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windows 7 x64 won't install on SSD. x86 and xp x86 and ubuntu x64 are fine.

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hans007

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I have this odd problem with windows 7.

So I have disks for both win7 x64 ultimate and x86 (burned off my msdn developer account).

I have tried more than 1 motherboard for this (actually 3) and it doesnt work on any of them. All of them are AMD 785G boards with sb710 south bridge (2 ECS ones and a biostar) of that matters. I've tried IDE or ACHI mode, IDE , SATA or usb dvd drives to install.

Anyhow my SSD is a kingston SNV425s2 64gb. It can install ubuntu x86 or x64 10.4 fine. XP 32-bit installs fine. And windows 7 ultimate x86 is fine. But with 7 x64 it will go into setup and seem to work then in "unpacking files" always gets stuck at 94-96% and eventaully if you wait long enough says you can't reach the install media or something (which is odd sinec the dvd drive is still connected).

Now on a hunch I plugged in a normal hard drive (an old SATA 40GB western digital) and x64 installed on it fine.

Anyone have any problem similar to this? It seems like theres a lot of totally random problems with win7's installer when I was googling this issue.
 
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hans007 said:
I have this odd problem with windows 7.

So I have disks for both win7 x64 ultimate and x86 (burned off my msdn developer account).

I have tried more than 1 motherboard for this (actually 3) and it doesnt work on any of them. All of them are AMD 785G boards with sb710 south bridge (2 ECS ones and a biostar) of that matters. I've tried IDE or ACHI mode, IDE , SATA or usb dvd drives to install.

Anyhow my SSD is a kingston SNV425s2 64gb. It can install ubuntu x86 or x64 10.4 fine. XP 32-bit installs fine. And windows 7 ultimate x86 is fine. But with 7 x64 it will go into setup and seem to work then in "unpacking files" always gets stuck at 94-96% and eventaully if you wait long enough says you can't reach the install media or something (which is odd sinec the dvd drive is still connected).

Now on a hunch I plugged in a normal hard drive (an old SATA 40GB western digital) and x64 installed on it fine.

Anyone have any problem similar to this? It seems like theres a lot of totally random problems with win7's installer when I was googling this issue.
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Sounds like your SSD might be messed up. Have you performed any maintenance on it before installing the OS? Have you upgraded the firmware on the SSD and your motherboard?

I have an SSD that I just installed Windows 7 64-bit on last night and it worked absolutely fine.
 
Juddog said:
Sounds like your SSD might be messed up. Have you performed any maintenance on it before installing the OS? Have you upgraded the firmware on the SSD and your motherboard?

I have an SSD that I just installed Windows 7 64-bit on last night and it worked absolutely fine.
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i havent performed maintenance on it at all. how do you even do that,i know it has trim and its supposed to just automatically do that.
 
hans007 said:
kingston snv425s2 64gb.
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Sorry for responding so late.

For maintenance I used ccleaner "drive wipe" function; it basically overwrites the entire drive with 00's. I have tested before and after and it definitely made a difference in the SSD I was testing it on; it's essentially "TRIM"ing the drive. I first read about it in the OCZ forums for their SSD lines, which had some useful tips for SSD's.

The only other thing I can think of is that maybe there is another issue that's non-related to the drive which is causing the issue; searching around I found that some people with the same error message / issues as you ended up having a bad memory stick, other people required a BIOS update, and one guy even had it where for some reason it was looking for a USB boot device in BIOS. So it's possible that there is a section of the SSD that is bad; the only way to check for that is to plug into another computer and run some rigorous tests on it.

For me, I reinstalled my entire Windows 7 using AHCI and it required drivers from the disk manufacturer before completing which included formatting the drive in question.
 
i told kingston about it, and they RMAd the drive. maybe its a known issue... since they were pretty willing to RMA it without much back and forth.
 
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