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Can't install Win 7 64-bit...
Hi all,
Hope it's ok to bump a fairly old thread but I am having a similar issue.
My system has an Adaptec 29160 (with the 3.10.0 BIOS) with an Atlas 15K drive that I currently boot WinXP (32 bit) from. I am trying to install Windows 7 RC 64-bit in a dual-boot configuration to another SATA drive, but it won't let me since without the 64-bit drivers it can't see the Atlas 15K drive to write the updated bootloader to.
I am really hesitant to do anything further to my partitioning to allow booting from one of the SATA drives, but the drivers posted in this thread don't seem to work for my attempts at Win 7 (I put them on a USB drive and can see that drive in setup but it won't see the drivers apparently).
Short of a massive repartitioning (my other drives are mostly in extended partitions and the like due to not planning on dual booting when I built it a few years back), is there anything else to try? (and is Vista 64-bit this problematic, or is there a chance MS will fix this by the final Win 7 release? It seems kinda weird it can't see drivers that should be built in)
Thanks!