The problem was that Win7 install would start from my CD drive but after I had clicked the Start Install button a window would come up saying
"A required CD/DVD device driver is missing. If you have a driver floppy disk, CD, DVDm or USB flash drive, please insert it now. Note. If the windows installation media is in the drive, you can safely remove it for this step."
I now believe that the wording used by MS on this warning is bad and that the drivers needed are NOT the CD/DVD drivers at all but the RAID CONTROLLER and THE SATA ATA CONTROLLER drivers.
How you get those drivers on the iso image and CD was a problem to far for me as it basically is called a crap job by Microsoft and its not a bad burn.
This was pain in the Axxs and took me days to resolve even replacing my perfectly good ATA optical CD drive for a new SATA (unnecessarily).
I finaly resovled this install problem by using a very neat MS tool called
Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool
Make sure you have a large USB (4Gb min) stick plugged in to a computer.
Open the tool and search for the iso file you downloaded from MS. (If you have an actual MS Win7 install disk from the shop create a iso file from this).
Just follow the next steps and you will have your bootable Win7 USB drive.
What to do next.
On the P8P67 the only motherboard ports that worked correctly with this boot stick was the USB2 ports 3 & 4 (4th block down). Page 2.46 iin the manual.
1) Place your bootable USB stick in the port and boot to the Bios screen
2) At the bottom of the screen click on the Boot Menu (F8) button
3) In the pop up window select the boot USB shown
Win7 will now install all the way.
Personally considering the cost, Microsoft obviously doesnt give a Sh
.
NOTE: If you are going to use RAID set this in the Bios before you load up Win7.
NOTE: Not all the eight SATA slots on the MB support CD drives.
NOTE: SSD drives are still bootable from SATA6g E! and E2 (navy blue)
Other problems I had that lots of folk also seam to have.
Cannot install updates from Windows Update.
In my case this was caused by a bad RAM module. As the install progressed the files would be written to the SSD but interrupts in the memory screwed up some DLLs and others. Even though windows started up fine and some updates did go though it was the 193 faulty files that stopped it working. This issue alone took me 4 days to resolve. The moral is Always use a mem tester.
Took out the bad RAM and reinstalled Win7.
My Spec Below
600 W Enermax EPG600AWT PRO 87+, 80 PLUS Gold Power Supply
ASUS P8P67 Deluxe MB,
Intel-Core i7-2600 3 and 16GB of 1600 Skill RAM,
ASUS ATI Radeon 6950 2GB PCI Graphics card,
ASUS Xonar D2X PCI-E Soundcard,
DeLOCK PCI Express controller card 2x SATA - 1x IDE,
StarTech 2 Port SATA 6 Gbps PCI Express SATA Controller Card,
StarTech PCI to PCI Express Adapter Card.
Noctua-Dual Radiator and Fan CPU Cooler,
DRIVES
2 = Intel X25-M 80GB 2.5-inch SATA II Internal MLC Solid State Drive - OS - Raid 1
2 = Western Digital VelociRaptor 600GB 3.5 SATA To store the Program Files and my Work Files Raid 5
4 = Seagate Barracuda 500GB 3.5 SATA 6GB To store Family video and pictures Raid 5
2 = 2TB Seagate ST32000641AS Barracuda XT, SATA To store all Media Films, TV ect, - could be Raid 5
All drives are in Quick remove Raid cradles. All this is bundled in a large tower I had lying around.
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