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Installing Win.7 PRO on an SDD drive Asus Sabretooth Z77 mobo

winr

winr

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I have a Friends PC here

He wishes me to Install Win.7 PRO on an SDD drive Asus Sabretooth Z77 mobo


Have a Kingston SDD NOW 300 installed

It gets to the screen " Where do you want to install Windows"

Shows Disk 0 Partion 2 as primary

Then " Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition"

I tried the mobo CD but could find nothing to help nor in the mobo manual

Any tips would be appreciated, first time using an SDD drive



Ricky.
 
Maybe you need the boot partition? Not where the OS resides, but the other, tiny partition, for the bootloader stuff?

Normally, with a blank drive, Windows Installer will create this little partition automatically.

Is there any data on the SSD that needs saving? If not, use DISKPART.EXE and "CLEAN" the SSD, then go back to the drive-selection screen, and REFRESH, and then create a new partition, and it should automagically create the mini-bootloader-partition too, and then install the OS into the larger remaining primary partition.
 
during the first part of installing win7, select the drive and then tell it to format it and then continue the installation.

that should setup any partitions required.
 
The bios configuration should be set to AHCI mode.
The "optimized default" setting (for Z77 boards) may be: IDE mode, so double-check that it's set to AHCI mode.
This must be done prior to installation of the operating system.
 
Sorry so late to reply, ... thanks guys 🙂

The SSD drive was bad... installed a hard drive, Win 7 loaded fine and ran great

Would not reboot after shutting down, blue screen or repair screen which did not repair

Found out one of the DDR3 sticks was acting up...... lol...


Ricky.
 
winr said:
Sorry so late to reply, ... thanks guys 🙂

The SSD drive was bad... installed a hard drive, Win 7 loaded fine and ran great

Would not reboot after shutting down, blue screen or repair screen which did not repair

Found out one of the DDR3 sticks was acting up...... lol...


Ricky.
Click to expand...

I dread multiple failures. But at least you have it all nailed down.
 
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