no signed drivers...please help

[hammerslap1]

built a new pc with a SSD in it... no matter what I do i cant get windows 7 to find the SSD in it... keep getting error no signed drivers... please help. I have grabbed all the drivers from gigabyte... made a bootable thumb drive with all the windows install files, put all the drivers on the usb drive and can browse to the drivers but they wont work... please help. i dont have much hair left to yank out.... my sister is about to just get a clone of my windows 8.1 lol

 

[dragoon20005]

question

 

did you use a USB 3.0 ports or the normal USB 2.0 ports

 

 

did you use Rufus to make the thumbdriver bootable?

[Blake]

you shouldn't need drivers for windows 7 to see a standard SATA SSD. What ssd do you have. Also let us know what motherboard you are using.

[hammerslap1]

well folks turns out after 2 weeks of ripping my hair out and cursing the very thing that I had built.... turns out.... I hadnt plugged in power to the ssd lol.... thanx for all your help