I'm getting an error when I try to install windows 7 onto my Samsung ultrabook, here's a link to the laptop:
http://esupport.sony.com/US/p/model-...owto#/howtoTab
The error reads "No drives were found. Click Load Driver to provide a mass storage driver for installation." I know this same error has come up many many times before and I've been reading countless posts on how people have found solutions to the problem, however it seems none of these solutions work for me.
Known common solutions:
1) Set hard drive to IDE if it was on SATA in the bios
2) Set to RAID in bios
3) Connect USB stick to a 2.0 port
4) Use gpart or a program of the sort to go in and delete the existing partitions, then re-run setup.
5) Find the drivers for chipset or Mass Storage drivers and use them during set up.
6) Open cmd window from repair and use diskpart
Why these don't work for me:
1) My bios doesn't even give me the option to set it to IDE. The bios itself is super simple, nothing like I've ever seen since it barley includes any options. I can however see that it recognizes my 500gb hard drive, thouch there is no way it will let me change any setting about it.
2) Again I don't even have the option in my bios
3) I'm already doing this.
4) I've delete all and tried to use unallocated space for the install, and also tried making an ntfs partition. Still the drive doesn't show.
5) the drivers i found are under the drivers tab in the link i provided about the ultrabook above. When I put them on a USB stick and try to load them in the window for loading the drivers it's asking for, it says it doesn't detect any drivers. I know these drivers i downloaded are in .exe format so i tried unzipping them but still tells me no device drivers were found on the usb stick.
6) When i go to cmd to use diskpart, and use list disk, it only shows my USB connected to the laptop i use for the installation. It doesn't show any drives.
I'M STUMPED! I've been at this for about 9 hours now with no avail, if anyone can help, it would be very greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance!
http://esupport.sony.com/US/p/model-...owto#/howtoTab
The error reads "No drives were found. Click Load Driver to provide a mass storage driver for installation." I know this same error has come up many many times before and I've been reading countless posts on how people have found solutions to the problem, however it seems none of these solutions work for me.
Known common solutions:
1) Set hard drive to IDE if it was on SATA in the bios
2) Set to RAID in bios
3) Connect USB stick to a 2.0 port
4) Use gpart or a program of the sort to go in and delete the existing partitions, then re-run setup.
5) Find the drivers for chipset or Mass Storage drivers and use them during set up.
6) Open cmd window from repair and use diskpart
Why these don't work for me:
1) My bios doesn't even give me the option to set it to IDE. The bios itself is super simple, nothing like I've ever seen since it barley includes any options. I can however see that it recognizes my 500gb hard drive, thouch there is no way it will let me change any setting about it.
2) Again I don't even have the option in my bios
3) I'm already doing this.
4) I've delete all and tried to use unallocated space for the install, and also tried making an ntfs partition. Still the drive doesn't show.
5) the drivers i found are under the drivers tab in the link i provided about the ultrabook above. When I put them on a USB stick and try to load them in the window for loading the drivers it's asking for, it says it doesn't detect any drivers. I know these drivers i downloaded are in .exe format so i tried unzipping them but still tells me no device drivers were found on the usb stick.
6) When i go to cmd to use diskpart, and use list disk, it only shows my USB connected to the laptop i use for the installation. It doesn't show any drives.
I'M STUMPED! I've been at this for about 9 hours now with no avail, if anyone can help, it would be very greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance!