Windows 10: Windows 10 clean install - hard drive doesn't show up before install

Arc - your fix worked! Thank you so much.

And thanks to Fafhrd too for passing on your knowledge, which i may still need...

So....i watched the video that Arc posted, managed to locate a driver for my Dell Optiplex 760 on the Dell support website - i tried a test by booting from the Win10 DVD, as i downloaded the driver from Dell on my USB stick.

When the Win10 installer showed no drive, i clicked 'Load Driver', clicked 'browse' to locate the folder on my USB stick with the downloaded drivers in, and it found the driver, it installed that - and my hard drive then appeared on the 'Where do you want to install Windows' screen, which it hadn't before. Excellent.

If anyone happens to read this one day with the same issue/Pc, this was a fix to install Windows 10 Pro 64-bit using a DVD burnt from an ISO downloaded from the Microsoft website - and installed on my Dell Optiplex 760 with 4GB RAM, an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, Dell motherboard - and the full hard drive details are a 250 GB "WDC WD2500AVVS-62L2B0 ATA Device".

And the magic driver that was able to make the Win10 installer see that hard drive was the file "iaAHCI.inf" which was from the following driver download:

Dell Support website (Serial ATA drivers):
Intel Matrix Storage Manager (OS Pre-Install) Driver View details
File Name: Intel_Matrix-Storage-Manager_A01_R235890.exe
Description: Hard-Drive (347.04 KB)
Version: 8.9.2.1002 ,A01


I will do a back up/image of my Win7 system again, and try actually going through with the Win10 installation - and then see how that goes...!

Thanks again *Smile

 

Welcome, on behalf of all of us. *Smile