Installing Windows 7, cannot detect hard drive?

[Robstaley]

Hi guys,

I've recently wiped my hard drive and did a complete OS reinstall, and as such had to redo my Virtualbox setup.

I had no problems creating the virtual machine, until I actually booted it up and started to install Windows. It stops and gives me the message, "setup did not find any hard drives installed in your computer", and then I am forced to quit. I have my virtual drive set up and everything, I'm not sure why the machine can't seem to locate it.

Any idea what may be causing this?

[stefan.becker]

I know why there will be no help: All Details are missing.

There are several versions form macos, windows, vbox. And there is a log file with infos from starting the guest.

[mpack]

The error message means that you don't have a hard drive mounted in the VM, and contradicts what you say you've set up. I think users would notice if hard drives weren't being mounted, so I think I'm more inclined to believe the error message.

Perhaps you should post the relevant .vbox file here (that's the settings file from the VM folder): as a zipped attachment please. You might also include the VM log in the same zip. The log file is "VBox.log" from the Logs subfolder of the VM folder.

[michaln]

The error message means that you don't have a hard drive mounted in the VM, and contradicts what you say you've set up.

The OP could have been creative and used a storage controller not supported by Windows 7. Of course without any actual data, it's just a totally wild guess.

I have also seen very interesting error messages coming from truncated Win7 ISOs - you'd think Windows would detect that and tell you the installation media is corrupted, but in one case I got an error message claiming that a driver for the storage controller wasn't found. Getting a complete and uncorrupted ISO fixed that.