hey all,
I have an HP G42-154CA that I'm trying to get Windows 10 Pro installed on. http://support.hp.com/ca-en/product...ies/4121912/model/4172564/document/c02105098/ I ran into an issue with the installation disc not detecting the hard drive (ie, no hard drive is listed when the screen appears to select the hard drive to install Windows on). I've tried various drivers (latest from HP and Intel website, OEM OS installation discs etc) with no luck.. at the very least, the Windows 7 driver from HP's website for that laptop should work for installing Windows 7- same results, does not detect hard drive. At this point I'm wondering if maybe it's a BIOS setting that's causing this? I don't recall changing anything in the BIOS when I last installed Windows (which was v8), but it was awhile ago, so can't be certain. Anyone know what's causing this? Any help is appreciated, thanks!
Reinstall Windows 10 (restore a clone of a Windows 10 disk image with clonezilla) The issue we're facing is that Windows 10 doesn't support the Raid Controller PERC H310. So basically, when restoring the Windows image, we can't boot on it because Windows doesn't find the drives.
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This is similar to this question, but for AMD (or general for all hardware, if such solution exists).
Windows 7 is installed with a SATA controller in AHCI mode. Afterwards, I added two more hard drives to be used as a RAID pair.
This led to the known catch-22:
How can I force Windows to install a driver, when the corresponding hardware is not present?
In my case, the driver is a simple pack of INF, SYS and CAT files.
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David BalažicDavid Balažic
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OK, as said , I solved the problem. As I did several tries, I can not be sure what steps are necessary and what not, so I'll list everything I did.
First, the situation:
Then:
Now the trick (part one):
before:
after:
The trick (part two):
(after it worked, I went to Device Manage again and set the driver for IDE controller back to the correct one: Update driver, select automatically...)
* the 1002/4392 is the PCI id of the RAID controller when set to RAID mode. It is listed in the mentioned INF file. You can also try to look it up on this web site. The most reliable info is to set the controler to RAID mode, boot some OS (Linux comes in small handy formats) and check the PCI id there. In linux the lspci command shows this info.
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Just solved this 'issue' using an alternative method. I have a Gigabyte 990-FXA-UD3 motherboard with a AMD SB950 southbridge. My motherboard has 6 SATA ports. One of the options in the bios was to set the mode of SATA port 4/5 to 'SAME as 0-3' or 'IDE mode.'
What I did was enabled RAID on ports 0-3, but set PORTS 4-5 into IDE mode. I moved my OS drive from port 0 into port 5 and booted up. Once everything booted correctly I went into device manager and had the yellow warning icon next to a SATA RAID device. I right clicked, updated drivers to ones I downloaded from gigabyte and a few seconds later the hard disks I had on ports 1 and 2 magically showed up.
Shut down again, moved C: drive from SATA port 5 to SATA port 0. Booted up it worked.
Basically I think I needed a way to force windows to properly install the RAID driver. Once it was in there, I could then boot from it.Not sure if others have the option to set port 4/5 to IDE mode, but if you do then this method will work.
mox1mox1
Have you tried going to:
Control Panel>Device Manager>Click on top item and right click>Add legacy Hardware>Next>Install the hardware that I manually select from a list (Advanced)>Storage Controllers>Next>Have Disk
Then navigate to your driver, and intall it. When you make your changes and reboot, the driver will then be there for it to automatically find for the new device.
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You can deal with this problem by using a temporary SATA controller card :
JerryJerry
For Windows 7 Pro, I installed an AHCI controller. I used Highpoint Rocket 620A and plugged my SATA OS hard drive into that.
I booted the PC, went into BIOS and changed the SATA configuration to RAID, then saved changes and rebooted. Windows 7 booted from my HighPoint in AHCI.
Once in the OS, I installed the RAID driver (it was already asking for itin by finding new hardware). It asked me to reboot instead. I shutdown, removed the card, and put theOS back onto the RAID SATA 0 port and booted the OS with no issues.
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Bryant ScheffeBryant Scheffe
You can prepare Windows for a new storage driver on next reboot using this command:
The following has been tested on Windows Server 2016, which was installed with SATA in AHCI mode. When I changed the SATA controller mode to RAID in BIOS Windows booted into a blue-screen: Inaccessible boot device
Windows 10 Install Raid Driver Download
Chipset: Intel C232 (i believe this will work with C236 too and more)The device ID of this SATA RAID controller is 2826
Solution:
1: Make a USB key, in my case I had GPT partition.
2: Copy drivers to the key. In my case is was: -iastora.cat -iaStorA.inf -iaStorA.sys
3: I create the file install.cmd with this content: rundll32.exe setupapi.dll,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 132 %~dp0iaStorA.inf
Start Windows in safe mode with a command prompt (F8 if you can make in time!).Ran install.cmd and rebooted.
Windows now booted with this RAID driver :-)
Extra info (devcon.exe):
To find Device ID, which might be needed to find the right driver (the device ID is listed in the inf file), you can use the console util devcon.exe (a tool part of the MS Windows Driver Kit package). I have a copy here.If your storage controller is connected to the computer, it will be located in the device class SCSIAdapter or HDC.
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To list all devices in those classes use these commands:
or
Example of result:
In this example the device ID is DEV_1E03 or just 1E03.If you can find 1E03 in your inf file you know you have the right driver :-)
Microsoft Raid Driver
(Credits to IBM Thinkpad team.....IBM's SATA driver packages had this install.cmd script bundled. And to my surprise it still works on Windows 10/Srv. 2016)
Amd Raid Windows 10 Install
MrCalvinMrCalvin
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