Unfortunately due to the absence of SATA drivers en-masse when Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 came out, a vast majority of residential (aka consumer) motherboards fail to detect the hard drive when attempting to install these operating systems. This issue isn’t new, it’s quite common and there are various ways of dealing with it.
One method I have found effective since the first time I tried it was using nLite. This program will extract the good bits from your Windows CD (which unfortunately is the entire lot) and give you a set of dialog boxes to allow you to inject drivers into the CD installation.
You will need to ensure that you have a version of Microsoft .Net 2.0 (preferably the latest service pack for it) in order to use the software.
Essentially, you need to perform the following:
1. Obtain from either your motherboard manufacturer (e.g. A-bit, Asus) or hardware vendor (e.g. Intel, AMD) the drivers for your storage controller. For the IC7 (or IC7-G), you just need to find a version of the Storage Matrix drivers for the ICH5. Extract the contents of these drivers somewhere on your hard drive (C:\Temp\Drivers) and ensure it contains the usual .sys, txtsetup.oem and equivalent files.
2. Install nLite and configure it to capture your Windows CD. It will cache (copy) the contents of it to a local folder, so nominate a drive with space.
3. Ensure that you tick the Drivers button as well as Bootable CD
4. On the Drivers page, you will need to insert the folder where you stored your files (hint: click insert!).
5. Press Finish, and it will begin burning your new CD.
That’s all there is to it.
You can check this site out if you need a graphical walkthrough.