struggling to install windows 7, no driver can be located

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im trying to custom install windows 7 on my new pc which i ordered off the internet. it is asking for driver to install on however, it can not find one, please can someone help, its killing me haha! thank you

the spec;Power Supply : Aerocool VP Pro 850 Watt Branded PSU
Motherboard : Gigabyte H81M-S2PV
CPU : Intel I5 4th Gen 4670 Quad Core 3.4Ghz (turbo 3.8Ghz) CPU
Hard Drive : 500gb Sata Hard Drive
Memory : 4gb DDR3 1600mhz Corsair Vengeance Memory
Graphics Card : Nvidia GTX 650 Ti 1gb (Dual screen support via DVI / MINI HDMI / VGA)
Optical Drive : 24x Dual Layer DVD Writer
Warranty : 12 Months Return To Base (Parts & Labour)
Connections : 6 x USB 2.0 / 2 x USB 3.0 / LAN / Sound
 
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Try again with this post, does not make sense the way you wrote it. Is Windows still asking for a driver? It may be the chipset driver or the raid controller. Is the hard drive plugged into SATA port 0? You can get the drivers from Gigabyte and put them on a disk for Windows to find, would probably have to extract them if the driver download is a single file. You'll need the drivers in the form of multiple files, usually .dll files with a few .ini files.
 
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ok i shall try that, sorry about the typo's. Im not sure about the connections, ill open the pc up and have a look. Also, yes, its still asking for a driver which windows can install on, yet nothing (still) is showing up
 
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i dont have a control panel as i dont have windows yet. My problem is that im trying to isntall windows 7 on a fresh Hard Drive yet no drivers are appearing when asking me what driver i want to install
 
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ubercake

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You don't have Windows installed....

You may have been prompted during the Windows install for special proprietary drivers such RAID or other. You don't want to install those. I would restart the install. Only go through the default installation - for the most part - and only create disk partitions as necessary. Did you get past the disk format section of the install?

At any rate, you absolutely want the disk mode set to AHCI in the BIOS prior to the install. Windows 7 can handle that natively.
 
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I downloaded the driver off of Gigabyte. I then extracted the files straight to my USB. Then put the USB into my computer when it asked for a driver. Then i went to the 64x driver which i downloaded and extracted, clicked next, thought it was going to work then it said |"to continue install, use the Load Driver option to install 32 - bit and signed 64-bit drivers. Installing a 64-bit is not supported and can be harmful" <-----any fix for this? am i doing something wrong?
 
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No, i only got to where you select which driver you wish to be installed, and having clicked the downloaded driver on my usb, it gave me an error saying i cant install unsigned 64x drivers
 
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I would definitely recommend you find someone you know that has done a Windows 7 install or talk to someone at a computer store nearby to kind of walk you through the motions. They will be able to see exactly what you're seeing through the process. The Microsoft stores around are pretty good about helping with this kind of thing at no cost because they want you using Windows.
 
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Check with Gigabyte support, they are the ones supplying the drivers that look to be not working with Windows setup.
 
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The windows installation is asking for the SATA driver -- so that it can then use the SATA bus and locate the HDD which is plugged into it. Download the SATA III drivers from Gigabyte and copy them to a USB thumbdrive or disk (or use the disk that should have been included with the MOBO) and when it asks for the driver browse to the downloaded file, (or remove the install disk and put in the driver disk) so that windows can install them. Windows does not come with SATA III drivers so it does not know how to use to your HDD which is connected to the SATA III port and thus needs the driver before it can find your HDD to install windows on.

Another option would be to move the HDD to a SATA II connector but that may effect performance of the system so better to download the SATA III driver from GIGABYTE.
 
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He's right. You need to put the driver on a memory stick.... The one that says 'Intel SATA Preinstall driver
(For AHCI / RAID Mode)
Note: Windows setup to read from USB thumb drive.'

Put that on a thumb drive and plug it into a USB port on the back of the motherboard during the install.
 
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