Fresh Install W7 SSD pains

Sandycheeks

Sandycheeks

Sandycheeks

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Having a bit of a nightmare tonight.
Bought a 120GB Sandisk X110 from here the other week on offer and only finally found time/inclination to do a fresh install tonight.

Downloaded W7 64 Pro iso and checked SHA1.
Made bootable USB (kingston Hyper X 32GB)
Disconnected HDD and connected SSD
Set bios to optimized defaults (apart from ignore cpu fan speed as wont boot)
off we go...

First problem was "setup was unable to create a new system partition"

I tried all the usual things Diskpart, List disk, select disk = 0, clean, etc...

Nothing.

Left it plugged in and reconnected my HDD and booted into windows and formatted SSD in disk management and created new volume (D).

Tried disconnecting HDD and installing again got the same "setup was unable to create..." message.

Had a look around on t'web and found people seem to be having trouble installing windows using a Kingston USB stick.

Seems totally ridiculous to me and decided as it's now 23:11 that I will save it for another day.

Hard to believe I started this faffing around at around 8pm.


What am I doing wrong ?

I have now created a bootable USB on a different drive after reading about the issues some folk had with the Kingston drives but not tried it yet - will hopefully get time over next couple of days.
 
I have that problem before as it was down to USB port cut off during setup. I move USB from front panel to the back panel and it worked this time!

If no good for u, try DVD instead!
 
re download the windows 7 ISO and give it another try. maybe a ISO issue as I had issues installing windows 7 at one point and had to get a new ISO from a different location.

where did you get your ISO from?
 
I downloaded from "get into pc" as it was the only place I could find it.
I only have the Dell version that I bought cheap from somewhere on DVD but can't find it atm.
Digital River no longer provide the iso images...do you know where else to try.
I know microsoft have them but only the retail versions AFAIK.
 
Try initialising the drive in windows but do not create a partition on it, or if in windows setup use the drive options and delete the current partition and then try. It's not the ISO, it's the SSD, I've had the same issue before and I can't remember exactly what I did to fix it but it was either what I've already stated or I attempted to install an older OS on it first then W7 was happy.
 
Yesterday I used the Microsoft Recovery tool (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-recovery) for Windows 7 to download a fresh iso, it also got me around having to download some of the 200+ updates for Windows 7, although you still need to install them.

I also used the linked tool (http://wudt.codeplex.com/) to create the usb stick.

Only hickup i had was windows update got stuck checking for updates, but that was easily fixed. All in all worked a treat now finalising my Steam downloads.
 
Further to my last post...
Unplugged everything apart from the SSD,
Plugged in USB stick (integral 16GB USB with Win 7 iso)
Everything installed fine.

Seems there was some sort of problem when trying to install from the Kingston USB stick as others have reported on numerous websites/forums...Seems odd to me!

The Iso I got was including SP 1 but I am now checking for updates.

Total time including installing the Mobo Drivers and GPU drivers and running the WIE, installing Avast etc...was 1 hr 20 mins.
 
Just noticed 156 important updates and 69 optional.
Oh well...time for a shower I guess.
Not too bothered, I'll just let it run anyway.

Edit: Been running for 2mins and up to 8% complete.
 
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