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| Thread ID: 125659 | 2012-07-11 01:28:00 | ei-cfg removal | bk T (215) | Press F1 |
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| 1287762 | 2012-07-11 04:49:00 | Most newer machines see a bootable USB stick as a hard drive so you need to change the hard drive boot order to put the USB stick first. We hardly ever get a machine in the workshop that won't boot from USB, usually only very old XP machines are the ones that give issues. We've moved away from installing from USB now anyway and have setup a server running Windows Deployment Services in the workshop. Even more machines support PXE booting from the network than booting from USB so very rarely now we have to resort to USB or CD/DVD. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 1287763 | 2012-07-11 05:25:00 | Most newer machines see a bootable USB stick as a hard drive so you need to change the hard drive boot order to put the USB stick first. We hardly ever get a machine in the workshop that won't boot from USB, usually only very old XP machines are the ones that give issues. We've moved away from installing from USB now anyway and have setup a server running Windows Deployment Services in the workshop. Even more machines support PXE booting from the network than booting from USB so very rarely now we have to resort to USB or CD/DVD. Damn, do they? I guess that's why most people don't try to install a new os at 4am :p I didn't notice another HDD, but I wasn't looking for one so there could easily have been one. :thanks: |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1287764 | 2012-07-11 05:27:00 | Damn, do they? I guess that's why most people don't try to install a new os at 4am :p I didn't notice another HDD, but I wasn't looking for one so there could easily have been one. :thanks: Haha yea 4am you'd be like -_- They won't actually show up on the list of hard drives, where you would normally see HDD0, HDD1 etc on the SATA ports, they only show in the list for hard drive boot order. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 1287765 | 2012-07-11 10:31:00 | Tried to use the Win7 USB download tool to install the files to the USB drive but towards the end pops up this error message: "we were unable to run bootsect to make the usb device bootable" Tried the diskpart utility but still don't work. Did it before and it was a breeze (from memory), it took only a few minutes to complete the whole process. But just could get it going this time! |
bk T (215) | ||
| 1287766 | 2012-07-11 10:43:00 | Is the version of Windows youre trying to install 32 or 64 bit? And does the computer youre trying to install it on support 32 or 64 bit? If you're trying to install 64 bit on a 32 bit system you cant. You need the 32 bit version of bootsect.exe from a windows 7 32 bit DVD. Or vice-versa | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1287767 | 2012-07-11 10:47:00 | My computer OS is 64 bit and the ISO is also 64 bit. | bk T (215) | ||
| 1287768 | 2012-07-11 10:55:00 | Try this see if it works. (rufus.akeo.ie/). Its meant to be better than that Win7 download tool | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1287769 | 2012-07-11 11:26:00 | By any chance are you renaming the ISO file when its created by ISO Recorder ?? If you are, the windows 7 USB tool wont work. It HAS to be the original name. All you should have to do is put in the original W7 DVD, right click it, Create image from CD\DVD - ISO recorder opens, select a place to save it. Once created, run the removal tool at it to remove the ei-cfg, then reburn the ISO back to a New DVD. If you wanted it on USB, then open the W7 install Tool, select the ISO , select the USB drive and tell it to create it. You dont need to use diskpart as the W7 tool will wipe and format/prepare the USB drive. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1287770 | 2012-07-11 11:44:00 | By any chance are you renaming the ISO file when its created by ISO Recorder ?? If you are, the windows 7 USB tool wont work. It HAS to be the original name. All you should have to do is put in the original W7 DVD, right click it, Create image from CD\DVD - ISO recorder opens, select a place to save it. Once created, run the removal tool at it to remove the ei-cfg, then reburn the ISO back to a New DVD. If you wanted it on USB, then open the W7 install Tool, select the ISO , select the USB drive and tell it to create it. You dont need to use diskpart as the W7 tool will wipe and format/prepare the USB drive. It's in its original name, and I did exactly as you mentioned above (did that before) but just won't work with the bootsect error. :badpc: Try this see if it works. ( Its meant to be better/faster" target="_blank">rufus.akeo.ie/). Its meant to be better than that Win7 download tool No, speedy, doesn't work. :badpc: What could be the reason?? faulty flash drive? -- unlikely. |
bk T (215) | ||
| 1287771 | 2012-07-11 12:04:00 | Copy the DVD to the hdd use cdburnerxp to create the ISO. Under its options, you can change it to UDF (under data disc / disc menu / file system). Add the files to it then create an ISO (after adding the files off the DVD / file menu / save compilation as ISO, then burn the ISO) | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
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