Posted: 8/30/2010 2:39:20 PM EDT
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My relatively new (~1 year old) computer started acting up with graphics issues (specifiallly when playing WoW), constant disconnects from my fiber-optic (tested on 3 other PC's, pretty sure its not an ISP issue) and just recently started to blue-screen on me. I tried 10+ different NVIDIA graphics drivers for my GTX-295 with none , to little success. Motherboard is an ASUS P6T
Decided ti was time for a fresh install, and this is where I messed up apparently.... The CMOS/BIOS see's both of the CD/dvd players, recognizes the 300gig velicorapter HD, and I can get to the install part for Windows vista, XP, and Windows 7 , but the constant error that prevents my re-install says, on the Windows 3rd screen "where do you want to install Windows?" ––––>> "No drives were found. Click Load Drivers to provide a mass storage driver for installation." I've messed with this for the past 8 hours and have given up 
Any help is appreciated |
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If you have an option for "load failsafe defaults" in the bios, try that. It lowers your ram clock speed and resets other troublesome settings. Then set your boot priority to CD then Hard Drive, and make sure your cables are all plugged in securely.
If you have 2 Cd or dvd drives, try unplugging one or the other. I've had problems in the past trying to install with multiple optic drives present. Also try plugging the drive into a different Sata port. If none of that works, download WDtools: http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=612&sid=30&lang=en and burn it to a CD. Boot to the CD and run the diagnostic. If you don't have anything you want to keep on the drive, then run the Write Zeros utility, which will completely wipe the drive. Then try to reinstall windows. If this utility can't see the drive, then you have other problems. |
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Go here: http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=QtpKQuERkuYw6trc, go to Downloads, select your Operating System (Windows 7 64 bit would be the best one to install) and go under Chipset. Download the Intel Matrix Storage Manager and extract the Zip file. In the F6 directory there are two zip files, use the 64 one if you installed 64 bit, extract that to a USB flash drive. You can choose that driver when you're inside the Windows installer. |
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Boot the Windows 7 installer, press Shift F10 at bootup, opening a Command Line, type:
DISKPART LIST DISK SELECT DISK # (for Windows 7 disk) clean create partition primary select partition 1 assign letter=c: active format exit was the solution, hopefully this will help some other members in the future if needed :) |