Question Hard drive in laptop is not detected after battery replacement I will be trying this during the Winter break and I have time to test this method. This sounds like the best thing to try at this time. The impasse is probably what caused the kerfuffle. I figured the CD wanted to create an MBR & standard BIOS partition and the UEFI was looking for a way to create the 3 or 4 partitions it wanted. The setup always stopped at the point of sensing and partitioning the hard drive. It is one of the first editions that was released. I came to the conclusion my Win7Pro CD was not compatible with UEFI systems. SEL DIS 0 (after confirming Windows 7 target HD #)ĬREATE PARTITION PRIMARY SIZE=102400 (for 100gb partition, adjust as desired)

Did you get it fixed yet? This is what I had to do to make it work,and its working great now!Īt first installer screen Press Shift + F10 to open a Command Box, type: I had to use Diskpart after putting in the 7 disk and convert MBR so 7 would install. It could be that Windows 7 is not compatible with UEFI. I'll be putting a couple more hours in on it tonight. No issues, all were Dells but all BIOS machines, too old for UEFI. and one time I had to load it on 15 laptops at once that were donated. I can't tell you how many times the disc has been successfully used to install Win7Pro on laptops. I am also using the Win7Pro disc from our college. I will definitely double check before beating my head against the hard drive tonight. Dell website says that is what it shipped with, and I doubt they would have added more without my knowledge. Not sure since I am not in front of it at the moment.

I believe the Dell that I am working on has only 4GB installed. Maybe its the same issue you having who knows. How much RAM is installed(might not be linked to your issue) but once trying to install windows 7 on my work desktop i was forced to only use 1-4GB of RAM instead of the 8GB installed for some reason(after installation i could put the rest of my RAM back, and it was 64-bit also). Hmm that's weird i had a regular phoenix bios that i used my windows 7 pro i got from my school, then when i built a PC i installed the same dvd on my new ASUS Sabertooth 990FX(uefi bios) and had no problems.

Replacing hard drive in dell laptop