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Last night I tried to install a new evga 970 ftw and Samsung 850 evo SSD into my computer. Now my computer worked fine right up until I deleted my old GPU drivers and tried to install my new 970 video card. Once I did this my pc was telling me to install a boot disk and I tried the ssd disk that came with it and the only thing that worked was the windows 7 boot disk.
Well since It seemed like I had to do a full windows reinstall I decide to drop in my EVO 850 SSD. So now at this point I have added my new video card and SSD and I am triying to install windows 7 video my boot disk which I bought. I get to the point where windows asks me what drive I want to use to install windows. Unfortunately there is no drive recognized or seen at all. This is where I am stuck and I need to know what to do in order to be able to install windows 7 on my new ssd. sorry for the long post I was trying to be as specific as possible. I am at work right now so I won't be able to tell you what settings are in my bios at the moment. Thanks for any help or advice, I appreciate it. I am hoping to get some advice here so that when I get home I can fight with pc some more.
Also here is my parts list for my PC as it was before installing my new video card and SSD.

motherboardvASRock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

cpu-ntel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge Quad-Core 3.3GHz (3.7GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W BX80623I52500K Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 3000

ram- CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9

GPU- EVGA SuperClocked 012-P3-1573-AR GeForce GTX 570 HD w/Display-Port (Fermi) 1280MB 320-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

Power supply- CORSAIR Gaming Series GS800 800W ATX12V v2.3 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC High Performance Power Supply

SSd - Kingston HyperX SH100S3B/120G 2.5" 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) (HyperX Upgrade Kit)

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For troubles like this try the windows site where people post similar or all problems they have with windows and eventually a solution from either an official or a user will pop up. For this one, try the following method: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-hardware/windows-7-installer-will-not-recognize-ssd/80a83aed-56dc-438c-a65e-a0ea815ce551?page=1

or if I quote technocrate:
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Does it show the SSD at all? I would check to see that it's indeed being picked up by the BIOS and if not, check the cables.
Occasionally, Windows setup can chuck a fit when it discovers a drive with an invalid MBR/boot sector and won't install to it. To fix this, you could try the following
1.Boot up Windows 7 disc.
2.When the welcome...
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For troubles like this try the windows site where people post similar or all problems they have with windows and eventually a solution from either an official or a user will pop up. For this one, try the following method: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-hardware/windows-7-installer-will-not-recognize-ssd/80a83aed-56dc-438c-a65e-a0ea815ce551?page=1

or if I quote technocrate:
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Does it show the SSD at all? I would check to see that it's indeed being picked up by the BIOS and if not, check the cables.
Occasionally, Windows setup can chuck a fit when it discovers a drive with an invalid MBR/boot sector and won't install to it. To fix this, you could try the following
1.Boot up Windows 7 disc.
2.When the welcome screen comes up on Windows Setup, press Shift + F10, which will display a command prompt.
3.Type "diskpart" (no quotes) and press enter.
4.Type "list disk" and press enter.
5.Hopefully you can see your SSD in the list. You should see a number identifying it. Now type "select disk X" (where X is the number identifying your SSD) and press enter.
6.Type "clean" and press enter. This will write a blank MBR, YOU WILL LOSE ANY DATA ON THE SSD if you did have anything on it.
Hopefully one of these tips helps :
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The most probable cause is that your SSD is not configured as bootable on the BIOS.

Also, Windows installer is crappy, and will try to install the bootloader on any random HD, so I recommend to disconnect all the drives but the SSD, then install , then connect all the drives again, and be sure that the BIOS is set to boot from the SSD.

If your SSD does not appear in the BIOS boot order menu, then you need to access another menu to include the SSD in the bootable ones.
 
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Thanks for your time and help everyone. I will try some of these solutions when I get home from work and go to battle with my PC. there is nothing worse then not be being able to play with your new toy. This should have been an easy fix but I'm banging my head against the wall now trying to get it fixed lol.. Again thanks !!
 
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Just a follow-up...

So after reading forums and trying everything I could of think of over the course of the past few days. I finally got my bios to recognize my new ssd. I was on the verge of taking it in to a shop this morning. Anyway I was reading some forums this morning and finding the problem I realized I didn't have the ssd plugged into power. DOH! Anyway after hooking it up properly my boos recognized my new ssd and I was able to install windows. Just wanted to say thanks again for helping me out, it's much appreciated.
 
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