Trouble installing OS on a EVGA board

[lupi]

I'm trying to do a fresh install after buying a new harddrive and running into problems, getting an error code that states unable to load windows at the very start of the install process (something like 0x8005007 although a digit or so at the end may be off, not at the house this moment).

Just wondering if there could be a problem using this WD 2tb drive that I need to somehow load up the nvidia drivers first for this 780i series MB?

 

[nenforcer]

Lets start with what OS are you attemping to load? Vanilla Windows XP had a partition size limit of 137Gb but I don't think this is your problem.

Secondly, how are you attempting to load the OS? Some modern systems like your 780i motherboard do need drivers loaded to access a SATA DVD drive. Windows 7 should have most drivers but not all it seems.

This is why old IDE DVD drives are still pretty hassle free since they don't need SATA controllers drivers especially if you are trying to use AHCI. (780i doesn't support AHCI I don't believe)

Are you trying to load Windows 7 from a SATA DVD drive?

 

[lupi]

vista 64 from the dvd. dvd drive is ide though.

 

[nenforcer]

The hard drive must definitely be SATA then. Does Vista get past the format of the entire hard drive (NTFS - not quick)?

Vista more than likely does not have any drivers for your 780i SATA controller. Is the SATA controller set to IDE mode in the BIOS? Even without AHCI it supports NCQ but that probably requires SATA mode in the BIOS.

To get SATA mode to work you might end up having to use the floppy drivers for the 780i SATA controller.

 

[lupi]

while mine isn't SSD related, this is one of the first threads I came across that has the same problem.


http://www.overclock.net/windows/686830-error-code-0x80070057-ssd-when-installing.html


starting going through the EVGA forums, but I read that they went to new forums not too long ago, so afraid they won't be very good for this type of thing.

 

[lupi]

http://www.sevenforums.com/installa...t-partition-disk-0-error-code-0x80070057.html

here's another thread similar to what i'm going through. i tried doing a command prompt format through diskpart using the "quick" command but it immediately shot me an error message. now doing it without quick and haven't seen any problems yet. but it's going to take just short of forever at the speed it's going.

 

[nenforcer]

Was there previously an OS on the 2TB SATA drive? I always like to zero erase a hard drive before reinstalling Windows.

I have seen some strange stuff, like old recycle bins reappearing on a new windows install.

Yeah it may take several hours to format the 2TB hard drive non-quick but its worth it obviously if it works and you are problem free afterwards.

I've never owned a hard drive larger than 320GB, BTW.

 

[lupi]

nah, was just taken out of the box. last i checked it was over 60% with no hiccups yet. did d/l the WD bootable utilities and it ran fin on the quick check and i let it run about 45 minutes on the long version without any errors.

 

[lupi]

left the WD extended drive diagnostic running last night, woke up this morning to a no error message.

well, before I load up the rifle and go rampaging thought I'd try one more thing. saw one of those ms mvps in a similar situation tell someone to try loading xp first so i popped in my xp pro disk and went from a blank disk to looking at my xp desktop in under 10 minutes. so now having even more faith that the hd and connection are good, popped in vista and wouldn't ya know, damn thing finally took.

 

[nenforcer]

did you "upgrade" from XP to the Vista x64 or do a clean install of Vista?

 

[lupi]

Clean install, think the upgrade install option was grayed out anyway.