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| Thread ID: 112734 | 2010-09-20 06:17:00 | A tricky problem - Vista wont / cant get to the install screen | Speedy Gonzales (78) | Press F1 |
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| 1138476 | 2010-09-20 09:16:00 | That was similar to what I had with the 640GB - it was showing in the BIOS fine. I connected the drive to a workshop PC, W7 went into admin tools, disk management, and it wouldn't show there either. I put the drive back in the New PC, booted from Paragon Partition Manager, which saw the drive, made a partition and formatted it, THEN Windows 7 saw the drive and installed. Why this happened I dont know. Your drive sounds like its OK, if it weren't then W7 wouldn't see or install either. |
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| 1138477 | 2010-09-20 09:34:00 | Well seems similar to this description (forums.techarena.in), where the drive was formatted from a working system, then Vista installed once the drive was connected back as the primary drive. | kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1138478 | 2010-09-20 09:39:00 | Yup its the 1st time its happened (that the install screen didnt come up). And its rather annoying ! I tried Ubuntu that was fine tho. The live cd loaded | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1138479 | 2010-09-20 10:21:00 | Question asked in PM Speedy ?? | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1138480 | 2010-09-20 10:29:00 | Answered | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1138481 | 2010-09-20 11:09:00 | :D | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1138482 | 2010-09-20 23:23:00 | Managed to fix it. Saw on the MS forum, that USB legacy support can also cause this prob. Disabled it and the install screen decided to turn up lol. So, Vista is now reinstalled. And just updating it again now. I'll reinstall Win7, once I get a copy from either CB, or WT. Depending on who's cheaper :p And will probably install it next week | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1138483 | 2010-09-20 23:28:00 | Don't ya love it when you find the solution *after* you post about it :p | SoniKalien (792) | ||
| 1138484 | 2010-09-20 23:30:00 | lol you said it :badpc: I knew it wasn't me, the dvd rom, the dvd, or the ram. So, there wasn't much else to choose from :p Just funny that USB legacy was enabled before and Vista was on the same hdd before. It just didn't want to install / play nice this time :p | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1138485 | 2010-09-21 05:39:00 | I had a funny felling it was a USB issue, but I assumed you may have known that. I recall one time I had to have USB enabled or something to reboot XP with BartPE boot disc and it's USB plug in. So it seems Vista would not install because it was trying to seek if there was a USB drive or not? |
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