Windows 7 64bit Clean Install FAIL

First - I've been searching the internet for the past couple days on the topic and have found some great infomation here....thought I would join and take this issue thru to resolution.

This issue can be found in a number of places - however there is no final resolution...here's the issue.

Issue - New system/hardware fails to load Windows 7

Hardware - All NEW
Motherboard - Asus M4A79XTD EVO 790X AM3
CPU - AMD PHENOM II x4 945 3.0G AM3
Graphic Card - ASUS GeForce GTX 460 (Fermi) 1GB
Memory - G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 1600
Hard Drive - 1TB SATA Seagate Barracuda
OS - Windows 7 64-bit OEM
Power - Antec EarthWatts EA650 650W
ODD - ASUS SATA 24X DVD Burner
Case - Rosewill CHALLENGER

Specifics -
All new hardware installed humming along ....
MB Sata 1 port - Hard drive
MB Sata 3 port - ODD/DVD
MB Sata 4 port - Front case SATA port/unused

When I attempt to install windows with fairly generic bios setting ERROR
Fail to format partition [error 0X80070057]

or

Hang at starting windows - IE prior to window install screen

or

No Hard drive found to Install OS - However drive shows in Bios


Tweaks to Bios version 02.61 Attempted with and without
Disable Marvell ESata
Disable Marvell Esata ROM on Boot

Storage Configuration - Sata Port1-port4 [AHCI] or [IDE]
Sata Port5-port6 [AHCI] or [IDE]
Note **when IDE selected both DVD and HD are seen in bios and OS installing**

Boot Priority - CDROM
HD



Troubleshooting:
Checked Cables - Passed on another system
Checked Memory
Checked Hardware Compatability and OS
Pulled new hard drive and formatted in another system, replaced and attempted to install OS - FAIL
Move cables on MB SATA ports


So, what have I missed?

Continued TS - attempted to add silicon image sata drivers during OS install - with box checked hide all drivers not for this hardware.

Attempted silicon image sata drivers - 3114 and 3124 both AMD64 drivers

Thanks for the quick reply...

Monitor - ViewsonicVA1912wb attached via DVI

The hard drive when moved to another system was formatted with NTFS

DocBrown said:

Have you read our Questions List ?

Questions to use for help with Installation Issues

Great read - yes thank you and let me further clarify

After other system format and hd replace I have made to to step 9 once - when the system hung for over an hour on Expanding Windows files.

However - most often I get error Fail to format partition [error 0X80070057]
at Copying Windows files after about 5- 10 seconds

**Thanks for relocating to the correct forum**

I am using the DVD to install. It seems that I have a write / reference problem to the HD.

This is fairly barebones. 1 HD, 1 DVD. On the intial install I have an IDE drive / Slave that I was going to recover files from after OS install on new SATA drive - failed install and I reset bios, cmos and pulled battery over night to start fresh yesterday :)

Good idea - I just switched in a "known good" Lite-On DVD.

Same Error -
Windows could not format the partition on drive 0. The error occurred while preparing the partition selected for install. Error code 0X80070057