latest SATA controller & Chipset drivers for your motherboard installed from the official mobo website or the computer manufacturer. You should be able to find your model there.
This should help you get the HDD properly detected by the OS installation DVD/USB. Once you can see the HDD there, you should be able to successfully clean install Windows 7 OS.

Hope it helps. Good luck! :)
SuperSoph_WD
Welcome to Tom's Hardware, @jabirkv!

I'd recommend you check the SATA mode for the hard drive in BIOS first. Make sure it is set to AHCI, or try swapping it to IDE and then back to AHCI. It's also important to have the latest SATA controller & Chipset drivers for your motherboard installed from the official mobo website or the computer manufacturer. You should be able to find your model there.
This should help you get the HDD properly detected by the OS installation DVD/USB. Once you can see the HDD there, you should be able to successfully clean install Windows 7 OS.

Hope it helps. Good luck! :)
SuperSoph_WD
 
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