• Hard drive cannot find partition to install windows.
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Hey everyone, so to quickly summarize what is wrong: I tried to reformat my hard drive (500gb) Western Digital which at the time was running XP and I'm trying to put 7 or XP back onto it, whichever will install first. Okay, so I sit through two Windows XP installations, when it reboots it gives me a MSDOS error : "Disk Read Error Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete to Restart". So, I try to install Windows 7... and now apparently my hard drive has no working partition... how do I recover a partition or format a new one? Basically when I try to choose which partition I want to install 7 on, NONE show up at all, I'm at a loss. Please help! Thanks everyone
What is the SATA mode set to in the BIOS? Did you change it?
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