windows embolom and starting windows

GT60

Yes that's turned on

GT60

Please can we carry on tomorrow now?

were

have a look on the main bios page again please, see if a drive shows?

control-f not working and no other options appear?

GT60

On the first page all it shows is the d d drive but on the boot page it shows the HD as the second boot option

Still Can't find.any ctlr f
Sorry

were

Since we have the promuse card working you should be able to disable the onboard sata boot rom.




Also by using photobucket, in the future if you ever need these pictures, you may have deleted them and this long post becomes useless.

were

just try a windows 10 installation cd too.

Do you have a windows 7 x64 installation dvd?

GT60

So convert back to Raid for the operating mode?
Will try 10 again later.
I have a 7 iso disc and the one that came with my Dell pc
It is the 7 iso that I have been trying to load when I started this post
Thanks
I will report back in a few hours or less.

GT60

[/IMG]Ok reverted back to Raid and here is my results




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Not sure how I got the ctrl f but it came after the first photo I remember that much


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were

the reason I believe it came up is because you changed the bios from ide emulation to Raid.

In Raid mode win 7 is probably out of the windows. Even in ide mode win 7 x64 was to use older drivers (xp x64 or 2003 x64 - I cant remember which). Driver support for this board was only up to xp. VIA (sata1) controller is faster and more stable, but drivers are for xp. People seem to have more luck with the Promise card on win 7. Win 7 the first version of windows that supports drivers loading from usb when you install it, I believe.

What I want you to do is not the way to do it, even if below does even work. Intel is the favourite, and better supported.


Just press 2, and take a picture - I'm nosey.

Then press 1. Not exactly sure what it will ask, but you want raid 0 and with in raid 0 you want something like jbod, disk expansion, but second choice at a push is Performance mode. Mirror will be no good for you. Come back to me with a list of choices, but if it only Performance and Mirror, then choose Performance. Non of this may work though?

Ideally I want that disk to be recognised, and tested. On too many screens the drive has shown up as not found. Go to [STRIKE]Seagate[/STRIKE] WD and download the DOS boot cd that checks the status/condition/surface of your SATA drive.

Remember the drive has to show up in Boot Menu section of the bios, no matter which option you choose

if it appears in the boot menu, try a windows 10 dvd too

[STRIKE]If non of it works, go back to the bios and change it back from raid to "Onboard IDE Operation Mode" and run DOS boot cd that checks the status/condition/surface of your SATA drive.[/STRIKE] Reading around, you need the raid controller, as that is the only one supported in windows 7 x64, if you fiddle enough?

[STRIKE]I also have a old IDE hard drive at home somewhere, will make your life immensely easier, you can have it if you want it?[/STRIKE] You could still have it, but I believe we are very close.

Big clear pics please

GT60

pressing number 2 or 1 just reboots
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