Win 7 code 5 problem

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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
 
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if you go in to the bios is the HDD still the first boot option?

if so change the first boot option to the CD\DVD drive not the HDD and then re start the PC, it should then try to boot from the windows 7 CD\DVD and start to load the windows 7 installer. once its rebooted (it will do this automatically) change it back to load from the HDD and it should continue the windows 7 install
 
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
 
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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!!!!!
 
Tried installing from a usb drive? You can use rufus to make a bootable drive with the win7 iso on it.
Found this on the web;-

'I have a MSI K8T-Neo Mainboard (for AMD64) with via K8T800 chipset and it works properly.
It is important to enable these three things: USB in general (which is usually the case), "boot from other devices" and "USB Legacy Support" for "all Devices". Then we can press F11 during the bootup, which pops up the table to select the prefered boot device. There we can select the USB Memory Stick.'

Good luck mate.
 
The problem is that this old board will only support booting cold from a cd, not a dvd as there's no native driver.

Other option is to clone the original hard drive with your vista install to the new hard drive using Macrium Reflect, swap the hard drives and reboot, insert dvd and start a clean install of win7 from within the Vista environment as the dvd driver would then be loaded.
 
Take the harddrive out, put it in yours, install win7.

Put hard drive back in wife's, install drivers as needed.
 
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 said:
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.....
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if you need a copy of the iso I can try and upload one for you as I have all the English ones from the w7 forum before the links stopped working
 
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:D

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! :(
 
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
 
This feels slightly Jurassic Park (the KT800 chipset is 11-12 years old), but I like a challenge. In general my approach for such resurrection projects normally involve the latest bios for the board and either a slip-streamed iso with the appropriate chip set drivers included or a suitable way of getting them onto something the installer can access. After that it should be straight forward. SATA 1 and an SSD is all kinds of wrong, you've got no AHCI/NCQ/TRIM support for starters.
 
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
 
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