New build, cannot install Windows 7 64bit

Idleman · 3 Oct 2012 at 21:35

BuToNz said:
I've just done this via diskpart and still getting the same error. Can I boot Easus from USB? :EDIT: Apparently not, any other idea's?

I have it on my UBCD, so you should be able to.

Surveyor · 3 Oct 2012 at 21:40

You've got no other drives of any type plugged in?

Disconnect anything you don't need such as memory card readers etc.

If it keeps coming back to wanting a CD/DVD driver Windows is picking something up as that even if it isn't.

BuToNz · 3 Oct 2012 at 21:47

Surveyor said:
You've got no other drives of any type plugged in?

Disconnect anything you don't need such as memory card readers etc.

If it keeps coming back to wanting a CD/DVD driver Windows is picking something up as that even if it isn't.

Nothing else just 2x Vertex 2E's 120GB. Keyboard/Mouse/USB Windows 7 and that's it! No printers/External devices. I really don't get it, seems a decent amount of people are having the issue but it's solved with a fresh copy of Windows burned. I'm just downloading a Windows 7 SP1 (My original ISO wasn't SP1) so I'll see how that goes.

Any other idea's in the mean time?

Surveyor · 3 Oct 2012 at 22:11

It really should just work.

Try again with the fresh copy of Windows and let us now how you get on.

BuToNz · 3 Oct 2012 at 22:27

Fresh copy is doing the same, tried booting it from my laptop and the setup works fine! Tried going back to IDE/AHCI mode again (deleting array) and it's still not working. Pretty fed up now, don't see why it won't work...

BuToNz · 3 Oct 2012 at 22:48

You'd never guess the issue...I guess the onboard USB 2.0's have some weird controller, plugged the USB stick into an external USB hub and it's working fine now. Say it with me...What the hell?

Cheers for your help guys

Surveyor · 3 Oct 2012 at 22:53

Glad it's sorted but it seems odd because don't you have to plug the hub into one of the onboard USBs for it to work?

mateuszd · 3 Oct 2012 at 23:15

Can you check that the USB media is accessible by the setup?
It looks that Windows can't access the setup files (had that error before).
Alternatively you could install Windows offline.
You would have to break the array and plug one SSD to your laptop then apply the Ultimate image from the install.wim to your SDD os partition, install the bootloader (I use EasyBCD for that) and make the boot partition active. Been using that method for a long time since it's faster for me.

EDIT: A bit too late :/ but looks like I was right with my first suggestion

Should have refreshed the page before replying...