I've got several 250 GB Seagate drives that used to be in my HTPC RAID.
They've been replaced by 1 TB drives so now I'm looking to use them
elsewhere.
I am trying to install Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit which I just purchased on
one of those drives. The drive detects perfectly fine in BIOS, has no
Hello Brian,
You might want to check to see if there is no bad sectors between LBA 0 and
2048 on the drive. If the computer can detect the hard drive, but the OS
install cannot this is usually what he problem is.
Regards
Tim Lider
Sr. Data Recovery Specialist
Advanced Data Solutions, LLC
Thanks Tim - what's the easiest way to do this? Would Spinrite detect this
sort of problem?
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On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Tim
Brian,
Did you reformat (erase) these 250GB drives before you put them in storage?
Or, do you mean you can not even get W7 to reformat these drives?
That would be a pisser!
As they were p/o a raid array, W7 may be seeing some special formatting
in the initial sectors (by the raid controller)
I did not reformat them. I guess I should start there.
I found one of the 250GB drives that worked, so I'm guessing it is probably
an error along the lines of what Tim suggested. Once I'm done with the
re-install, I'm going to get one of those cool SATA docks and go through and
check and wipe
I had something similar happen to me once with a drive I had been using for
Linux installs, dual booting or some such.
If I remember right, I had to use a Win PE or Linux disk to delete the
partitions and reformat the thing, then the Windows installer could see it..
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JRS
I have a Win7 RC1 and Vista 64 bit Home premium dual boot PC. The
hard drive is partitioned with two primary partitions, Win7 is the
first primary and is the active drive, and Vista is on the second
primary. The rest of the drive consists of an extended partition with
two logical drives.
What version of Acronis TI did you use? Thanks
Rick Glazier
From: Winterlight
Actually, the first thing I tried was to recover my one week old
Acronis backup. I recovered both the Win 7 and Vista partitions as
well as theMBR, but surprisingly, Vista still will not boot? This
must have
I tried to put the RTM of Win7 on an old drive that
once had a working (bootable) WinME on it.
(Single drive, standard PATA configuration.)
There was something about the mix of old and new bootloaders
that caused me all sorts of trouble.
IIRC it would still try to boot Win-ME, but could not...
I
I used v2009 from within vista and it worked fine on restoring Win7
At 11:28 AM 12/1/2009, you wrote:
What version of Acronis TI did you use? Thanks
Rick Glazier
From: Winterlight
Actually, the first thing I tried was to recover my one week old
Acronis backup. I recovered both the Win 7 and
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