Solved USB & BIOS issues

[ThrashZone]

ASUS cd's have a ton of crapware on them

I'd start with the chip set drivers and lan drivers and sound drivers probably realtek.
That should be enough to get you going
Until you go to the asus site and get the updated ones of the same.

Then check device manager for any signs of Unknown devices.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/96442-device-manager-finding-unknown-devices.html

 

[iglotruck]

All right, chipset-, LAN- and audio drivers it is!

 

[ThrashZone]

Once you get the 3 drivers off the cd do nothing more until you install the windows updates you want
If you don't want all of the windows 10 stuff be sure to exclude these updates from being installed
View attachment 380211

First change your update settings to these,
View attachment 380212

After all windows updates get your security installed
Looks like you use MSE :/
I would suggest Panda free
http://www.pandasecurity.com/usa/homeusers/solutions/free-antivirus/

 

[iglotruck]

Okay, fresh Windows 7 plus the three drivers you mentioned are installed. The following devices need troubleshooting:
"Simple communicationsdevice for PCI"
"Unknown device"

I have changed the Windows Update settings, although "Give me updates for Microsoft products [...] when I update Windows" and "Show me detailed [...]" are not listed. Everything else is set to the same as the image you linked.

I'll make sure to exclude the Windows 10 stuff.

I'll have a look at Panda Free when I've gotten that far.

 

[ThrashZone]

Okay if you open the cd again and look though the listing for PCI/ PCI-E listings you can get that one
That is for your graphic's card slots.
You have a display obviously so it can wait until after the updates download and install

 

[iglotruck]

While waiting for the updates I've been having a look at my hard drives. My 3TB HDD has been devided into three; 1x 100MB partition (for system files or something, that's fine and can stay there), 1x 746GB (which I can't do anything, "new volume" etc. is greyed out), and one 2TB (what's left after the 746GB and 100MB partitions) that I've formatted and is ready to be used. How do I merge the 2TB and 746GB partitions when I'm unable to access the latter?

Okay if you open the cd again and look though the listing for PCI/ PCI-E listings you can get that one
That is for your graphic's card slots.
You have a display obviously so it can wait until after the updates download and install

There are no PCI-E drivers listed. I guess it'll fix itself once I install the GeForce drivers? Also; do I need the "Intel AHCI/RAID Driver"? It's listed on its own tab on the CD software.

How long is Windows Update supposed to take? It's always been extremely inconsistent for me, taking anywhere between 15 minutes to 2-3 hours.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Mini tool is great to deal with drives and partitions...
Best Free Partition Manager for Windows | MiniTool Partition Free

 

[iglotruck]

Hi,
Mini tool is great to deal with drives and partitions...
Best Free Partition Manager for Windows | MiniTool Partition Free

Sweet, I'll download and have a look!

EDIT: The software won't launch. Again, my OS isn't in English, but here's a broken translation:
"Cannot start because the side position configuration is wrong, check log"
I'm unable to find the log, it's not in the installation-folder, nor in my documents.

 

[iglotruck]

3 of 237 updates installed. I'll give Mini Tool another shot when the updates are done. I'll be back with a sitrep later tonight.

 

[ThrashZone]

Yikes not sure what to do about the language and install deal :/
You don't show a region you're in
I have no clue if mini tool needs a english install or not ?

Yes you should wait until you have your security up and running before surfing the internet and downloading stuff
Panda preferably

I've been using panda for about 4 months I like it a lot
It's light years better than MSE

 

[iglotruck]

Still working on the updates, Panda has been installed.

Quick question, might be a stupid one: Do I need the USB 3.0 drivers? Will the 3.0 ports work as regular ports if I don't install or are they not functional at all?

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Yes you can pick up the usb 3.0 drivers from asus site when you get the other newer drivers,
They would still work just not a 3.0 speed but then again it takes a 3.0 device to get those speeds

 

[Layback Bear]

Your USB 3.0 drivers are probably on your motherboard CD.

You can install them later when everything is up and running properly.

 

[iglotruck]

Hello again!

My computer is now working completely fine, thank you so much for your help.

There is however one last thing that I'd like to fix:
The System Reserved partition is on my 3GB hard drive, meaning I can't format it to make use of all the 3GB, it's stuck on 2. How do I move the System Reserved partition to my C-drive so I can format and make use of all the space on my 3GB hard drive? I've tried both Window's disk management and Mini Tool, but can't seem to find out how to do it.

 

[Barman58]

This tutorial may give you some ideas on how to proceed ....

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/105541-startup-repair-run-3-separate-times.html

The full tutorial explaining the startup repair procedure is here ...

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/681-startup-repair.html

In your case you would probably be best physically disconnecting the 3 TB Drive and then booting, as the boot will fail you can then follow the tutorial to move the files (or more correctly re-create them) onto your windows Drive

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
I haven't used this process here's an easier way to copy the boot manager to C
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/209885-bootmgr-move-c-easybcd.html

 

[iglotruck]

Hi. I tried using EasyBCD, but it tells me "The drive you have selected is already the current boot drive. Please select a different drive to continue!", it's referring to my C-drive. Does this mean I don't really need the system reserved partition and can delete it? The status of the system reserved partition is "Active, Primary partition". The status of my C-drive is "System, Boot, Paging(?), Active, Crashdump, Primary partition".

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi
Show us a disk management screen shot
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/274797-disk-management-post-screen-capture-image.html

 

[iglotruck]

Screenshot added. Ask me if you need translation.

 

[Barman58]

It would appear from what you have said and the image that the system reserved partition is not actually in use and may be removed, although it's only 100 MB so is really irrelevant

It looks like it's not the System partition the is limiting the maximum size of that the disk partition can be, but the 2TB limit of the old disk operating system you are using, you should be able to format the un-allocated space to create a new additional drive or you will need to reformat the whole drive as a GPT format to allow access to all the space

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/26193-convert-mbr-disk-gpt-disk.html