Hard drive not showing up in windows

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I am trying to fix a laptop for a friend, who autoupdated to windows 10 but reverted back. During this revert, something went wrong, leaving the computer without an os.
I tried installing windows 7 from a disk, but no partitions are shown, and in cmd the drive is not shown, despite bios noticing it is present.

My spare ssd worked and partitions showed up, and the cmd message said: "No fixed drives detected", with windows saying "no drives were found, click load drivers..."
 
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D_Know_WD
Hi there Rooster_,

So, when in the Windows setup, you wrote the following and you don't see the drive right?
- shift+F10
- diskpart [enter]
- list disk [enter]

If this is the case, then I would say that it is really strange, that the drive is not recognized at all. My suggestion would be to take it out and attach it as a secondary drive to another system. There, you can partition & format and put it back in the laptop.

Let me know how this goes,
D_Know_WD :)
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D_Know_WD

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Hi there Rooster_,

So, when in the Windows setup, you wrote the following and you don't see the drive right?
- shift+F10
- diskpart [enter]
- list disk [enter]

If this is the case, then I would say that it is really strange, that the drive is not recognized at all. My suggestion would be to take it out and attach it as a secondary drive to another system. There, you can partition & format and put it back in the laptop.

Let me know how this goes,
D_Know_WD :)
 
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