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Asus p9x79 ssd installation with new instalation of windows 7 pro
So i have a new SSD Corsair Force 3 240 gig and all I want to do is install Windows 7 Pro on it. This board does not support parted magic (cannot wake from sleep and there are no onboard video to wake up to) so ive resorted to clean all.
I have not been able to successfully boot the OS on the SSD. I never intended on setting up raid but apparently all the literature i see is on raid.
- I created a USB install disk as reccomended onto a 8gig ntfs primary active
- did the bootsect /nt60 X: and it successfully worked
- copied the cd over to the flash drive and copied the rste drivers in a folder called drivers
- My SSD is installed on port 1 6gig sata intel (as this board doesnt have marvel apparrently)
- My DVD is installed on 3gig Sata port 6
- I set up Raid in the bios as reccomended by others (as this is the only way to install ssd?). Nothing UEFI is enabled
- There are no other drives hooked up to the computer. Just SSD, USB cordless mouse, keyboard and no network cord or WIFI
- i started with a clean ssd as reccomended
- my bios recognized the ssd on post
- i booted into the win 7 install (MBR not uefi)
- i loaded the 64 bit rste drivers from asus as reccomended by others
- i left the machine to install
- the usb then booted into windows install (for whatever reason)
- i pushed f8 to boot my corsair
- windows brings up an error on a black screen
File: windows/system32/drivers/adpahci.sys driver did not load
Status: oxc0000221
Info: Windows Failed to load because of a critical system driver is missing or corrupt
A lot of people have the same issue with asus but i've never seen anyone who posted the solution?