PLEASE HELP!!! I have spent over 10 hours trying

skylinepigeon · 06 Dec 2009

gregrocker said:

Here are your board drivers: ASRock > Products > Motherboard > P55M Pro > Download

I wonder why it only lists SATA RAID drivers. ANYONE HAVE SATA DRIVERS FOR THIS BOARD?

The AHCI driver on the disk might suffice for now.

Confirm on first BIOS page you have latest BIOS update.

I have the first release of the BIOS driver 1.00. I am a little afraid of updating my bios... could you guide me through it??

Could this be the cause??

skylinepigeon · 06 Dec 2009

reghakr said:

Yeah, I deleted everything XP formatted using Gparted, and created a 60gig partition like a previous user directed me to

I have used this countless rimes with no error, yet when I tell someone else to use it, they have problems.

LOL, and I bet millions of users around the country have upgraded to windows 7 without problems...

sigh. this really sucks.

gregrocker · 06 Dec 2009

kalas72 said:

Sorry to bust in here but, can you take your HDD to another computer and check it for errors? Those errors sound like maybe a bad sector on HDD.

Very good idea. Read failures are normally: 1)ISO,Burn, 2)OS, 3)HD errors files/surface

Stand by will download WD Lifeguard diagnostics into this post to burn to CD - Won't let me download GWScan (WD Lifeguard bootable) ISO, so here is app to extract, find ISO in C:Cabs file, burn to CD using ImgBurn at 4x with verify.

Just boot the CD from where HD is and run full diagnostics.

You can also zero HD after doing full diagnostics/repair. Also run chkdsk [drive:] /f from DVD command line to completely clear HD.

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skylinepigeon · 06 Dec 2009

i am writing it right now.

skylinepigeon · 06 Dec 2009

well, when i boot from the wd disc, it "starting caldera dos" shows up, and then the screen goes black and nothing else happens....

gregrocker · 06 Dec 2009

skylinepigeon said:

gregrocker said:

Here are your board drivers: ASRock > Products > Motherboard > P55M Pro > Download

I wonder why it only lists SATA RAID drivers. ANYONE HAVE SATA DRIVERS FOR THIS BOARD?

The AHCI driver on the disk might suffice for now.

Confirm on first BIOS page you have latest BIOS update.

I have the first release of the BIOS driver 1.00. I am a little afraid of updating my bios... could you guide me through it??

Could this be the cause??

After checking HD and getting AHCI driver into installer, need to resolve SATA drivers (replaced by AHCI?) then consider BIOS upgrade. Others ideas?

skylinepigeon · 06 Dec 2009

well, seeings that the wd checker didn't work, i have downloaded the gwscan and am now in the process of scanning the hard disk.

Progress report: QUICK TEST COMPLETED WITHOUT ERRORS. now on to full media scan

Estimated time remaining an hour and a half.

Thank you Greg for sticking with me this entire time. Your support is truly appreciated

gregrocker · 06 Dec 2009

WD Support > Downloads > SATA & SAS > WD Caviar Black

skylinepigeon · 06 Dec 2009

well i just finished the complete scan and it found no errors. :/

gregrocker · 06 Dec 2009

Now boot into WIn7 DVD Repair Command Line and run chkdsk /f