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TalintTalint Member UncommonPosts: 168
in Hardware

Hello MMORPG Community,

 

I'm typing this up to see if anyone will answer me in the next 20 mins so I may refrain from buying a new hard drive but here is my problem:

 

I bought a new PC the other day.  I built it from scratch.  Got all the parts, put it in, you know the drill.  I turned it on and all went great.  Seemed like none of the parts were faulty what so ever.  I popped in Windows 7 to go ahead and install an operating system on my machine and it hung at the screen that says 'setup is starting.'   This happened for the rest of the day.  I let it go over night and when I got up the next day it moved to the next step.  Now I get passed the 'setup is starting' step every time, but I get hung when I choose where to install windows 7.  Again, I let it go over night and when I got back it left an error message that said, 'windows 7 cannot create a system partion on this hard drive.' (or something along those lines).  This leads me to believe it is the hard drive.

 

As I said I'm going to buy a new one shortly, please respond!

 

Talint

Non sibi sed patriae

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  • QuizzicalQuizzical Member LegendaryPosts: 25,499

    List what hardware you have.

  • TalintTalint Member UncommonPosts: 168

    Motherboard - EVGA P67 FTW

    Graphics Card - EVGA Geforce 570

    Processor - I5 2500k

     

    What else do you need?

    Non sibi sed patriae

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  • QuizzicalQuizzical Member LegendaryPosts: 25,499

    If you built it yourself, then you should know all of the components.  It doesn't hurt to list things that might be irrelevant.

    The hard drive could matter, since that's what seems to be the immediate difficulty.

  • RidelynnRidelynn Member EpicPosts: 7,383

    Try plugging it into various SATA ports on the motherboard. It sounds like your plugged into an extra RAID controller provided by the motherboard and Windows just isn't able to initialize it properly without drivers.

  • noquarternoquarter Member Posts: 1,170

    I had similar behavior on a build for a friend. Setup would take forever, just hang at a % for hours, finally installed and was unstable. We thought it was the drive and tested different drive out but same issue.


    Turned out to be a bad stick of memory. Lent him some memory while we RMA'd his (they wanted both sticks back) and the replacement memory worked fine.


    I would run memtest86+ on it.

  • GruntyGrunty Member EpicPosts: 8,657

    Those 20 minute time frames can get expensive. As does not using ESD protection properly. Never lay memory modules on the bags they come in. Leave it IN the bag, The outside of the bag acts like a farraday cage not an insulator.

    "I used to think the worst thing in life was to be all alone.  It's not.  The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone."  Robin Williams
  • RidelynnRidelynn Member EpicPosts: 7,383

    Originally posted by noquarter
    I had similar behavior on a build for a friend. Setup would take forever, just hang at a % for hours, finally installed and was unstable. We thought it was the drive and tested different drive out but same issue.
    Turned out to be a bad stick of memory. Lent him some memory while we RMA'd his (they wanted both sticks back) and the replacement memory worked fine.
    I would run memtest86+ on it.

    I've seen this too but didn't remember it - good thinking, and good thing to test.

    You don't need Windows to run Memtest86, as it comes on it's own bootable CD/Thumb drive image.

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