Installing Windows 7 on a SSD, 2 different behaviours

Keilnoth · 24 Mar 2013

Hello all,

Small question here, if you don't mind.

I am currently trying to install Windows 7 on a new SSD harddrive. I already have a Windows 7 installer on an IDE drive but I want to create a new system drive on the SSD. My SSD is in a RAID layer that account 2 other drives linked in RAID1 but the SSD is not a RAID drive itself.

When starting the installation from the DVD, booting on the DVD, I have many errors like I/O errors and files not found errors (0xc00000e9, 0x800703EE, 0x80070003). But if I start the installation from my already installed Windows 7 system, then no problem.

It seems that when starting the installation from Win7, the installer check for updates online, so it downloads the correct drivers or whatever patches it needs to complete the installation correctly.

Is there any way to get those updates on a DVD so that I can do a fresh install booting from the DVD ? I tried to download the last Win7 ISO files but not sure if that will solve the problem. The X17-58996.iso didn't change anything. Which one is the most recent one ?

Well, thanks a lot if you can answer those few questions !

AddRAM · 24 Mar 2013

The link will be in here.

Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7

Keilnoth · 24 Mar 2013

This is exactly what I tried during the last 2 days and it doesn't change anything. The ISO is exactly the ISO I use.

theog · 24 Mar 2013

You can download up to date drivers for your Asus P5B Deluxe from here:
ASUS - P5B Deluxe

Keilnoth · 24 Mar 2013

And how do I tell the installer to use them during the installation from DVD boot ?

theog · 24 Mar 2013

Keilnoth said:

And how do I tell the installer to use them during the installation from DVD boot ?

SATA Driver - Load in Windows 7 or Vista Setup

Keilnoth · 24 Mar 2013

I don't really understand. I have no problem seeing my SSD. Is this tool useful to load any drivers ?

theog · 24 Mar 2013

You can load any driver, like your RAID drivers.

Keilnoth · 24 Mar 2013

OK ! That sounds good ! I am going to give that a try. Thanks for you answer, I will update the post to tell if that fixed my problem.

gregrocker · 24 Mar 2013

Let us know if that resolves it. Win7 has never liked RAID very much, and in most cases it isn't really needed with built-in drive imaging.

However since you say install completes when run from the OS (even though it locks out the C letter which makes that method undesirable) there may be something to the lack of RAID drivers.

Try also unplugging all other drives unrelated to the RAID, including the other OS drive.

If it persists I would ask what real benefits are conferred by the RAID, consider unRAIDING and installing only to target HD with all others unplugged.