Installation of windows 10 does not see hard drive.

[@Stephen]

Desktop is a Dell power edge t40.

Booting using Rufus in either MBR or GPT mode.

Windows cannot see hard drive when it's time to selection where installation of windows goes.

I can boot to gparted using hirens and see the drive. It's a 1tb 3.5". I've formatted it to NTFS and FAT32.

Still does not get seen by Windows installer.

Tried with UEFI turned off and on, secure boot off or on.

Anyone encountered this before?

 

[Old_Liver]

Desktop is a Dell power edge t40.

Booting using Rufus in either MBR or GPT mode.

Windows cannot see hard drive when it's time to selection where installation of windows goes.

I can boot to gparted using hirens and see the drive. It's a 1tb 3.5". I've formatted it to NTFS and FAT32.

Still does not get seen by Windows installer.

Tried with UEFI turned off and on, secure boot off or on.

Anyone encountered this before?

Usually if it setup as RAID, you'll need to setup the RAID drivers in the Windows installation from the Load Driver option.
At least that's been my past experience.

 

[SpaceWalker]

Desktop is a Dell power edge t40.

Booting using Rufus in either MBR or GPT mode.

Windows cannot see hard drive when it's time to selection where installation of windows goes.

I can boot to gparted using hirens and see the drive. It's a 1tb 3.5". I've formatted it to NTFS and FAT32.

Still does not get seen by Windows installer.

Tried with UEFI turned off and on, secure boot off or on.

Anyone encountered this before?

Set storage to AHCI.
Make sure if your motherboard requires Hard Drive Controller drivers, as @Old_Liver said, even if it's not RAID,

 

[Phence]

I think best to reset the BIOS if you don't know who worked on it before you, then set controller to AHCI.

 

[shifttymike]

Storage looks like it's managed by Intel VROC (virtual RAID solution)
You can probably confirm this by booting into a Linux distro (gparted might work if you can easily get a shell, can't remember now) and do something like
smartctl -a /dev/sda
or
dmesg | grep sda

The vendor/product won't be Seagate Barracuda, rather the storage controller's details. With physical controllers, there's often an option to enable passthrough so you can access the disk directly. Not sure about virtual storage controllers.

I'd dump the service tag of the box into Dell support, download the drivers and load the storage-related ones. Also might be useful: Intel® Virtual RAID on CPU (Intel® VROC) and Intel® Rapid Storage Technology Enterprise (Intel® RSTe) Windows* Driver for Intel® Server Boards and Systems Based on Intel® 62X Chipset

Pretty much whenever there's some interface between the SATA device and the OS (like a storage controller), Windows poops its pants. This has caused me much pain.

 

[SwartKatZA]

Download the windows 2012 or 2016 perc driver from the dell website (you can use the service tag on dell's site to locate the correct drivers) if they do not have one available for windows 10. Extract the files using 7-zip and put them on a flash drive. When the windows setup starts click the add driver button and browse to the appropriate 64-bit folder. Once loaded the drive/s should show.

 

[solz]

Desktop is a Dell power edge t40.

Booting using Rufus in either MBR or GPT mode.

Windows cannot see hard drive when it's time to selection where installation of windows goes.

I can boot to gparted using hirens and see the drive. It's a 1tb 3.5". I've formatted it to NTFS and FAT32.

Still does not get seen by Windows installer.

Tried with UEFI turned off and on, secure boot off or on.

Anyone encountered this before?

had this with some nuc's and the only way around it was to actually setup the drive from another system or send back.
In bios all would show the drive, but once started from install media it doesn't show the drive to install to.

so would start the install on another pc and as soon as it want to reboot pull power and move drive to the pc you want to install in.

 

[Dread]

@VeximalZA You know a thing or two about the Dell PC's and laptops maybe it is some strange Dell bios setting?

 

[Phence]

Storage looks like it's managed by Intel VROC (virtual RAID solution)
You can probably confirm this by booting into a Linux distro (gparted might work if you can easily get a shell, can't remember now) and do something like
smartctl -a /dev/sda
or
dmesg | grep sda

The vendor/product won't be Seagate Barracuda, rather the storage controller's details. With physical controllers, there's often an option to enable passthrough so you can access the disk directly. Not sure about virtual storage controllers.

I'd dump the service tag of the box into Dell support, download the drivers and load the storage-related ones. Also might be useful: Intel® Virtual RAID on CPU (Intel® VROC) and Intel® Rapid Storage Technology Enterprise (Intel® RSTe) Windows* Driver for Intel® Server Boards and Systems Based on Intel® 62X Chipset

Pretty much whenever there's some interface between the SATA device and the OS (like a storage controller), Windows poops its pants. This has caused me much pain.

Yikes you are right, though this should be supported natively I assume from these out of the box supported OS's (Ubuntu 20 LTS should also work)? It's not even a real server, just a desktop that takes ECC UDIMM and Xeon which is basically Core CPUs with ECC support. What a fail Intel/Dell to do this to such an entry level product.

That's really crap if you can't disable it into AHCI. :| Another reason to go Supermicro (they don't vendor lock SFPs and fuse CPUs to motherboards on newer CPUs I believe as well).

'New Server OS support
• Windows Server 2019
• Windows Server 2016
• Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS'

p6/26

https://i.dell.com/sites/csdocuments/Product_Docs/en/poweredge_t40_tech_guide.pdf

 

[rinners]

Do the memtest86 trick