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BSOD after reformatting 30 gb Kingston SSD from Ubuntu to Win 7

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VigilanteCS

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Hi everybody,

This is the first time I've had this problem and it's driving me insane. I have a Giada Cube (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16856176001) N3 that I use as an HTPC box. Its run Ubuntu 10.10 for a while, but Ubuntu 11.04 has caused nothing but headaches, so I'm trying to put windows 7 x64 on it (the atom 330 is 64 bit according to intel's site).

Basically, I get into the windows 7 setup. All the files expand fine, and the setup goes for the initial restart. After that, the windows 7 loading screen comes up, and I get a BSOD stating "Session5_Initialization_Failed", STOP: 0x00000071.

This is driving me up the wall, and I think it has something to do with the Kingston 30 gig SSD in the box. I've tried formatting and installing windows on this drive using 3 computers and all do the same thing. I know my Win 7 disc is good b/c I've used it to install windows on several computers that work fine. I've also tried disabling ACHI support in the bios because I've heard that can cause issues.

Could something have gotten messed up in the transition from linux to windows? I've just been using the Win 7 formatting options to delete all the partitions, create a new one, and format it, then install.

Any input is appreciated. Thank you!!
 
What you may need to do is put the drive back into another machine, go into disk management, right click the disk and click "convert to MBR". Once you install Linux on a disk it is formatted as a GPT disk, which windows will not install on.
 
pete1229 said:
What you may need to do is put the drive back into another machine, go into disk management, right click the disk and click "convert to MBR". Once you install Linux on a disk it is formatted as a GPT disk, which windows will not install on.
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Thanks for the tip. I've give that a try!
 
Didn't work unfortunately, I cleaned the disk and converted it to MBR. I'm honestly to the point where I want to go buy another drive. I've been messing with this for two days and getting really frustrated.
 
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