How much more clear could we have been?
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Gregrocker,
My apologies!
Thank you for not just ignoring my post. You had good reason.
My first sentence should have included the following words:
I want to install Windows 7 on a single SSD which may need some attention before it can be used.
I am trying to follow your advice.
Before I try again using the advice in your tutorial, is there anything I can learn from what was installed by the failed attempt? If not, I will use the Command Prompt instructions you give to reformat the disk.
I did mention that the 8 Gb of RAM I installed shows as 3.5 Gb when I run the Upgrade Report utility from MS. You do say memory issues may cause bad installs.
Today I did see a post suggesting that I may have to upload a driver for my new SSD. Does this make sense or was it someone uniformed?
thanks,
baumgrenze
If you haven't tried installing to the single SSD yet then there's no need to wipe the drive first which is more of a troubleshooting step for Overcoming Windows 7 Installation Failures which does not apply here yet until you have installation failure.
So just follow the steps for Clean Install Windows 7 deleting all partitions using the Drive Options during Steps 7 and 8, which is all that's really needed to get it ready for a clean install.
Does the RAM all show up in extant OS? if not and it doesn't all show up in the new install I would try reseating it, checking for debris in the slots, make sure it is spec'd and installed correctly, then if still necessary test RAM - Test with Memtest86+ following the steps in tutorial to test sticks and slots.
Hi baumgrenze :)
Good decision to follow Greg's advice.
I have a Custom rig with SSD + 750gb HDD + external 1tb HD.
Win7 Home Premium 64bit (on SSD) boots quicker than I can blow my coffee and dare to sip.
Start times for applications also on the SSD are <1 second.
The 3 XP rigs I have are not in the race.
Thank you, Gregrocker,
The 8 Gb of installed memory shows up in XP x86 as 3.5 Gb, not 4. I mentioned it because the answer might be obvious to you and a few hours of searching for me.
Should the Win 7 install process find functional (if not the most recent) drivers for fundamental devices like the Realtek RTL8111B Ethernet Controller, the P35 chipset, and the ICH9R controller hub which are on my motherboard. I ask because Gigabyte provides driver downloads that are older than those listed as the most up-to-date on Realtek's and Intel's websites. Is what I really want the most current driver for Win 7 x64. Might I want to update them after the install if the install process provides something that works. As I recall the files downloaded from Intel are *.exe files that need to run on a booted system. I may have all this wrong. I'm having difficulty keeping everything I've read straight in my head.
Thanks,
baumgrenze
32 bit (x86) can only use about 3.5 gb RAM but some is used by hardware so it's okay to use 32 bit on 4gb of RAM or less. But for 4 gb or more RAM you must use 64 bit to have it use all of the RAM.
Gregrocker,
Thanks for the explanation.
Have you ever used Kim Henkel's ZTree for windows? If not, take a look at:
ZTreeWin
I checked one of the drives from my failed install and found 43 *.log files and 411 *.txt files. When I logged the drive I was prevented from seeing part of the file structure, i.e., ZTree reported "G:\Documents and Settings\*.* Access Denied [5]"
Here’s a ZTree catalog of the *.log files
Disk Volume: 4-28-14 10:54:08 Page 1
Available space 105,476,378,624 bytes
64,543 logged files using 26,971,204,476 bytes
10 tagged files using 2,949,735 bytes
Path: G:\$WINDOWS.~BT\Sources\Panther
2 tagged files using 233,002 bytes
4-19-14 21:38:55 194,890 .a.. setupact.log
4-19-14 21:38:43 38,112 .a.. cbs.log
Path: G:\Windows
1 tagged files using 17,488 bytes
4-19-14 20:41:17 17,488 .a.. setupact.log
Path: G:\Windows\inf
3 tagged files using 2,207,536 bytes
4-19-14 20:41:01 1,962,005 .a.. setupapi.dev.log
4-19-14 20:40:29 18,555 .a.. setupapi.app.log
7-14-09 0:44:10 226,976 .a.. setupapi.offline.log
Path: G:\Windows\Panther
2 tagged files using 487,332 bytes
4-19-14 21:38:43 38,112 .a.. cbs.log
4-19-14 20:41:16 449,220 .a.. setupact.log
Path: G:\Windows\Panther\UnattendGC
2 tagged files using 4,377 bytes
4-19-14 20:54:28 1,109 .a.. setuperr.log
4-19-14 20:54:28 3,268 .a.. setupact.log
I think that this might be a brief, significant explanation of the failure. 'Gathering' and copying and pasting all the log files into Word in landscape mode gave a 585 page file, far to much for anyone to try to read and digest.
G:\WINDOWS\Panther\UnattendGC\setuperr.log
2014-04-19 20:41:16, Error [windeploy.exe] Setup.exe failed, returning exit code [0x1f]
2014-04-19 20:41:16, Error [windeploy.exe] Failure occured during online installation. Online installation cannot complete at this time.; hr = 0x80004005
2014-04-19 20:48:25, Error [windeploy.exe] Found failed generalization state [6] --> system is in an invalid state
2014-04-19 20:48:25, Error [windeploy.exe] Failure occured during online installation. Online installation cannot complete at this time.; hr = 0x8030000c
2014-04-19 20:51:52, Error [windeploy.exe] Failure occured during online installation. Online installation cannot complete at this time.; hr = 0x8007000a
2014-04-19 20:54:27, Error [windeploy.exe] Found failed generalization state [6] --> system is in an invalid state
2014-04-19 20:54:27, Error [windeploy.exe] Failure occured during online installation. Online installation cannot complete at this time.; hr = 0x8030000c
In G:\Windows\ntbtlog.txt I ALSO learned this which might be significant:
"Did not load driver @netrtx64.inf,%rtl8168.devicedesc%;Realtek RTL8168B/8111B Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC (NDIS 6.20)"
thanks,
baumgrenze
Last edited by baumgrenze; 28 Apr 2014 at 13:08. Reason: clarification
I will close this thread. The opening title no longer applies to the questions I have remaining. I hope that the moderators agree.
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