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New PC will not see any SATA HDD?

I bought a new GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8... and the PC will boot to BIOS then say missing OS. The message will lead to it saying boot using xpress2 (mobo disc) which installed shows an error of "drive beyond the 2tb+ capacity or drive not to be found or all primary partitions in use." I tried my 750 gb working hdd from "old pc" with win 7, my 2 tb logical drive, my 250 gb old laptop drive win 7, and my 1 tb external drive (removed from chassis). My computer allows for hot swapping of 6 drives, and i have tried the top two hdd slots, but none of them work. My mobo DOES see my dvd drive and my blue ray drive which are both SATA (like HDDs). What is the issue?

Update:

My motherboard is not detecting any HDD (I put in Win 7 disc as first answer stated to do) and it said no HDD found. Oddly enough I can boot my external drive to the windows orbs (which form the Window's... Window) the computer then blue screens and shut off too fast to read anything.

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  • 9 years ago
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    Okay, so you take out the Motherboard drivers disc, then insert the windows 7 installation disc, and in your bios set your dvd drive as the 1st boot device, then restart, then when it says"press any key to boot from disc" then you press "a" "n" "y"(kidding) then it will load the disc, then it will see the "missing HDD's" which you then format and install windows upon.

    BANG!

    All done!

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