Hi,
I hope someone can post a brief answer to this seemingly illogical problem. It would really help a LOT. I've already looked in all the usual places for an answer.
I've built a new system from scratch. It's done, and now as the Vista Basic 64 goes through the normal installation process, I get a message saying no hard drives are recognized, even though they show up fine in BIOS. I have both a brand new Seagate & WD sata drives.
I downloaded an .exe from the motherboard website (Gigabyte) that I'm supposed to pre-execute, and then when windows looks for hardware, I press F6. They don't provide a simple driver file for me to save on a floppy or CD that I could access during installation.
How do I run an .exe on a system that doesn't have an OS running yet?
I don't even see a way to interrupt the bootup except to go into BIOS etc.
Is there a way to run the .exe to install the driver before I install windows? Or is there a way to extract a hard disk driver from the windows installation CD?
Thank you for any help you can share. It would certainly make the world a better place.
Richard