[QUOTE="Marfoo"]What's your new problem? EDIT: That's not an actual screenshot of your install is it?TheShadowLord07
no. its where i am at right now. i have like 698gb free on the hdd. I use the picture to show you people where I am right now.
Okay, click format to clear the HDD of anything, then it well say "XXXGB unallocated", then hit "New", This will create a new partition, a box will come up saying how big you want it, the default value is the maximum, just leave it max and continue. Then you should have something that says Partition 0 with all the space. Or sometimes it creates two partitions, one that's 100MB (For Windows recovery environment) and the other that's the rest of your space. Select the large one and hit next. EDIT: For single drive I recommend you use AHCI mode on your motherboard, it's faster than IDE mode for SATA drives and WIndows 7 supports it out of the box hassle free.
[QUOTE="Marfoo"]What's your new problem? EDIT: That's not an actual screenshot of your install is it?Marfoo
no. its where i am at right now. i have like 698gb free on the hdd. I use the picture to show you people where I am right now.
Okay, click format to clear the HDD of anything, then it well say "XXXGB unallocated", then hit "New", This will create a new partition, a box will come up saying how big you want it, the default value is the maximum, just leave it max and continue. Then you should have something that says Partition 0 with all the space. Or sometimes it creates two partitions, one that's 100MB (For Windows recovery environment) and the other that's the rest of your space. Select the large one and hit next. EDIT: For single drive I recommend you use AHCI mode on your motherboard, it's faster than IDE mode for SATA drives and WIndows 7 supports it out of the box hassle free.
no. its where i am at right now. i have like 698gb free on the hdd. I use the picture to show you people where I am right now.
Okay, click format to clear the HDD of anything, then it well say "XXXGB unallocated", then hit "New", This will create a new partition, a box will come up saying how big you want it, the default value is the maximum, just leave it max and continue. Then you should have something that says Partition 0 with all the space. Or sometimes it creates two partitions, one that's 100MB (For Windows recovery environment) and the other that's the rest of your space. Select the large one and hit next. EDIT: For single drive I recommend you use AHCI mode on your motherboard, it's faster than IDE mode for SATA drives and WIndows 7 supports it out of the box hassle free.
pt failed to create a partition.
Hmmm, strange, you can use this to test your drive. It should also be able to set it to factory defaults if you're having trouble with a partition. Just download the .ISO, boot it from a CD and run the tool. It will tell you if you have problems. Then I would do an erase on it. (the quick one not the full one).
[QUOTE="Marfoo"] Okay, click format to clear the HDD of anything, then it well say "XXXGB unallocated", then hit "New", This will create a new partition, a box will come up saying how big you want it, the default value is the maximum, just leave it max and continue. Then you should have something that says Partition 0 with all the space. Or sometimes it creates two partitions, one that's 100MB (For Windows recovery environment) and the other that's the rest of your space. Select the large one and hit next. EDIT: For single drive I recommend you use AHCI mode on your motherboard, it's faster than IDE mode for SATA drives and WIndows 7 supports it out of the box hassle free.Marfoo
pt failed to create a partition.
Hmmm, strange, you can use this to test your drive. It should also be able to set it to factory defaults if you're having trouble with a partition. Just download the .ISO, boot it from a CD and run the tool. It will tell you if you have problems. Then I would do an erase on it. (the quick one not the full one).
hmmm i dont hvae a spare cd drive or a floppy drive. i am not sure if it can support windows 7 rc too
Hmmm, strange, you can use this to test your drive. It should also be able to set it to factory defaults if you're having trouble with a partition. Just download the .ISO, boot it from a CD and run the tool. It will tell you if you have problems. Then I would do an erase on it. (the quick one not the full one).
hmmm i dont hvae a spare cd drive or a floppy drive. i am not sure if it can support windows 7 rc too
You don't have a spare CD Drive or Floppy Drive? What are you using to install Windows 7 RC 1? You must have an optical drive.
[QUOTE="Marfoo"] Hmmm, strange, you can use this to test your drive. It should also be able to set it to factory defaults if you're having trouble with a partition. Just download the .ISO, boot it from a CD and run the tool. It will tell you if you have problems. Then I would do an erase on it. (the quick one not the full one).Marfoo
hmmm i dont hvae a spare cd drive or a floppy drive. i am not sure if it can support windows 7 rc too
You don't have a spare CD Drive or Floppy Drive? What are you using to install Windows 7 RC 1? You must have an optical drive.
im using this:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136153
im using this:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136153
That should work fine, why can't you boot from the diagnostic tool again?
what you mean?
I just recommended you burn the Western Digital diagnostic tools to a CD and boot from it to see if there was a problem with your HDD and you responded "hmmm i dont hvae a spare cd drive or a floppy drive. i am not sure if it can support windows 7 rc too".
[QUOTE="Marfoo"] That should work fine, why can't you boot from the diagnostic tool again?Marfoo
what you mean?
I just recommended you burn the Western Digital diagnostic tools to a CD and boot from it to see if there was a problem with your HDD and you responded "hmmm i dont hvae a spare cd drive or a floppy drive. i am not sure if it can support windows 7 rc too".'how would i access the software on the cd when i put it in?
I just recommended you burn the Western Digital diagnostic tools to a CD and boot from it to see if there was a problem with your HDD and you responded "hmmm i dont hvae a spare cd drive or a floppy drive. i am not sure if it can support windows 7 rc too".'how would i access the software on the cd when i put it in? Oh, I see how you're confused. I'm sorry. This CD has DOS built in and will boot your system much like you can boot from the Windows CD. You don't need an operating system to use it.
Sounds like windows 7 is having troubles using your hard drive. Since it does recognize it at least in some way it's probably not a driver issue. I would try a windows vista or windows xp installation disk just to see if it can at least get started. If you can install vista or xp it's obviously an issue with windows 7 RC or the media it's burned on . If you suspect the hard drive is bad there is many different diagnostics programs you can burn on CD or copy to flash drive. There's the wd diagnostics if you have a wd drive at: http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=605&sid=30&lang=en I prefer to use mhdd which is a very low level program that can do some extensive scans. You can find it included in the system rescue cd at: http://www.sysresccd.org
Sounds like windows 7 is having troubles using your hard drive. Since it does recognize it at least in some way it's probably not a driver issue. I would try a windows vista or windows xp installation disk just to see if it can at least get started. If you can install vista or xp it's obviously an issue with windows 7 RC or the media it's burned on . If you suspect the hard drive is bad there is many different diagnostics programs you can burn on CD or copy to flash drive. There's the wd diagnostics if you have a wd drive at: http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=605&sid=30〈=en I prefer to use mhdd which is a very low level program that can do some extensive scans. You can find it included in the system rescue cd at: http://www.sysresccd.orgsuperdav42
but yhe only way to get xp or vista is uy downloading it. can it be something wrong with the dvd drive?
[QUOTE="Marfoo"] I just recommended you burn the Western Digital diagnostic tools to a CD and boot from it to see if there was a problem with your HDD and you responded "hmmm i dont hvae a spare cd drive or a floppy drive. i am not sure if it can support windows 7 rc too".Marfoo
'how would i access the software on the cd when i put it in? Oh, I see how you're confused. I'm sorry. This CD has DOS built in and will boot your system much like you can boot from the Windows CD. You don't need an operating system to use it. the think ask me about a license thing
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