hallelujah!!!  note to all... windows 7 requires u to format and partition your drives in order to format and partition your drives!   in short, that fixed it lol.  after all that work =(
Holy <ADMIN NOTE :Profane word removed per TOU policy> enough is enough.  This should NOT be taking me hours upon hours.   Naturally courtesy of dell and their propreitary methods... ughgh.  OK done ranting.  Someone PLEASE aid me in reckognizing what I'm missing.  Oh, and having to register just to sort this out is crazy, to add insult to injury it told me a password had to have 1 letter and 1 number and 6 characters.  mine was refused, the same pass i use for EVERYTHING which is 12 characters with 7 numbers 4 letters, and 1 symbol. love it!! Anyhow, as one probably already derived from the subject... Upon attempting to install windows 7 on a new hard drive, my drive doesnt show up.   Ive looked everywhere and tried multiple drivers to no avail.  Anyone able to point me to Windows 7 32bit SATA drivers for a dimension 4700?  Since dell doesnt give straight info on much of their hardware even.. I can assume, however not completely.. that it is a intel 915/ich6 chipset.    thats about all the info I have to go on and so far its been hours upon hours of fail. . You have no idea the amount of gratitude i'll have if someone can point me to the proper driver.  I want to return this kids PC TODAY!!
ABOUT TO LOSE MY MIND!!! Dimension 4700 unable to find SATA hard drive during 
Windows 7 installation