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I just built a new pc but my HDD isn't being recognized when i'm trying to install windows 7 professional 64 bit. I have a 500gb WD HDD and a Gigabyte z68MA-D2H-B3 Motherboard, the HDD is plugged into the board with a SATA cable. Any idea on why its not being recognized?

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Motherboard Master
Windows 7 Expert

I assume that both the SATA cable and SATA power cable are connected.

Use the blue SATA Port for the HDD:

| B/Blank | B/HDD | W/Blank | .... CPU
| B/Blank | B/DVD | W/Blank |

The HDD is recognized by the Bios....Its a brand new WD HDD... When i try to install windows 7 the HDD isn't being recognized. I'm thinking its Windows 7, any thoughts on how to fix this.
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This is what i did..... I took a laptop hdd and placed it into my desktop. I booted my desktop with the laptop hdd. I then placed the WD HDD ( the one that i've been having trouble with) as a second hard drive. I noticed that windows recognized the WD HDD and could write to it. I also reformatted the WD HDD. I then tried to run the windows installation from my laptop hdd so i could install it on my WD HDD and once again it didn't recognize it. I thought maybe i could clone my laptop HDD to my WD HDD and Acronis "clone software" couldn't recognize the WD HDD as well. This is frustrating...... Why can i write to the WD HDD but cant install the OS.

Your not explaining what your trying to do....you booted a desktop with your laptop hd?? Why? Why are you cloning the drive?

So you can write to the drive but it's not recognized....what are you writing to the drive?
Motherboard Master
Windows 7 Expert

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Simply install the DVD + HDD as I posted above. I can certainly understand when a DVD fails (failure happens often enough), but not when a 'Correct' USB install is used as I also linked above. I very rarely use the DVD to install an OS, and you MUST use the native USB 2.0 ports -- USB 3.0 will NOT work.

hmims said:
figured it out.....the hdd is broken..... ran some tests on it to see if it could write zeros and it i got a bunch of errors.



If the HDD is brand new, then why you are going to fix HDD errors? Simply get a replacement.
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