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On booting from the W 7 disc I get Msg “No drives found” load driver.

  • 19-08-2015 2:36pm
    #1
    mrtom
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    While reinstalling W 7 on my laptop, on booting from the W 7 disc I get Msg “No drives found” load driver. My error was that I mistakenly deleted the drives during the initial install point.
    I attch screen shots of the loop I'm in as it requests drivers that it doesn't detect from the W 7 disc and I'm unsure what my next move is. Help!!


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  • #2
    CatInABox
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,380 Mod ✭✭✭✭CatInABox


    Hmm. Sounds like you need to download the Sata drivers for your laptop onto a USB stick, and load them when requested.

    Didn't think you had to do that with Windows 7 mind, but perhaps you do with older install disks.

    You'll find the driver on the website of your laptop manufacturer. Of course, you'll need access to a working computer to do this...

    EDIT: For example, here's a website detailing it for a dell machine. Use that as a reference guide.


  • #3
    degsie
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    You probably need to download the sata/ide driver for your laptop from the manufacturer onto a usb drive and install them from there.


  • #4
    degsie
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    Another possible solution...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo7tyFFjSsA


  • #5
    mrtom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 686 ✭✭✭mrtom


    degsie wrote: »
    You probably need to download the sata/ide driver for your laptop from the manufacturer onto a usb drive and install them from there.

    Thank you, am begining to calm down now. I had downloaded all drivers prior to reinstall, the screen shot shows the list of available MSI drivers for W7 64 bit. Is the Sata driver in there, under a another folder title?

    The laptop is MSI CX640
    http://www.msi.com/support/nb/CX640.html#down-driver&Win7%2064


  • #6
    CatInABox
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,380 Mod ✭✭✭✭CatInABox


    mrtom wrote: »
    Thank you, am begining to calm down now. I had downloaded all drivers prior to reinstall, the screen shot shows the list of available MSI drivers for W7 64 bit. Is the Sata driver in there, under a another folder title?

    The laptop is MSI CX640
    http://www.msi.com/support/nb/CX640.html#down-driver&Win7%2064

    It's probably either the Intel Chipset driver, or the Intel rapid storage driver. Extract them into separate folders on the USB, and then try it again.


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  • #7
    mrtom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 686 ✭✭✭mrtom


    degsie wrote: »
    Another possible solution...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo7tyFFjSsA

    I Went the command prompt "diskpart" thu the repair option on the disc. So it now detects the HD as one partition and the install is in progress.

    The back story; "someone" installed Ubuntu as a dual boot and this caused errors when upgrading to W 10. As I dont know how to delete that, I relied on reinstall / delete Ubuntu and then ......wtf
    thanks all for quick clear and effective solutions!


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