Help needed with a build

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Im just setting up a new computer for my sister.

The computer has one IDE DVD drive and a SATA hard disk.

The bios can see both devices.

When I try to boot from Win 7 DVD, it starts and then tells me that a required device is in accesable.

In the bios, the hdd is the slave and the dvd is the master, dont think that makes a difference.

And like I said the hdd is sata and the dvd is ide.

Any ideas? :confused:
 
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Hdd Win 7 issue

I created thread here

Now I can add to it, that using a linux live cd, I can see and access the hard drive.

However using the win 7 disk, it is refusing to install on that hard disk?

Any ideas?

The original error was this: 0xc000000e

Required device is inaccesable.

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After accessing it in Linux, I formated the disk to Fat 32.

However now when I try and boot from disk I get a message saying No bootmgr found... :confused:
 
rpstewart said:
You're definitely booting from the DVD?
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Yep.

Its quite bizzare.

I havent solved the problem yet.

Its as if, the drive needs to be pre formated for windows 7 to boot.

I cant even boot from the dvd, it says a drive is inaccessable.

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I guess I could try booting from USB... but this is bizzare cant see what the problem is.

I set the dvd as the first start up device, also tried F12, same thing.
 
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wazza300 said:
what ports are you connecting the hdd to? and is it the mb/ssd in your sig?
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No its one of my older computers.

Basically the dvd is a ide pluged in to a ide port ad the hdd is a sata, pluged in to one of the sata ports (i'v tried different ones).

Both devices are visible in the bios.

But Win 7 is refusing to start from the disk, its saying the device (which I guess is the hdd) is inaccessable.

Yet, when I boot using linux live disk, i can browse the disk and see the data on there.

Im just going to go and buy a new hdd and dvd writer tomorrow...
 
do you know if the hdd was part of a raid array? if so it wont let you access it untill you delete the array,if you had a spare pc you could try formatting the hdd,i cant think what else it could be
 
wazza300 said:
do you know if the hdd was part of a raid array? if so it wont let you access it untill you delete the array,if you had a spare pc you could try formatting the hdd,i cant think what else it could be
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No it wasnt part of an array.

The problem is tho that I cant get as far as booting from the DVD, as it used to say, device is inaccesable and now (after formating it to fat32 under linux) bootmgr is missing.....

For it to see the bootmgr is missing, means it can access the hdd?

So maybe the issue is the dvd rom? But then I tried a second and the same thing...

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The first screen shoot is the original error I got.

It doesnt make sense...
 
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idk,try turning off floppy drives and drive a in the bios,i know that caused win7 problems for some folks,seems strange problem though esp if bios sees both drives ect
 
What's the BIOS boot order set to? A missing bootmgr error suggests that the system is trying to boot from the formatted HDD rather than the DVD.
 
rpstewart said:
What's the BIOS boot order set to? A missing bootmgr error suggests that the system is trying to boot from the formatted HDD rather than the DVD.
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I changed the boot order. It is set to boot from CD/DVD first then hdd.

I also tried F12 to manually select DVD drive.

I think it might be the DVD drive thats the problem.... becuase when I F12 to boot from disk it starts to read it and then stops.

However, if that ws the case I wouldnt be able to boot from the Linux live cd.

Im pretty stumped. It something very simple, but it is not working as inteneded. I tried two seperate Win7 disks. Same thing.

The drive was in my previous computer so I know it works. I just cant get windows to load from the disk so I can format and install to the hdd.

The only difference is that there is an ide dvd writer this time, rather than sata.

Im just going to go and get 2 sata devices tonight. That should sort the issue.
 
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The drive I was trying to install too, was installed as a separate drive in Win7.

I tried on another computer to remove one of the drives installed as a separate volume, but leaving the disk with the windows partition on it, the machine refused to boot.


So there is something going on there. I bought a new hdd and all is well.
 
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