Loading Drivers

Is your Windows 7 32bit or 64bit? This is the error you received after pressing the Load Driver link? You placed the drivers on a DVD, correct. I am wondering why the path you show lists the C: drive for a driver location.

Hello,my Windows is a 64 bit.No,I did not place the drivers on a DVD,I used an external hard drive instead.

Are you suggesting I should burn the files onto a DVD and then go from there ?

Thanks

 

Is your Windows 7 32bit or 64bit? This is the error you received after pressing the Load Driver link? You placed the drivers on a DVD, correct. I am wondering why the path you show lists the C: drive for a driver location.

Hello,my Windows is a 64 bit.No,I did not place the drivers on a DVD,I used an external hard drive instead.

Are you suggesting I should burn the files onto a DVD and then go from there ?

Thanks

 

I don't think the DVD option would work considering you are running the windows installation from a DVD. He is referring to the drivers trying to load from the C: drive considering this is usually always where your hardrive is located. D, E are usually the CD ROM, then external HD's.

No, what you did is fine. If you are allowed to browse to the driver. Go here. This is the latest driver for your intel chipset. Unzip the folder to your external drive. If you stll have a problem then place all the files in the root of the external drive, not in any folder and try again.

You want to download the f6flpy-x64.zip file

https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/25165/Intel-Rapid-Storage-Technology-Intel-RST-RAID-Driver?product=55005

Edit: I was thinking about the DVD issue. You would need to load the drive then replace the install disk. This would be more doable if you had two optical drives instead of one. The external you are using is fine.

Edited by JohnC_21, 24 June 2016 - 09:44 AM.

The load driver option is usually used if the install disk cannot detect your hard drive. If your hard drive is detected then install any necessary drivers after the install of Windows. 

 

Are you talking about this screen showing the load driver link.

 

Hello,

for whatever reason I do not get such a screen.Is their a way to obtain it ? I assume

that could be the problem.

The Second image in your post #6 shows that Window or am I mistaken. You will of course not see the drives listed. Those will appear after you select Load Driver. Make sure all your files from the intel zip file are on the root of your external drive if it does not detect a drive. It may be that your drive is connected to the Marvel controller. You would need to put those files on the external also.

Edited by JohnC_21, 26 June 2016 - 07:08 AM.

Windows works up to the Load Driver because everything is running off the DVD and RAM. It is then trying to detect your Hard Drive which it cannot find. Give me a bit. I will try to find your Mass Storage Drivers for your MB. Then it is just a matter or unzipping a file and placing the files on a USB flash drive attached to the computer before pressing the Load Drivers link.

 

Edit: Go here and download the following driver under the SATA RAID heading

 

Intel SATA Preinstall driver  

12.8.0.1016 0.43 MB 2013/11/26

(For AHCI / RAID Mode)
Note: Press F6 during Windows setup to read from floppy.

 

It is a self extracting exe file. Double click it and it will extract the contents to a folder path you specify. Open the extracted folder called 64bit (or 32bit depending on your OS)and copy all the files to a USB flash drive, not the folder with the files. Only have those files on the flash drive. Nothing else. Attach the flash drive. When you get to the screen that has the load drive link as shown in my image click it and your hard drive should now be detected. Press Next.

 

Note: Make sure your select your Windows 7 OS in the dropdown box, 32 bit or 64bit on the above page.

 

Edit: I noticed a Marvel driver also. You may want to place the files from the Marvel download on the USB too. It seems the MB has two controllers, Marvel and Intel.

 

Marvell Preinstall Driver

Note: Press F6 during Windows setup to read from floppy.
  1.2.0.1020 0.42 MB 2012/10/04

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Hello,

I was out of town for a few days and now I continue with my driver problem.I downloaded the following files

( see attached screen shot,IMG-1045 ) on an empty external hard drive.

It seems I made some progress as I got since I got ( see IMG-1045 )

Can you confirm if I am on the right way,keep in mind I am a computer newbie )

Thank you

Is the verbatim drive your external drive? If it is then do not install Windows to it. Click Load Driver and see if you get another drive shown.

Is the verbatim drive your external drive? If it is then do not install Windows to it. Click Load Driver and see if you get another drive shown.

Yes,verbatim is the external hard drive.

Clicking Load Driver shows no other drive.

What is next ??

Were the driver files on the root of the external drive? Did you also unzip the Marvel drivers to the hard drive?

If you did the above then you will need a CD disk or spare USB flash drive to create a bootable disk of Partition Wizard. Boot the disk and create a primary NTFS partition, not logical. Logical may be listed in the dropdown box. After you create the partition give make it active. See my post #7.

Boot your Windows install disk and see if it detects the hard drive. 

Edit: Make sure you are doing this to your internal hard drive and not your external. You should see you internal hard drive with unallocated disk space if  you have wiped it. Is the hard drive detected in BIOS. I would think it would be if you were able to wipe it.

Edited by JohnC_21, 28 June 2016 - 10:32 AM.