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USB Installation of Win7 Ultimate x64
Hello all, I'm new here. Found this forum via google, of all places ;)
I'm having a serious problem. I'll start with the specs first, and then get to the problem though.
System:
Seagate 500GB HDD
Gigabyte M68MT-S2P mobo w/ BIOS Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
USB installation of Windows 7 Ultimate x64
And now, the problem... the installation starts, and I get to the "Where do you want to install Windows?" screen, I choose my drive, which is "Disk 0 Partition 1", which displays Total Size 465.8 Free Space 465.8 Type Primary, but Windows 7 installer says: "Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition. See the Setup log files for more information."
Now, as you can see from what I said the issue it, it loads into the installation just fine. I've used a 32bit version of this and installed Win7 on several netbooks with the same issue, and in all cases, removing the USB at this point and re-inserting it was what fixed it.
The things that I have tried already are:
1. Removing the USB so that the only drive in is the HDD, but then I get the "Windows is unable to install to the selected location. Error: 0x80300001.
a. A google search, and human logic, tell me that this is because the USB drive is no longer present, so I re-insert, and choose the drive again, and get the same original error in the issue above.
2. I have installed ubuntu on the hard drive from a USB, which of course, installed fine, and ran fine. I've again reformatted the drive, since the installer was saying it was not NTFS when it had Ubuntu on it.
3. I've changed the boot order in the BIOS to various different setups, including HDD first & USB devices second; USB devices first and HDD second. The BIOS lists the USB flash drive under Hard Drives, of which I've set it to #2, and also tried it as #1.
4. I've even tried installing Win7 from another PC and would try to move the drive to the new PC if it had worked, but this gave me the same error(and this likely wouldn't have worked, anyway).
I'm at my wits end here! I don't have a DVDrom, and it's been a couple of years since I've needed one. I've ordered one from newegg, but it won't be here for a couple of days, so any help would be appreciated.
The only thing that I can say that I know that I haven't tried is another USB flash drive, but the one I'm using is the same one I used on the above mentioned netbooks, and I don't have another USB flash drive that's large enough to try to use.
Please help me if you can! and thank you in advance for even reading this, I honestly appreciate someone even looking at this.
:edit: Also, thought I should mention, the ONLY things connected right now are the HDD, the USB flash drive, a USB mouse & USB keyboard.:end edit:
Last edited by wakkedup; 29 Oct 2011 at 09:17. Reason: Details about devices that are connected via USB