As mentioned, using diskpart. You can download the free version on a working computer and connect your SSD to it as a second drive. This software also allows you to create a bootable media so you can use it on a computer that has no Windows system installed yet. If you want to clone hard drive to SSD instead of fresh install, this software can be of use too.
You can just follow these steps to fix it based on your own situation. Situation 1. In the first place, my HDD was partitionned in two "virtual drive" : in the first virtual drive there were several partitions : EFI partition, Recovery Partition,and C partition in NTFS ; in the second virtual drive there was one partition in ntfs planned to data.
Thanks in advance for your help. If you have the Drivers cd Resourse Cd you could follow the following steps: 1.
Proceed with OSRI 4. Hi, thanks but I have not the driver cd! It's my problem since beginning. Do you know where I can find the real file of drivers? Thanks in advance Julie. The method that "other" person mentioned will NOT work - they obviously do not understand. Post Reply. Top Contributor. Dell Support Resources.
Latest Solutions. Can't find what you're looking for? You can post your question in our community. Sign up now. Both installing and reinstalling require an installation disc which could be CD, DVD, or USB flash drive, and operations are nearly the same, approximately including these steps: boot from installation disc, choose language and other preferences, accept license terms, choose installation type, and mark a place to install Windows.
Then Windows will be installed automatically. Of course, if you are using system built-in functions, like Windows 8's "Remove everything and reinstall Windows", and Windows 10's "Reset this PC", to reinstall system, operations might be a little bit different. Nevertheless, during Windows installation or reinstallation, users may encounter the situation where Hard Disk is Not Detected in the "Where do you want to install Windows" screen even if the disk has been connected with motherboard.
Sometimes there is no error message showing up:. Error 2. No drives were found. Click Load Driver to provide a mass storage driver for installation. Definitely, if there is no hard disk for users to select on this screen, they will fail to install or reinstall Windows. And if they want to continue to install, making the hard disk detected is badly needed.
Next, we are going to introduce 6 solutions for this issue, and maybe one of them can make your hard disk visible. Find the top solutions to continue Windows installation. If there is no error message shown, we suggest trying this method at first. Of course, even if error messages are given, you can also try this solution prior to doing any operation. Please start the computer, press a specified key for several times to enter BIOS, and then look for your hard drive.
If it is missing or invisible from BIOS shown as None or Not detected , here are 4 possible reasons as well as countermeasures:. After you are doing these attempts, the hard disk might be detected by BIOS, and then you can go on installing Windows. But if the disk is still invisible, you may need to contact your hard disk manufacturer for help.
At this time, you need to try the following solutions. I want to Intsall Windows 7 pro 64 bits because for me it's better. Please help me to solve this problem. Best reagrds. Go to Solution. It is, but you'll need a customized image to install Windows 7 on this system, due to the fact that MIcrosoft removed the ability to install 7 from flash media on Skylake systems -- there is no native support by pre-built Windows 7 media on Skylake USB 3 chipsets.
You can get a customized image for your system below -- note, however, that the recently released Kaby Lake platform does not support anything older than Windows 10 so yours is the very last hardware platform that will support Windows 7.
Also note that you will lose some battery runtime if you install WIndows 7, as that OS does not support all the power management features of the Skylake platform. If it's the Windows 10 interface you don't like, you can easily install a free copy of Classic Shell that will restore a Windows 7 interface to Windows 10 if you so desire.
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