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[iron]

Had Windows 7 7100 86x and worked ok. Formated drive and when I try to install Windows 7 RC 64 it says: The boot selection failed because required device is inaccesible. Have Windows Vista installed one drive. Trying to install 7 on second drive by itself.

 

[SIW2]

When you say Drive - do you mean a separate partition or HD?

Please post a screenshot of Disk Management - like this:

 

[iron]

2 hard drives

I have vista 32 bit on one drive and am trying to install windows 7 rc 64 on a second drive. Don't know how to copy a picture of my drives the way you did. I can bring them up on the screen but can't find a option to copy.

 

[Uber Philf]

Iron, use the "print screen" button on the top right of your keyboard (may appear as Prtsc or prtscrn)

Then open up windows paint, or any image editing software and press Ctrl + V , to paste the image, save it and upload it as an attachment.

Hope it helps!

Enzo.

 

[iron]

Disk Management

Thanks. Here is a picture of my Disk Management

 

[Uber Philf]

OK, i could be wrong, but the way i see it, run the W7 Disc, and when it asks you where you would like to install W7, choose your second HDD, and it should start installing.

Can someone correct me if im wrong.

Enzo.

 

[Anthony]

Yes, install it to the larger of the two drives 465GB.

 

[YupYup]

OK, i could be wrong, but the way i see it, run the W7 Disc, and when it asks you where you would like to install W7, choose your second HDD, and it should start installing.

Can someone correct me if im wrong.

Enzo.

Yes but the boot files will be written to the vista drive which i assume is the device that is being reported as inaccesible.

 

[SIW2]

Hi,

A couple of ways round this may be:

1. Install the free Daemon Tools Lite on Vista. Mount the 7 iso - run setup and point it at the second HD when it asks where you want to install.

Lite version is third one down on this page:

Downloads :: DAEMON-Tools.cc

OR

2. Detach the Vista HD. Install 7 on the remaining attached HD by booting the 7 dvd in the normal way.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1649-clean-install-windows-7-a.html

You can setup dual boot by adding the bcd entries afterwards.

Hope it helps.

 

[snifferpro]

Disconnect Drive 0 and start the install and you should be ok.

Once installed, you can reattach Drive 0.

Then, at boot, press F8 to bring up the Bios boot manager and select
the drive you want to boot from.

 

[Uber Philf]

Yeah, Snifferpro's got the idea, disconnect vista drive, connect w7 drive to main connectors, run w7 disc, install on drive, place w7 drive as slave, and vista drive as master, boot up, enter BIOS and select OS to boot.

I think thats right, havent done it for ages tho. Correct me if im wrong.

Enzo.

 

[SIW2]

He only needs to disconnect the Vista drive and then install 7 - exactly as point 2. of my earlier post - which snifferpro kindly repeated.

 

[Uber Philf]

Oh, my bad :S

Enzo.

 

[YupYup]

There is a thread here where a user had a problem with a removable device causing the "The boot selection failed because required device is inaccessible " error. I noticed in your device management that you have some removable devices so disconnect them and try installing.

 

[iron]

Disconnected one hard drive tried to boot on the other and get this message: Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key.

 

[Snufffed]

Might be he needs to login to Vista as Admin, not std user.
that is the only reason I can see he would not have permission to write to C:\ and install Win7 as dual boot.
it also takes a fairly experience operator to add the dual boot sequence.

I also agree with all other suggestions. but I think he will have major problems with the rest of it

disconnect vista drive, connect w7 drive to main connectors, run w7 disc, install on drive, place w7 drive as slave, and vista drive as master, boot up, enter BIOS and select OS to boot.

 

[iron]

Now when I boot into the second drive I get: BOOTMGR is missing

 

[snifferpro]

You have to set your bios to boot from your DVD drive first in able
to install Win 7 to the empty hard drive.

You can also try tapping f8 at boot to get the bios boot screen and
select your dvd drive to start the install

 

[iron]

windows 7

I did set my bios to boot from dvd.

 

[snifferpro]

can you tap f8 at boot (keep tapping) and see if you get a bios boot screen
where you can select the dvd drive to boot from