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windows 7 can't create/locate a system partition
i know this topic has been brought up a few times already but none of the solutions worked for me:
whenever i try to install win 7 rc1 64bit on a freshly "formatted" partition (as windows doesn't seem to fully format them prior to selecting them) i get the above error message
i am running on a GA-M55plus-S3G
2 samsung spinpoint sata hardrives and an athlon x2 64 4200+
edit: okay so what i did now was to install an older IDE hard drive and create a new partition on there
it created 2 partitions in total
one was 100MB in size and labelled as system partition the other was the rest of the disk size (it's a 200GB WD caviar) i could start installing win 7 on the larger partition without problems
it's not the best solution as i wanted to run win7 with a raid0 sata array with a new drive i am about to buy but i guess i'll have to bear for now
if anyone can find a solution to this sata problem which a lot of people seem to have i'd be very grateful :)