My old hard drive was a sata drive but it failed so I had an old ide 80gb barracuda 7200rpm drive that I wanted to install windows on but when I load the windows installation and goto custom it wont show my drive. My bios detects it its just windows . I tried using diskpart and even formating the drive to ntfs witha complete whip but still no luck .
Windows installation can't detect my ide hard drive?
- Thread starter killfront
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Thank you for replying I made sure the drive jumper was set to master. My motherboard has 2 sata ports,two ide ports and a separate port for disk drives. My motherboard is a http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xXgcNHyExiM/UALlVHQPY5I/AAAAAAAAATg/SR-B_x85aFw/s1600/ASUS P5LD2-SE BIOS 1301.jpg so you can get an idea of what I mean I have tried almost everything I can think of to get this to work.I am able to get ubuntu 12.04 to run on the drive its just windows that wont install
I have ubuntu 12.04 on it right now so when I were to goto the do the install it should show up but its not I even tried this with another hard drive I have thats an 80 gb drive and it wont show up either only ubuntu will detect it I even took my hard drive and formatted it to ntfs and still nothing like I said I literally tried everything
I set the bios to boot from my cd/dvd drive first then my hard drive.when I load the windows cd it get to were it asks me if I wanna upgrade or do a custom install so I click custom and it doesn't show any hard drive to create a partition on I use diskpart to try and format it but diskpart only shows my cd/dvd drive. I figured out what you meant by cable select and put my hard drives jumper to cable to select and that still did nothing.I am trying to install windows 7 ultimate 32-bit
Here are a few pictures I took of my bios
The first one here is the Main part of my bios its only detecting my cd/dvd drive
http://I.imgur.com/TtV8oEh.jpg
The second is my boot device priority and it shows my drive there
http://I.imgur.com/IxlCRZm.jpg
This last one is the configuration of the primary ide master
http://I.imgur.com/Cq3xKut.jpg
The first one here is the Main part of my bios its only detecting my cd/dvd drive
http://I.imgur.com/TtV8oEh.jpg
The second is my boot device priority and it shows my drive there
http://I.imgur.com/IxlCRZm.jpg
This last one is the configuration of the primary ide master
http://I.imgur.com/Cq3xKut.jpg
Is it possible the drive could be locked so I cant install windows again but it will allow ubuntu idk I just cant think of anything else that will fix my drive. Im just stumped ubuntu tells me there is only one bad sector on the drive so idk im done trying for now. Im sapposta have a 320 gb sata drive coming soon if not im gunna go buy a 1 tb drive. But thank you mailpup for your time I really appreciate all the time you spent helping me
Ubuntu must be less sensitive to imperfect hard drives than Windows. This bad sector must be the reason Windows won't install. You don't really want to use a hard drive with a bad sector. It will probably get worse later.
If you have access to another computer, perhaps you can put the hard drive in it and run check disk to try to fix it.
If you have access to another computer, perhaps you can put the hard drive in it and run check disk to try to fix it.
I think mainly your problem is that there is no ide driver that came with your windows 7 setup try having a look online for some and put them on a usb drive and then when you get to the part after where it says custom click load driver and select the file you put on your flash drive earlier hope I helped 
