The HD's are probably too BIG to be formattted by DOS. Would have to use FDISK possibly to create a small DOS partion, then see if it will format ? I don't think you have 2 BAD HD's.
I think gregrocker's idea of installing your HD on another computer first, then trying to install win7. If it installs, move back to your custom Biostar MB & see if it will boot.
Thats exactly what I had to do (took forever..)The HD's are probably too BIG to be formattted by DOS. Would have to use FDISK possibly to create a small DOS partion, then see if it will format ? I don't think you have 2 BAD HD's.
I think gregrocker's idea of installing your HD on another computer first, then trying to install win7. If it installs, move back to your custom Biostar MB & see if it will boot.
I will see if I can install 7 on a work machine with my HDD and then swap it into my machine tomorrow.
Again, I appreciate all the help/advice.
@TJ1376 is your drive a 2TB drive? Try partitioning the drive into 2 1TB partitions and then doing the Windows 7 install.
I had a weird issue with a 2TB drive a while back. I broke it up into 3 partitions. 100meg (Windows 7), 250GB and 1.3TB for Data. C: Is 250GB and 1.3TB is D: all worked fine after that.
Let us know.
WindowsStar, I believe in the earlier posts he had the 500gb HD divided up into 5 partitions for the win7 install.
I just got a Hitachi 2tb SATA HD for a new install, I guess I need to test it shortly to look for this type of problem with it
Doc please let us know how it goes, very interested in this. I want to put 5 2TB SATA drives in my Windows 2008 R2 server but while I was pre-trying that Windows 2008 R2 refused to see the full space correctly. I am worried there is an issue with the Windows 7/2008 R2 code in relation to 2TB SATA drives. Seems to work great on SAS or SCSI.
We probably should start a new Thread on this. Sorry for posting here.
Issue appears to be resolved.
Dont laugh at me...
It would appear that a bad SATA cable caused the issue with the HD. I will post more and clean this up a bit and make the first post reflect the root cause, but I thought I would let you all know.
I took the HD to our resident Win 7 guru at work and he said installing Win 7 on our machine and then taking it to my machine would not work.
So, since I already had the HD out, I figured I would rule out the SATA cable. Swapped a new SATA cable in and poof, the machine boots right into Win 7.
Anyone who has had a bad cable before is not laughing. I am nodding my head up and down" yep been there done that", Thanks for sharing your fix with us. Enjoy the install of 7..
Wow, that's incredible. 128 posts later, we all have something to remember for future cases.
I'm glad you have it sorted out now.
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