Windows won't install
 

I'm trying to put windows onmy pc with no luck what so ever, its getting to the part where I select a drive and it won't let me install on any drive and I have five installed and two have operaring systems on them already. One is a dynamic drive, two are system drives and the other two are primary drives and it won't go on any of them.

I have tried formatting them, making them unallocted drives by using another pc and it still won't install. I have also tried using XP, Vista and Windows 7 and still the same.

Its the first time I have came across this problem and google is just a minefield so has anyone got any sugestions as I'm sick of pulling drives and trying new op systems.

Windows 7 should give you the option to remove the drive and reinstall it again, have you tried that?

Any SSD's ?

AHCI is your enemy...

dunx

I would take all drives only leaving one. I've had this problem before and that cured it for me

Not running RAID are you?

Win7 is AHCI friendly.

I would still use IDE mode in the bios over the AHCI, shouldnt require any drivers out of the norm then.

I'm tempted to just do that, they are all sata drives as I don't think I have an ide drive lying around anymore.

RA Dunk, there is no other option to use the drives, format option which doen't work and expand which makes no difference as well. I have tried deleting the drive and trying to use it from that and still no luck.

I unplugged all the other drives and just left the one in I have been trying to get windows on that had unallocated space and it went on 1st time :D

:thumb:

Sorted now just got in from the pub and finished the install, Windows 8 beta running on my Windows 7 ultimate key :D Only thing that bugs me is I can't get rid of the Microsoft legal stuff on the bottom of the screen, apart from that it looks well :D

Hmm format option works well for me, used it five times in the last week and again tonight, my new SSD is now sitting doing feck all, I've installed everything onto one single drive.

Seems to take a bloody age to boot now without the SSD installed, going to ty a bit of gaming tomorrow, if everything runs fine with no crashes them all my recent problems will be aimed at the SSD!

Sounds like you had conflicting drives. Glad you sorted it :D

I normally just set one dvd drive and one hdd upin the bios, disable the rest then set the boot preferences :)

Tony:)