Need help after formatting

nazmi10

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Hello,
I have Compaq Presario CQ43-104TU. I decide to farmat it, after major performance impact. So, I formated it using PARAGON HARD DISK MANAGER PROFESSIONAL based on Win PE on my winndows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. I boot it using USB drive. Then, when i try to reinstalling windows 7 Ultimate from USB drive, in setup menu, it give a message 'windows cant find any hard disk'. Then, it give an option to load the digitally signed hard disk driver from any media like CD, DVD and USB drive.

What should I do?
Please help me. :(
Thank you
 

popatim

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what did you format it to with paragon? fat32? ntfs? something else?

If you are using the drive in raid mode (for raid or for using it with a cache ssd) then you will need to install the raid driver.

Otherwise I suspect you formatted the drive to soomething windows cant read so you will need to remove it. During Install when it asks you to select the drive to install too you can click the advanced drive options, delete any existing partitions and then when the disk is showing as unallocated highlight it and click next. Windows will proceed normally from there.
 

nazmi10

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i formatted it to NTFS. the 'advanced tab' is hidden. the only tab option left is 'refresh' and 'browse'. the 'browse' option will ask for digitally signed driver to load from. the 'advanced' button and the others still hidden.