Cannot Install Windows 7/Vista

Dantoshou

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Hey all, i have posted a previous thread about this but nobody has given me any help for a while

Basically, flashed the bios, tried to load windows, it bluescreened, i reformatted windows and wanted to reinstall, however, i lost my windows 7 disk, so i got my old vista 32 bit disk, used that and it wouldn't allow me to install it, for details see video here :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiYKPletU3c

So after this, today i've got a friend round who has a copy of windows 7, the dvd wont even read when i try to use it as the boot device, then i tried his SSD with windows 7 installed on it ( AHCI was enabled by the way ) and it would not work either, here is a picture of the screen that i find myself at each time

http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj179/dantoshou/IMG00001-20111110-1757.jpg

So i'd like to know what i can try now, i feel like i've attempted everything.
A slightly weird thing happened also, i took the pc apart to look for the CMOS, then reconnected it all, restarted the pc and it was resetting randomly, then i removed the ram and replaced one stick, it booted normally, kept doing that until all four were back in and it worked again, and im back where i was.

So what to do?! :o
 
The original error looks windows isn't happy with how the disk is formatted as the existing partitions are in use. It needs to be installed on a primary partition.

You need to use the advanced mode, hard to see from the video but there is usually a link. Delete existing partitions on the drive and then install to a clean partition. If you need the data on the drive then you'll need to install to a clean drive. Any old drive will do.

The drive from you mates PC is unlikely to work as all the hardware drivers will be different.

The no readable DVD is a mystery, is your DVD failing, does it struggle to read other disks.

Is your friends disk bootable on another machine.

Have you downloaded an ISO for memtest 86 or similar and run that for a couple of cycles to confirm all is well.

Is the PC overclocked at all - set back to default.

Are you sure you got the correct BIOS version. Sometimes model names are similer or there may be a version 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 3.0 etc. board with variations in hardware that need a different BIOS.

How did you flash , BIOS utility, DOS, Windows ?

Have you removed the battery and cleared the CMOS reset all BIOS data.

AD
 
May/May not help

When using achi and a driver disk windows sometimes refuses to install to the drives, until you press back/cancel it should take you back to the first page of windows installation. (it shouldn't exit)

You then just click i accept, follow the prompts until your back at the hard drive selection screen, select your drive and it works.

The only other thing is if windows cant create a small boot partition it wont install either. Deleting the partitions and letting windows set the drive up again.
 
Dantoshou said:
So after this, today i've got a friend round who has a copy of windows 7, the dvd wont even read when i try to use it as the boot device, then i tried his SSD with windows 7 installed on it ( AHCI was enabled by the way ) and it would not work either, here is a picture of the screen that i find myself at each time

http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj179/dantoshou/IMG00001-20111110-1757.jpg
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Using your friends ssd with achi windows installed wont normally work either. The drivers required for achi can differer from pc to pc, depending on motherboard/chipset of the sata controller. So i wouldnt expect this to work unless both computers used the same sata controller.
 
decto said:
The original error looks windows isn't happy with how the disk is formatted as the existing partitions are in use. It needs to be installed on a primary partition.

You need to use the advanced mode, hard to see from the video but there is usually a link. Delete existing partitions on the drive and then install to a clean partition. If you need the data on the drive then you'll need to install to a clean drive. Any old drive will do.

The drive from you mates PC is unlikely to work as all the hardware drivers will be different.

The no readable DVD is a mystery, is your DVD failing, does it struggle to read other disks.

Is your friends disk bootable on another machine.

Have you downloaded an ISO for memtest 86 or similar and run that for a couple of cycles to confirm all is well.

Is the PC overclocked at all - set back to default.

Are you sure you got the correct BIOS version. Sometimes model names are similer or there may be a version 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 3.0 etc. board with variations in hardware that need a different BIOS.

How did you flash , BIOS utility, DOS, Windows ?

Have you removed the battery and cleared the CMOS reset all BIOS data.

AD
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Okay, so if i take my SSD to my friends house, and get him to format it to NTFS?! ( is that the correct format?! ) it may work with that ?

i have 3 drives and need the data on 2 of them, which is why i really don't want to delete any, but i can move the data to a different location while i attempt to reformat them.

Yes my friends SSD didn't work, but its the same make as my SSD, how would i go about getting the Hardware drivers for that SSD?!

No the DVD rewriter isn't failing, it runs that vista disk and also runs the MSI disk that came with the mobo, works fine with all disks.

Yes my friends disk works as he tested it on his own bios and was able to get to the installation screen.

Haven't got memtest yet but will try that asap thank you.

PC was set back to default when i flashed the bios, is now unoverclocked.

I got the latest bios from the MSI website, if this was a bad idea i can flash back to an older version.

I flashed using the MSI's own executable from windows itself, then the pc restarted and it had flashed succesfully.

Yes i removed the battery several times and cleared cmos with the button on the back of the pc also.

Hope this answers your questions!
 
feck199 said:
Using your friends ssd with achi windows installed wont normally work either. The drivers required for achi can differer from pc to pc, depending on motherboard/chipset of the sata controller. So i wouldnt expect this to work unless both computers used the same sata controller.
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oh okay, so if i tried IDE mode or something it could work?!
 
Try setting the boot order in the BIOS, as for the cd drive not reading the disc, mine didn't read W& either, a peculiarity of the drive it seems, try another drive.
 
topdog555 said:
I've seen this problem myself a few times
Try swapping your sata cables to other ports (CD drive on Marvel) and reboot
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oh so that would be the ports that are knackered? or just need a switch to make them reboot or something!

Shall try all tips on monday when i get home!
 
ThePengu1n said:
Try setting the boot order in the BIOS, as for the cd drive not reading the disc, mine didn't read W& either, a peculiarity of the drive it seems, try another drive.
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Its the only cd drive ive got atm, unless you mean an SSD. ill have to borrow some friends drives then!
 
Dantoshou said:
oh so that would be the ports that are knackered? or just need a switch to make them reboot or something!

Shall try all tips on monday when i get home!
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The ports are not knackered, it's just that the cd drive will be detected by the bios when in the marvel post, there might be two listed, one generic and the other by the make of the drive, try both
 
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