Windows7 cant install on GTP partition & Device Driver install missing

[theog]

Ok . What your Sata configuration setup as under Advanced in the BIOS ? Did the laptop come with windows 8 perinstalled ? UEFI has 3 partitions .

   Information

Partition 1 - System
Partition 2 - MSR
Partition 3 - Primary

Windows 7 has three.
Windows 8 has four.

 

[mfrowen]

Yes my machine come with Windows7 pre-installed as no optical drive with this computer.

Yeah 3
1. EFI systempartition
2. OS Windows
3. Recovery

and 4th partition I made for Data and back up

My sata config is and be surprised by the amount of options. These are in order:

Sata Mode Selection [AHCI]

Serial ATA Port 0
Device Type
Model Name
Serial Number

....Thats every option in sata config

 

[VistaKing]

That has to do with a bad installation files .

Lets try this again when you get the error again . Remove the drive and click cancel button and get back to the window where it says Install . Then put the USB drive back to the USB 2.0( left side next to DC port ) and click on Install .

Added: Change SATA from AHCI to either IDE or legacy which ever option it has

 

[mfrowen]

I suppose I could. I will look into it now but not sure if gonna have enough space on a usb... This UEFI boot menu has hardly no options compared to others

 

[VistaKing]

To bypass formatting in the USB device within the tool:

   Note

The USB device should be formatted manually before running the tool.

If you need to format the USB drive within Diskpart to get it to be Fat32 format do the Diskpart commands before running the Windows 7 DVD/USB Tool.

1. Ensure the registry key "HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ISO Backup Tool" is created.

2. Create a new DWORD value named "DisableFormat" in this location and set the value to 1.

Found how to disable the formatting feature in the tool.

 

[mfrowen]

Window7 DVD/USB tool does not work. Tryed fixes and still got no where. Yes I run the dispart commands before I put the iso on the usb

Also just tryed it AGAIN and exacly like you said you and still got there error. I even re done the boot usb disc. Why is my damn computer being annoying. Irs only a konth and bit old

 

[VistaKing]

Can't we just disable the whole UEFI thing and just install Windows ? Before you had issues did you create recovery discs ?

 

[theog]

Yes my machine come with Windows7 pre-installed as no optical drive with this computer.

Yeah 3
1. EFI systempartition
2. OS Windows
3. Recovery

and 4th partition I made for Data and back up

My sata config is and be surprised by the amount of options. These are in order:

Sata Mode Selection [AHCI]

Serial ATA Port 0
Device Type
Model Name
Serial Number

....Thats every option in sata config

Backup your Data to Ex HDD, & make the ASUS USB Pen Drive Recovery.


Before you start make your Recovery disk.
Disable Boot Booster in BIOS setup before you perform system recovery from USB flash disk, external optical drive or hidden partition.

1. Press <F9> during bootup.
Ensure to press <F9> only once during bootup.
2. Select the language you use and click to continue.
3. Repeat the step 1—2 in the previous section.
4. Connect a USB storage device to your PC and click Backup in the Recovery System dialog box to start the recovery files backup.
The size of the connected USB storage device should be larger than 16GB.
Memory cards are not supported for this function.
A dialog box appears as a reminder if you have not connected the USB storage device for system recovery backup to your PC.
5. Select a desired USB storage device if more than one USB storage device is connected to your PC and click Continue.
6. All the data on the selected USB storage device will be cleared. Click Continue to start the backup or click Back to backup your important data.
You will lose all your data on the selected USB storage device. Ensure to back up your important data beforehand
7. The system backup starts and click OK when done.

 

[mfrowen]

Can't we just disable the whole UEFI thing and just install Windows ? Before you had issues did you create recovery discs ?

No cant disable it. The UEFI is basically the BIOS...

Dont have an optical drive so cant make disks.

As I said in the first post. Been trying to do a clean Re-install of windows to get rid of factory Bloatware.

