HP Pavilion dv7-6110sl HDD driver for Windows 7 SP1 X64 bit

[lunaticu]

As title says I need the driver to install Windows 7 SP1 X64 on my 

HP Pavilion dv7-6110sl.

When I'm installing it tell me that no HDD is installed or no drivers found.

[CherylG]

Intel Rapid Storage posted on your models driver page HERE Extract it with the free 7Zip and place the files on a usb flash drive.

[lunaticu]

Unfortunately NOT working. Those are ONLY for INSTALLED windows. 

[CherylG]

Intel site:

http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/highlights/chpsts/imsm

[lunaticu]

Thank you for the link. I've downloaded both Intel® Rapid Storage Technology F6 Driver Diskettes (x64 and x86) and copied them to USB.

When I'm installing and tells me there is no HDD and ask for drivers I hit browse and select the path to  iaAHCI.inf file and select it and press NEXT. It is selecting  Intel(R) Mobile Express Chipset SATA AHCI Controller (D:\10.6_f6flpy-x64\iaAHCI.inf) and searches for drives and when he finish tells me on a new tab called Load Driver that "No new devices could be found. Make sure the driver files are correct and located on the driver installation media." and the OK button.

So, as you can see, still no luck. 

Can you suggest anything else?

And thanks for your time!

[CherylG]

If you can still boot into original HP installed Windows 7,  check Device Manager for the id of the SATA controller to be sure you are selecting the correct one under iaAHCI.inf file.

If you are trying to install Windows 7 to avoid much of the bloatware from HP, the Minimized IMage Recoveryoption may suit your needs/

[lunaticu]

I can boot the original HP Windows 7 installed on my computer.  In the Device Manager it shows like this:

When I try to install the drivers for the HDD it shows me a list of all supported ID's and I've tried with all of them, but with no luck.

As for the Minimized Image Recovery, I'm not interested.

Is that possible that one could not install a clean and fresh copy of Windows in HIS Personal Computer?

Best Regards

[Xyches]

I am having the same issue with my Pavilion dv7-6143cl Has anyone found a solution?

[lunaticu]

I've downloaded a modified version of Windows (LastOS7_v5.2_x86_x64_Final-T3AM LAST7) and it worked just fine. No driver needed, no nothing. But I do not want to install that because it is modified. Can you tell me how to copy the drivers from that kit of Windows to use it with

[Xyches · Accepted solution]

My issue was that I was installing it from a usb drive using the usb 3.0 port. Windows did not see the usb 3.0 port that I was installing from so once I moved it to the usb 2.0 port it started working. I did not need any drivers.