Win 7 code 5 problem

cash_13 · 18 Feb 2015 at 17:06

Hi guys, my wifes pc my old K8T 800 ( 2GB Ram ) HD has started to clunk away so am fitting it with a WD 200GB drive I had taken out of a new machine I bought complete from PC World way back in 2004 and replaced it within a week for 500GB one and this has been sitting in my drawer as a spare and never been needed..

I tried installing Windows 7 from within her Vista clunk drive thinking it would give me the option of what drive to put it on....which is doesn't..

So rather than waste it I formatted it and went to install Win 7 32 bit and it keeps coming up with Code 5 boot manager missing...

I thought all the Windows discs now are bootable ?

How can I get round this the simplest way?

Thanks in advance Lee

cash_13 · 18 Feb 2015 at 18:08

Sorry forgot to mention that I had already done that.....

There is no UEFI settings as the board is to old apparently which I read you had to go into to disable in the Security tab in the bios

cash_13 · 18 Feb 2015 at 19:17

Will try installing unbunto from scratch and hopefully install win 7 after that..

cash_13 · 18 Feb 2015 at 19:43

Well Linux Ubunto installed straight away.....tried installing win 7 from the DVD drive and keeps saying install bootable drive disc......do'oh!

Where to go next?...........anyone out there HELLO!!!!!

cash_13 · 21 Feb 2015 at 19:40

Some great ideas, will let you know how I get on.

Thanks for the help..

By the way ED209 I am using win 7 32bit Home Edition.....

cash_13 · 22 Feb 2015 at 19:24

Half way there, took the option of installing win 7 using my pc.... on the HD
Everything went fine including the dreaded updates, Firefox, Adobe, and Family tree which is all my wife uses it for apart from looking at porn obviously

One fly in the ointment I thought I was being smart and putting a Sata SSD in as the K8T has two unused Sata 1 ports as hers still uses U66 ones and then found out her PS doesn't have the 15 pin connectors only 4 pin so have had to order one which will be with us Tuesday.......

All operations ceased due to a 99p part, no way to win a war is it! Do'oh!

cash_13 · 27 Feb 2015 at 12:39

Ok so the connectors finally arrived and hooked up the Kingston V300 SSD only to find the bios can not detect it....the board has 2 Sata ports and Sata is set to use in the bios , I have even disabled and re-abled them to no avail.....

I had read as the SSD is a 3 transfer rate to alter it to 1.5 but can not find to how to alter it....it does not have any jumpers which people keep refering too.......do I alter it via software on board the SSD by pluging it in to my own PC ??

Any ideas greatfully received as always...

Lee

cash_13 · 28 Feb 2015 at 13:05

It looks like I will have to get hold of a conventional Sata HD rather than a SSD and see how we go from there.... I have a 1TB SSHD might just plug that in to see if it is reconised