Windows 7 not finding SATA Drivers

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erick613

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Hello,

So I took the liberty of finally building my own computer, after a couple of hours of building it, cable management, and getting a new psu. I finally got it working, but I ran into problems with the Windows 7 setup. It wouldn't detect my hard drive, regardless of it showing up in the bios. I scanned my CD that came with the motherboard, and it didn't find anything.

I checked Western-Digital website, but no-dice.

Here's my specs, any help is appreciated.

CPU: AMD A8-6600K (Not OCED)
Motherboard: MSI A68HM-E33
Ram: PNY (1x8) DDR3 1600
HDD: 500gb Western-Digital Caviar-Blue at 7200rpm
GPU: Integrated Graphics
PSU: Insignia 520w

Any help is appreciated.
 
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Karsten75
That's really weird. Windows 7 should come with at least very basic SATA drivers. Do you get an option to insert a disk with drivers during the install process?

In the BIOS, do you have the drive as SATA, RAID or AHCI?
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erick613

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I do get the option, but I check my msi disk and it finds nothing
 
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N1TI

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Ran into the same problem here too. Just received my A68HM-E33 as part of a NewEgg combo with an AMD-A8-7600, 8G of DDR3 and a Mushkin 120G Sata III SSD. When I try ti install Win 7 I get a message to load sata drivers. I have tried to load updated driver at this stage of the installation (both from DVD that came with the motherboard and fresh ones from MSI's web site. Either case doesn't find suitable drivers. This is my first experience with an AMD build. I tried both my Win 7 Home as well as Pro install disks...same issue. Tried different install sources (internal SATA DVD as well as external USB drive...same result. In the numerous Intel builds I have never encountered this. I would think that the stock drivers included in the Win 7 installs would be sufficient but can't get past this step. To verigy the hardware I installed Linux Mint 17.1 and it went in like a champ. I have defaulted the MB and tried again but with repeatable Win 7 results. Any ideas anyone?

Followup: I tried three different target drives (SSD, HD) as well as three different source drives. Tried changing the SATA orders. It obviously sees the SATA ports to begin the install but after you select the country and time zones it goes off and complains about the drivers.
 
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