"no drive found" installing w 8.1 on SSD on Flex 2 15

Dears, I've been going crazy for 1 week, trying and trying everything to make a clean installation of Windows 8.1 64bit on an SSD I bought for my Flex 2 15. I've read thousands of pages of forums, changed 3 different SSDs, but nothing was successfull!(Crucial MX100, Crucial BX100, ADATA SP920SS) every time, during the W8.1 Setup Wizard, it displays "No hard drive found" when I have to choose in which drive to install the OS. My Lenovo Flex 2 15 came with Windows 8.1 pre-installed on a WD hard disk. Please help me.

solved this issue just......changing the SSD I bought a Samsung 840 EVO and it works correctly. Tried Crucial M550 (listed as compatible on Crucial website), Crucial MX1100, ADATA, but nothing with Samsung no issues.

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Install windows 7 to s110, no CD/DVD driver found

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That error message can also mean that there is a problem with your original Win 7 ISO or the way the USB flash drive was prepared or the copy to USB. Or perhaps a defective or incompatible USB flash drive. If it is a downloaded ISO, try the download again.
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Re: Tecra M2 - Vista cannot be installed - No drives found

When I try to install Vista I get the message - "No drives found". What can I do?
I am 68 and not very computer minded .
The fitting of hard drive and memory were fairly easy HELP!!!!!!!!!

Respect!!! You are 68 and you are still working with computers!!!
I know many older people who dont know how a computer works and would give up
Anyway. I will try to help you as good as I can
According to the error message the Vista cannot see the HDD Am I right?
Are you able to install the Windows XP OS using the Toshiba recovery CD???
In such case we could check if the HDD is not faulty.
Nevertheless you also try to access the BIOS and could check if the HDD was recognized and listed in BIOS.
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P6N DIAMOND CAN'T INSTALL VISTA NO MASS DRIVE FOUND

Trying to install Vista and no drive found to install OS. Using Sata Samsung Optical Drive and tring to install to a single Sata WD 150 Raptor. I installed Nraid dirver when prompted using USB and Vista still won't find the hard drive to install. Looking for any ideas. I can access the c: drive through DOS prompt and I formatted there but the Hard Drive is not available in the Vista install screen.
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The HDD is on SATA 1 and the DVD is on SATA 4. The odd thing all this time it was showing in BIOS and I was able to access via command prompt. I did check the BIOS again and the on chip SATA mode was IDE. I had set the BIOS using the optimized defaults until the OS is loaded. I believe the OnChip SATA mode is IDE with that default, I checked it anyway and was set to IDE.
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First post in these subject forums. I am posting the same problem in iDVD and iMovieHD which were from iLife'05, but I won't post there.
I loaded iLife'05 and also managed to get iDVD5 loaded although the packaging indicated that I needed to have a 733mhz G4 or faster processor and I have a Prismo Powerbook, 500 mhz and it was successful or maybe not.
Then I opened iDVD, I got this Error message..."The application iDVD could not be opened because the required hardware could not be found"...which makes sense as I have an external Lacie (CD-R,-RW, DVD-R,-RAM,-RW,R,+RW,R DL) burner that I bought about a year ago that my wife also uses on her G4 tower.......... and I did not have it connected. So I connected it and when I opened iDVD again and it still reads: "The application iDVD could not be opened because the required hardware could not be found." Shut down and reboot, no difference.
This probably does not have any bearing on the issue but in the System Profiler for "Disk Burning" there is a parameter "Burn Support" which is "Yes (Unsupported)", should this be "Yes (supported)"?
Question #1: Does iDVD5 only work with an Apple "superdrive" or does it work with other third party "DVD burners" ?
So I used iMovieHD from iLife'05 to create a project of an old family vacation (from an old 8mm Sony Handycam) and wanted to create a DVD, for archive reasons and to view on TV with a DVD player, but I could not do anything because of different errors now in iMovieHD.
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Question #3: How are Video DVD's from the Hollywood Studios able to make DVD's longer than 2 hours?
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Hello everyone, I would really appreciate some help!
I have a MacBook Pro and I've been trying to download Window 7 on it. Basically, I finally got a bootable flashdrive with Windows 7 on it. I have two actually. One made by Bootcamp, (Someone on youtube showed that altering info.plist on Bootcamp makes Bootcamp format ISO on USB) and one made by a Microsoft program from a different computer WITH windows 7 on it. Now, after formatting however, and after the disk partitions itself, the computer restarts and it says No Bootable Drive Found, Insert Bootable Drive and press any key, or something like that. I RESTARTED WHILE PRESSING ALT-OPTION and the only two things coming up are the Mac OS X , and the recovery. Now, the person with the video has the same model computer as mine and it worked for him, SO PLEASE Don't comment by saying it's impossible. Does someone know the problem? I'm sure the USB is bootable.

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I have the exact same problem!When i alt click there is only Recovery disk and Mac Os x.The system cant detect the usb or ?Please help us.
How do you know you have the "exact same problem"? The original poster did not tell us his model and year Macbook Pro, neither did you. So you may or may not have the same problem. If your Macbook Pro came with an internal optical drive, you must use that to install Windows. Until you know for sure that you have the "exact same problem", start your own thread and provide more details.

