Solved Installing Windows 7 on a SSD, 2 different behaviours

[Keilnoth]

Hello all,

Small question here, if you don't mind.

I am currently trying to install Windows 7 on a new SSD harddrive. I already have a Windows 7 installer on an IDE drive but I want to create a new system drive on the SSD. My SSD is in a RAID layer that account 2 other drives linked in RAID1 but the SSD is not a RAID drive itself.

When starting the installation from the DVD, booting on the DVD, I have many errors like I/O errors and files not found errors (0xc00000e9, 0x800703EE, 0x80070003). But if I start the installation from my already installed Windows 7 system, then no problem.

It seems that when starting the installation from Win7, the installer check for updates online, so it downloads the correct drivers or whatever patches it needs to complete the installation correctly.

Is there any way to get those updates on a DVD so that I can do a fresh install booting from the DVD ? I tried to download the last Win7 ISO files but not sure if that will solve the problem. The X17-58996.iso didn't change anything. Which one is the most recent one ?

Well, thanks a lot if you can answer those few questions !

 

[AddRAM]

The link will be in here.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/219487-clean-reinstall-factory-oem-windows-7-a.html

 

[Keilnoth]

This is exactly what I tried during the last 2 days and it doesn't change anything. The ISO is exactly the ISO I use.

 

[theog]

You can download up to date drivers for your Asus P5B Deluxe from here:
ASUS - P5B Deluxe

 

[Keilnoth]

And how do I tell the installer to use them during the installation from DVD boot ?

 

[theog]

And how do I tell the installer to use them during the installation from DVD boot ?

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/68505-sata-driver-load-windows-7-vista-setup.html

 

[Keilnoth]

I don't really understand. I have no problem seeing my SSD. Is this tool useful to load any drivers ?

 

[theog]

You can load any driver, like your RAID drivers.

 

[Keilnoth]

OK ! That sounds good ! I am going to give that a try. Thanks for you answer, I will update the post to tell if that fixed my problem.

 

[gregrocker]

Let us know if that resolves it. Win7 has never liked RAID very much, and in most cases it isn't really needed with built-in drive imaging.

However since you say install completes when run from the OS (even though it locks out the C letter which makes that method undesirable) there may be something to the lack of RAID drivers.

Try also unplugging all other drives unrelated to the RAID, including the other OS drive.

If it persists I would ask what real benefits are conferred by the RAID, consider unRAIDING and installing only to target HD with all others unplugged.

 

[Keilnoth]

So, I tried to install the RAID drivers and pretty much every drivers I found on the Asus website, with no success. I even tried to put the SATA ports on AHCI mode with the same unsuccessful result. I tried with both DVD of Win7 I have, the old one and the ISO I burned.

I don't know what to do anymore. Any idea ?

Oh, I got a new error BTW, it is called 0x8007048F with the same "cannot access files" related message.

It seems that some people had problems with their DVD Burner with the same error and my DVD Burner was having an odd behaviour when installing, sometimes just stopped or would not load the DVD doing some CRACK sounds : Reoccuring install error 0x8007048F [solved] - Win Toolkit - WinCert.net Forums

I will try to find a 4Go USB key tomorrow at work and try to install booting from USB.

 

[Keilnoth]

Sooooo, I think my initial problem was solved by using the RAID driver as explained above. Then I had that 0x8007048F error and this one was solved by installing from a USB key. It seems that either my DVD is too old or the DVD I burnt was corrupted.

Everything is fine now.

I used the downloaded ISO file and ran the installation with all my RAID array connected but I disconnected my old system HD. Then I reconnected it but only after the installation so it took the letter G:.

Thanks for your help !

 

[gregrocker]

You may need to unplug that DVD drive if it interferes further.

 

[Keilnoth]

Will see, never had any problem when ran from Win7.