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HDD Problems - Can't get windows to install!

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foodfightr

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I have a 150GB Raptor drive that is fairly new and in great condition. SMART is looking good. Its absolutely not a mechanical error or a physical problem because I've had this exact problem before and can't remember how I fixed it for the life of me.

The drive gets reformatted between HFS+ (MAC) and NTFS every few months. The problem is that after I'm finished using it on my Mac I can't get windows to install on the drive.

I've tried installation disks for Windows Vista 32 and 64 bit, in addition to XP Media Center. The drive only has one partition. When I get to the hard drive options of the Windows installation it will let me delete the partition, create the partition and format the drive as NTFS. Then windows says that this drive is not suitable for Windows installation.

I've tried formatting it to FAT32 using my MAC. I've tried writing zeros to the entire drive to wipe any old data that might be present. I've even used a fedora live cd to try and troubleshoot. I've tried setting my bios to AHCI and IDE. No luck.

I'm getting pretty frustrated...
 
Originally posted by: foodfightr
I have a 150GB Raptor drive that is fairly new and in great condition. SMART is looking good. Its absolutely not a mechanical error or a physical problem because I've had this exact problem before and can't remember how I fixed it for the life of me.

The drive gets reformatted between HFS+ (MAC) and NTFS every few months. The problem is that after I'm finished using it on my Mac I can't get windows to install on the drive.

I've tried installation disks for Windows Vista 32 and 64 bit, in addition to XP Media Center. The drive only has one partition. When I get to the hard drive options of the Windows installation it will let me delete the partition, create the partition and format the drive as NTFS. Then windows says that this drive is not suitable for Windows installation.

I've tried formatting it to FAT32 using my MAC. I've tried writing zeros to the entire drive to wipe any old data that might be present. I've even used a fedora live cd to try and troubleshoot. I've tried setting my bios to AHCI and IDE. No luck.

I'm getting pretty frustrated...
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I had this problem for about a good hour after setting up my RAID array, it's definitely as MerlinRML said, set the drive as bootable in the BIOS and it will work

Of course, you will want to reformat in NTFS for the umpteenth time

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Strange enough.... I unplugged it and plugged it into a different SATA port. Fixed the problem.

I was able to replicate the error and test the fix again by returning it to the original SATA port. It worked.
 
Not strange at all. Instead of changing the boot drive you moved the drive to the port that the BIOS was set to look at to find the boot drive...and it did.
 
CHeck see if you have any bad ram or do "cant install window" search you'll probably see mostly ram issue (its weird i know) that prevent u from installing window. I had this windows installing issue and after did some search and test found out it was the ram; mix match / bad ram / ect.. just a though
 
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