I built my PC 2 years ago and I decided to upgrade to a 1TB SSD. I have put the ISO on a flash drive correctly, but the installer will not recognize it. I have read that I may need to update drivers for my motherboard, which is a gigabyte ga a75m ud2h. What drivers would I need to put on a flash drive? If that's not the problem, what could it be? Thanks
Windows 10 Installer won't recognize my hard drive
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daswilhelm
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you have to enter the bios to check if it sees your new hard disk.
when you first boot up the machine (it might happen so fast that you cant see the prompt), you have to hit either "f2" or "del" (usually) to enter the bios.
once you are there, you need to check to see what drives your bios is recognizing.
when you first boot up the machine (it might happen so fast that you cant see the prompt), you have to hit either "f2" or "del" (usually) to enter the bios.
once you are there, you need to check to see what drives your bios is recognizing.
daswilhelm
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you are getting close, but the boot order is just telling you what it will boot from, not what drives are actually present.
keep poking around and you should see a page that tells you what drives are being recognized. sorry i cant give you direct instructions on where that page is, but i dont know your bios specifically.
keep poking around and you should see a page that tells you what drives are being recognized. sorry i cant give you direct instructions on where that page is, but i dont know your bios specifically.
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ok, well step by step. drivers are secondary to bios, if the bios doesnt see it, windows installer wont either.
find the page in the bios where it shows connected drives and report back what it shows. best of luck.
find the page in the bios where it shows connected drives and report back what it shows. best of luck.
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I've had that problem lately myself. Maybe it's just me but it seems MSFT has made installing an OS as arcane as possible. It seems a new install will not see any LAN drivers for your motherboard which need to be installed to complete the install. At least that's been my experience on both HDD's and SSD's and ASrock motherboards.
Get a thumb drive, download the LAN drivers for your particular motherboard from the manufacturer and after the initial OS loading from the CD or ISO from the thumb drive install the LAN driver ONLY when it says load drivers when you are in the screen which shows your current installation drive.
Get a thumb drive, download the LAN drivers for your particular motherboard from the manufacturer and after the initial OS loading from the CD or ISO from the thumb drive install the LAN driver ONLY when it says load drivers when you are in the screen which shows your current installation drive.
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you connected to drive to your motherboard using a sata cable? (and power cable?)
what is the sata port labeled that you are connecting to?
what is the sata port labeled that you are connecting to?
daswilhelm
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if its not recognized, i would try to connect it to another sata port and see if that changes anything.
if not, could be a bad sata cable, or a bad hard drive.
if not, could be a bad sata cable, or a bad hard drive.
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