Ok, so it IS showing your HDD then. Was it always doing this or did it just start showing the HDD's partitions?
Please post either a screenshot or type out the contents of your disk selection screen please, so that we know what we're working with.
The reason you can't install to it, is because you're not using UEFI mode in BIOS.
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...disk-the/8fa72a3e-10c5-47da-a040-1e0db62af309
You'll need to reformat the drive to install Win7, as NTFS.
If you haven't backed up your data on the HDD...you'll want to do that before you format. You can do that by using a Linux LiveCD such as Ubuntu and exploring the drive through the file explorer, and backing up onto another HDD (external), or a flash drive.
Again, you might as well just go out and buy a larger flash drive or some blank DVD's and make a Win8 installer, then you can install over the top of the previous Windows install without formatting, and everything will be moved to C:\Windows.old
Please post either a screenshot or type out the contents of your disk selection screen please, so that we know what we're working with.
The reason you can't install to it, is because you're not using UEFI mode in BIOS.
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...disk-the/8fa72a3e-10c5-47da-a040-1e0db62af309
You'll need to reformat the drive to install Win7, as NTFS.
If you haven't backed up your data on the HDD...you'll want to do that before you format. You can do that by using a Linux LiveCD such as Ubuntu and exploring the drive through the file explorer, and backing up onto another HDD (external), or a flash drive.
Again, you might as well just go out and buy a larger flash drive or some blank DVD's and make a Win8 installer, then you can install over the top of the previous Windows install without formatting, and everything will be moved to C:\Windows.old
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