Motherboard Hard drive drivers

[slayeron444]

Hello all,

I have recently replaced a laptop hard drive in my gateway laptop. I am attempting to partition and re-install windows. Apparently, if the windows disk that I use is NOT provided by Gateway, it needs a motherboard SATA driver.
I have the correct driver I believe I need. The instructions say to hit F6 during setup to get to the third party install, which I can do.... BUT I am not able to get the laptop to see my USB drive with the driver on it. Does anyone know what I must do to the USB drive to get it to be recognized by the computer... ie. BIOS settings, bootable USB, and/or what driver files must be present where on the drive?

Thanks for your help everyone!

 

[saint19]

Hi newcomer and welcome to the Tom's hardware forum.

Do you try install windows in the new HD without load any driver?

 

[slayeron444]

Yes. Windows loads a bunch of setup files and right before it asks you if you want to partition a drive ect. It pops up saying that it can not recognize any hard drive hardware.

 

[saint19]

Ok, check in the BIOS if the HD mode is on IDE and not in AHCI or RAID mode, this could be the problem.