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Okay it is running the Apple Hardware Test Extemded Test for PowerBook version 2.0.5
Elapsed time was 54 seconds. The error code is **ERROR*CODE***ERROR*CODE**2STF/1/4; **ERROR*CODE***ERRORCODE
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Thanks -- I was afraid of that. I called AppleCare and they said the same thing. Unfortunately, this PowerBook as I think I mentioned earlier -- in case I didn't though I got it in November of 2003 and as such by now the warranty would have expired. Second, I lost my Apple serial number for the PowerBook which is bad when needing to get support from Apple on the product.
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Wifi driver not installing for windows7 64 Bit edition

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after replacing my operating system all the drivers are installed successfully except network controller & USB 3.0 host controller.
then after i tried to reinstall my driver and installed my driver.but wifi is not working
please help me my wifi driver is installed but not working.i had installed energy management then from shortcut i turn on my wifi but it is not turningon.
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please anyone suggest me wether there is any other driver for this problem....

Hi Slape84,
Welcome to Lenovo Community Forums!
I’m sorry to hear that the Wireless driver is not getting installed in your G580 laptop after re-installing OS (Operating System), I suggest you to check if the Wireless is enabled in BIOS first then try to install the drivers. Below is the steps to access BIOS and check if the Wireless is enabled or not:
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Then Click on “F10” Key and then YES to save the changes that are done in BIOS, the computer will automatically restart.
Now check installing the Wireless driver in the computer, but and while installing while installing the driver right click on the downloaded file and select “Run as administrator” option to get it installed without any error.
NOTE: Please click on "Select Product" then in "QUICK PATH" enter the model no. as G580 select the exact model.
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No Hard Drive Found

My iMac decided to stop working after 2 years. I would only get a white screen when powering on. I tried reinstalling the install disk. When asked what drive to install on, no destination drive found. I installed a new hard drive as all indications pointed to a failed hard drive. Still no destination drive found. Does anyone have any idea what the problem might be, or should I just throw this in the circular file.

Sounds like you either have a bad SATA cable, maybe a bad SATA power cable to the HDD, or the logic board's SATA port has crapped out.
The first option is pretty cheap. Just buy a long SATA cable with a right angle connector, and string the new one. If that doesn't fix the problem, the next possibility means replacing some of the PSU cables, maybe even the PSU itself. Not terribly expensive, but extremely annoying, and much harder to find those cables compared to a long SATA cable. If it's the final possibility, part the thing out on eBay or something.
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Exit Code: 7 Please see specific errors and warnings below for troubleshooting.For example, ERROR: DW030, DW050 ... -------------------------------------- Summary -------------------------------------- - 0 fatal error(s), 2 error(s), 0 warning(s) ----------- Payload: {C3BC3DF1-83AB-4808-A672-474E15340D4B} Adobe Drive 4 4.0.0.0 ----------- ERROR: DW030: Custom Action for payload {C3BC3DF1-83AB-4808-A672-474E15340D4B} Adobe Drive 4 4.0.0.0 returned error. Failing this payload. ERROR: DW050: The following payload errors were found during install: ERROR: DW050: - Adobe Drive 4: Install failed -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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I would recommend though reviewing your installation logs prior to beginning the troubleshooting process. They likely contain additional information which can be utilized to determine the root cause of your difficulties. You can find directions on how to review your install logs at Troubleshoot with install logs | CS5, CS5.5, CS6 - http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/troubleshoot-install-logs-cs5-cs5.html.

Adobe Drive 4 install errors

Is any of this actionable? What should I try next?
Exit Code: 7
Please see specific errors and warnings below for troubleshooting. For example, ERROR: DW030, DW050 ...
-------------------------------------- Summary --------------------------------------
- 0 fatal error(s), 2 error(s), 0 warning(s)
----------- Payload: {C3BC3DF1-83AB-4808-A672-474E15340D4B} Adobe Drive 4 4.0.0.0 -----------
ERROR: DW030: Custom Action for payload {C3BC3DF1-83AB-4808-A672-474E15340D4B} Adobe Drive 4 4.0.0.0 returned error. Failing this payload.
ERROR: DW050: The following payload errors were found during install:
ERROR: DW050: - Adobe Drive 4: Install failed

What Adobe product are you trying to install which includes Adobe Drive? Have you run the Adobe Support Advisor - http://www.adobe.com/support/loganalyzer/ to review your complete installation logs?

Adobe Drive 4 install failed

Hi,
I tried installing Adobe Drive 4 on a few machines, but all got same errors:
----------- Payload: {8FD3F709-5124-400D-9AB5-A3B58C1AB8DB} Adobe Drive 4 x64 4.0.0.0 -----------
ERROR: DW030: Custom Action for payload {8FD3F709-5124-400D-9AB5-A3B58C1AB8DB} Adobe Drive 4 x64 4.0.0.0 returned error. Failing this payload.
----------- Payload: {C3BC3DF1-83AB-4808-A672-474E15340D4B} Adobe Drive 4 4.0.0.0 -----------
ERROR: DW030: Custom Action for payload {C3BC3DF1-83AB-4808-A672-474E15340D4B} Adobe Drive 4 4.0.0.0 returned error. Failing this payload.
ERROR: DW050: The following payload errors were found during install:
ERROR: DW050: - Adobe Drive 4 x64: Install failed
ERROR: DW050: - Adobe Drive 4: Install failed
What could be wrong with my installation?
Thanks.

I have the same issue:
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ERROR: DW030: Custom Action for payload Adobe Drive 4 x64 4.0.0.0 {8FD3F709-5124-400D-9AB5-A3B58C1AB8DB} returned error. Failing this payload.
----------- Payload: Adobe Drive 4 4.0.0.0 {C3BC3DF1-83AB-4808-A672-474E15340D4B} -----------
ERROR: DW030: Custom Action for payload Adobe Drive 4 4.0.0.0 {C3BC3DF1-83AB-4808-A672-474E15340D4B} returned error. Failing this payload.
I've a test version of photoshop installed. Is installation of full version necessary to install Adobe Drive 4?

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