Thank Theog. I will get hold of a big external hard drive asap then I can do a back up. Then I will clean my OS drive at the install now screen using diskpart. I will have a look and set to default and see it it helps

 

[VistaKing]

You could disable the UEFI . Get an external hard drive . Then you could wipe the laptop hard drive to have 1 partition .

 

[theog]

Can't we just disable the whole UEFI thing and just install Windows ? Before you had issues did you create recovery discs ?

No cant disable it. The UEFI is basically the BIOS...

Dont have an optical drive so cant make disks.

As I said in the first post. Been trying to do a clean Re-install of windows to get rid of factory Bloatware.

Thank Theog. I will get hold of a big external hard drive asap then I can do a back up. Then I will clean my OS drive at the install now screen using diskpart. I will have a look and set to default and see it it helps

4. Connect a USB storage device to your PC and click Backup in the Recovery System dialog box to start the recovery files backup.
The size of the connected USB storage device should be larger than 16GB.

 

[mfrowen]

Reset UEFI/BIOS to default and still got the same issue.

I will sort one out tomorrow its late now.

But thank you guys, your help is much appreciated. I will let update thread when I get an ex hd

 

[gregrocker]

He wants to get rid of bloatware.

The driver prompt almost always means a bad USB installer, and never means it actually needs any SATA driver.

If you want to install in UEFI mode you need to create UEFI Bootable USB Flash Drive - Create in Windows

Then again you must follow the steps for UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) - Install Windows 7 with - Windows 7 Forums

If you want to avoid UEFI for now and install normally to an MBR disk here are steps which always work to Bypass UEFI to Install WIn7. If you still get the driver prompt I'd use UltraISO Software To Create Bootable USB Flash Drive as it always works when the others don't.

Then follow the steps to get a perfect Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7

 

[theog]

Nope. As Disk 0 is my primary and only hard drive on this. Both my asus recovery and Windows Image Back-up are partitions on Disk 0 so I would have nothing to boot from. And I dont have an external drive big enough. I would have no backups so that would be a mistake.

I will have to get hold of one and make it bootable for windows image

The OP does not want to lose the ASUS Recovery Partition with the bloatware if any.

 

[gregrocker]

As Theog always says, make your Recovery disks.

Then you may have to delete the Recovery partition, and a backup image should never be stored on the same HD as it defeats the purpose of having it in case of HD failure.

 

[mfrowen]

Yes I know it is quite pointless having a backups on the same HD but sadley with 1 hard drive and no big enough ex hd as of yet. Catch 22.

Working on get one today then will get on with it

 

[gregrocker]

You can also back up your files to the web, using the same freeware and Skydrive to sync, access online and store to the cloud: Sync, Backup and Store your Files to the Cloud with Skydrive - Windows 7 Forums

 

[spapakons]

If you don't have a DVD-ROM in your notebook, then you can use an external USB 2.0 DVD-ROM and put the Windows 7 DVD-ROM there. Any Windows 7 DVD-ROM of the same Windows 7 version (eg Home Premium 32-bit or 64-bit) will do, all you need is the serial from the sticker under your notebook. So you plug the USB DVD-ROM in a USB 2.0 port and a USB Flash drive with the SATA/RAID driver in another. Alternatively, you can create a Windows 7 installation USB Flash drive using Microsoft's Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool (Google it). When at the point of selecting the installation partition, use the advanced tools options and browse to the USB Flash drive folder where you copied the SATA/RAID driver. Usually are the files you would use to create the Floppy (in Windows XP installation you are only allowed to load drivers from a floppy disk, pressing F6 when prompted), I'm not sure if you can use Windows drivers that would use to install the controller in Windows. Anyway, after the SATA/RAID driver is loaded, Windows 7 Setup will automatically see your hard disk and make its partitions available to choose for installation. Select the partition you want and proceed as normal.

 

[gregrocker]

Everything you need is provided and explained in Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7