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Hi There,

Please someone, can help me here,

I had to replace the internal hard drives on my Dell Precision 670

Everything went smoothly until the windows installation,

My installation dvds win7_Ultimate or win2010 are not able to even start the installation from the internal DVD-rw drive.

Then, I decided a different approach, I use a USB pen 16Gbts (FAT32) for the windows installation, it was a success until the

Window, where I had to choose the internal hard drive for the windows installation,

For my surprise, this window does not show me my three internal hard drives. (?)

I try to find a solution, but no accomplishment,

Please, I appreciate if someone can help me.

Many thanks,

Best Regards.

Jaime L.

Clintlgm · Accepted Answer

The issue your running into is that your system is Set up in RAID mode. When you get to the part to select a volume to install too. At that point you select I have a disk or browse for a driver. you would point to a IRST driver that you downloaded from Intel In the list of IRST drivers you would want the F6flpy-x64 (Intel® VMD).zip

This one linked if for Windows 10 4 bit if you have something else look it up on the intel site.

You would download and extract the zip to your USB install media set up a folder so that you can browse to it easily. Once you click on it It will install on your new hard drive and It will show up as a volume to install too.

It is advisable to disconnect all other hard drives in your system until you complete the Clean Install, this prevents any issue from arising. Simply disconnect the SATA cable going to them. Once your Install is complete you can reconnect them without losing any data at all.

Mary G · Answer

Are the drives formatted? They will not be seen unless they have been. I'm curious how you ever installed Win 10 on this old XP model.

TPHK · Answer

It sounds like you have windows installed - but it may not be able to "see" your drive letters just yet.

Can you run the "Disk Management" tool which allows you format, partition but also change and assign driver letters.

I.e. windows might be able to see the disk drive devices and the partitions - it is just a letter has not been assigned so they don't show up in the file manager..

Clintlgm · Answer

Another option.  Boot into your BIOS and look fo the SATA settings You should see that it is set for RAID, If you can change it to AHCI you won't have to install the IRST drivers. Again before you do this disconnect your drives other than the OS drive that you intend to install your OS to.

Cinza · Answer

Many thanks. All the best.

speedstep · Answer

Due to its PCI-E 1,1 bus like the precision 490 and 690 it will install 32 bit WIN10 but newer PCI-E cards wont work so it will be horribly slow.

https://www.dell.com/downloads/ap/products/precn/brochure_670.pdf

The oldest Vista Capable XP machine that runs Windows 10 64 bit fine is the OptiPlex GX620 Tower. I say tower because the smaller units while they will also run 10 have proprietary power supplies.

GX520 any model is not recommended because they remove the PCI-E 2.1 video slot and 2 ram slots so it has less than 2 gigs total ram available to the os.

When you update a GX620 to bios A11 and Add at least a PENTIUM D 915 chip up to 960 it runs everything just fine.

https://www.dell.com/community/Desktops-General-Read-Only/DELL-OptiPlex-GX620-FAQ-Frequently-Asked-and-answered-Questions/td-p/2528727

speedstep · Answer

Highest level of F6 mass storage driver version 18.x.x.xxxx wont work on an 18 year old machine with ancient INTEL E7525 chipset.

It doesn't look like RST is supported at all its matrix storage driver.

Intel E7525
Intel 6300ESB (HR) ICH5R
Intel ICH5 (FW82801ER)

https://www.intel.com/content/dam/doc/datasheet/e7525-memory-controller-hub-datasheet.pdf

https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/29978
Version: 18.0.1.1138 (Latest) Date: 10/15/2020

PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2822&CC_0104. = "Intel(R) Chipset SATA/PCIe RST Premium Controller"
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_282A&CC_0104. = "Intel(R) Chipset SATA/PCIe RST Premium Controller"
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_A286&CC_0104. = "Intel(R) Chipset SATA/PCIe RST Premium Controller"
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_34D7&CC_0104.= "Intel(R) Chipset SATA/PCIe RST Premium Controller"
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_02D7&CC_0104. = "Intel(R) Chipset SATA/PCIe RST Premium Controller"
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_06D6&CC_0104. = "Intel(R) Chipset SATA/PCIe RST Premium Controller"
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_06D7&CC_0104.= "Intel(R) Chipset SATA/PCIe RST Premium Controller"
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_A386&CC_0104. = "Intel(R) Chipset SATA/PCIe RST Premium Controller"
PCI\VEN_8086&CC_0108.DeviceDesc = "Intel(R) NVMe Controller"

Troubleshooting Configuration of Driver Deployment, Testing and Debugging.

Highest level of F6 driver that I would expect to work for this model is 9.6.0.1014 or 10.1.0.1008

You cant point to the exe file you must extract and point to the inf and txt oem file.

OptiPlex 780 cab file would have these drivers

You download that and then use 7zip to extract the contents.

https://www.7-zip.org/download.html

https://downloads.dell.com/FOLDER01381538M/1/780-win7-A06-4FWNH.CAB

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