Windows 7 Installer not recognising SATA drive

I am trying to install Windows 7 on a Macpro.It has a 640 GB Western Digtial HD. I made the bootcamp partition and booted up the computer from installation disk. But the installer can't detect the HDD for installation. It recognises the external USB drive but can't detect the internal SATA Drive.

I have tried searching on google but can't find anything specific. Is this a known issue?



Sohrab

FCS 3, AJA Kona Lhi & Adobe PPro



"The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient history, nineteenth-century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, flower arranging, and hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later or six months, or six years down the road. But he has faith that it will happen." -- Carl Ally

Steve

I was on phone with an Apple Tech support guy this morning and he basically concluded that the RAID card installed in my Mac Pro is the problem. He said windows 7 is not compatible with the RAID card installed in my computer and that is the reason the installation setup can not detect any HD.

Do you agree?



Sohrab

FCS 3, AJA Kona Lhi & Adobe PPro



"The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient history, nineteenth-century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, flower arranging, and hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later or six months, or six years down the road. But he has faith that it will happen." -- Carl Ally

[Steve Modica] " Can you just remove the raid card? Not much point in raiding a single disk. :)"

Yes I could do that, but that would mean backing up some odd 350Gb data lying on the other partition first.

I tried downloading the RAID drivers for windows 7 and load them via USB during windows installation but alas that too did not work :( There is a workaround for this (by going into BIOS settings) but that is just for PC.

Do macs have anything similar to BIOS settings in PC?



Sohrab

FCS 3, AJA Kona Lhi & Adobe PPro



"The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient history, nineteenth-century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, flower arranging, and hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later or six months, or six years down the road. But he has faith that it will happen." -- Carl Ally

buddy thank you so much for this :)