Windows 7 Installer Not Recognizing Kingston A400 240GB SATA SSD on ASRock H170M-ITX / ac Mainboard

the Windows 7 installer can not see the SSD

Mainboard ASRock H170M-ITX / ac
SSD Kingston A400 240GB SATA
Intel Core i5-6500, 3.2GHz processor
ADATA DDR4 8GB 2133mhz memory

Freshly composed equipment. The windows 7 installer does not recognize the SSD. The BIOS sees it without a problem. Interestingly, when I try to add drivers in the initial stage of installation, then the drive is visible and I can point to the path to files on the C drive, but if I want to install the system, then the disk will not let me go. When I connect the disk to another computer as an additional one, it works. I mark what I have already tried:

- BIOS upgrade to the latest
- set to AHCI mode in the SATA BIOS
- the partition created by the DISKPART tool
- I checked on all 4 SATA slots on the motherboard
- I downloaded the "SATA AHCI Cotroller chipset" drivers from the motherboard manufacturer (only 1 of the list shows to be compatible) but any attempt to install them fails.

Uncle google and internet forums have not helped and ideas are ending. If there is someone wise who will suggest a solution, I will be very grateful.

You have the SecureBoot option in bios and it's off?

What media does the colleague of this Windows install from? USB / CD?

I will check the SecureBoot at night after work and let me know and the system is trying to install as always from USB

This with USB will not work because Windows 7 does not support USB from 100/200 series chipsets. Then the error is that it has not found the disk (which can be misleading).

Windows installer needs to be modified. There are several methods to do this. Several motherboard manufacturers made programs to integrate the appropriate drivers with the installation versions of the system. The Asus version worked best for me.

Here is the description (method # 2): https://www.asus.com/us/support/FAQ/1015837/ link below.
Link to version 1.03.06 of the tool: http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/misc/utils/ASUS_EZInstaller_V10306.zip
Link to the old version of the tool: http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/misc/utils/ASUS_EZ_Installer_v10207.zip

Of course, this will also work on non-Asus boards. A big plus of this tool - it can work using the CD with the system installation version, you can point to the ISO file instead of the CD. The result of the work can be saved as an ISO file or you can create a bootable USB drive directly.

The description on the Asus website does not work, so link to the archived version:
https://web.archive.org/web/20170107183745/http://www.asus.com:80/us/support/faq/1015837

And this is a factual answer, thanks a lot! I know where I stand In another forum, someone was so helpful that he wrote "install Win10 because Win7 is high" and yet I did not ask "what system do you recommend". If I install it, apparently it is a need. Where do these people come from? Thank you again

Not everyone has to be a fan of Windows 10
When it comes to such a modified installation, I've already checked it on several H110 and B250 motherboards (I install it from a disk pocket that emulates a USB optical drive) and it worked quite well. Let me know if you will succeed.

dt1 wrote:

This USB will not work due to the fact that Windows 7 does not support USB with 100/200 series chipsets. Then the error is that it did not find the disk (which can be misleading).

Buddy, thank you for guiding me on the trail of USB. I was murdering with the installation, convinced that the Win 7 32bit installer error when trying to install from pendriva on the new SSD is related to the disk and it helped push the USB drivers according to your suggestion.