Issue Installing Win 7

Operating Systems & Open Source Windows
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Hey guys I just recently built a PC. A friend of mines was able to download a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate and the two of us installed it on my PCs 128 GB SSD. It was working a for a while last night and I was able to install a few drivers but then while I was trying to install Crysis 3, it crashed on me. 

I restarted my PC and this is what it tells me now

http://www.flickr.com/photos/51695493@N03/8543219341/

Does anyone have any clue to what or why this is happening? Any help you can give me would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

 

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Some of the drive space is saved for the startup repair and the mbr

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Well I reformatted my SSD again and it allowed me to use it but when I do that and go through the process it gives me this screen after it restarts

 

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[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/51695493@N03/8544535232/]IMAG0409[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/51695493@N03/]Kidd Ace[/url], on Flickr

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go into your bios and make shure that ssd is set to ahci mode.... you always need to when installing windows

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ahci mode? Ok I'll give that a try thanks. 

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Ok I switched my SSD to AHCI mode. Made sure that my optical drive was the main boot drive and this is what I'm getting when I try to install windows

 

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[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/51695493@N03/8546866101/]IMAG0413[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/51695493@N03/]Kidd Ace[/url], on Flickr

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If you have mulitple hard drives attached, try removing all of them except for the SSD that Win7 will go on. 

 

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what you need to do, is download the AHCI driver from your Motherboard Manufacture website, extract all the files onto a flash drive, then try the installation again and make your you click on load drivers. That always seems to work for me

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How can I upload a new driver to the motherboard if I don't have Windows 7 installed?

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Ok found out the SSD I had was the issue. Now I'm up and running fine. Thanks everyone for the help!!!

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what was the issue?

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It was being read consistently. The BIOS saw it on one try and wouldn't on another. So I installed Win7 onto the other hard drive that I had and installed the drivers. So now after all those are installed, its seeing everything perfectly. Now I'm wondering how to deal with things because I want my boot drive to be read off of it not my 200 GB HDD that I'm using. I'm wondering should I try to install everything once again on the SSD to see if it will work out right this time. 

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yes, try it. Should probably work with the updates, if that was also the issue with your HDD.

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I'm hoping it does work. If I have the updates on one HDD and use and SSD for my OS now, I'm just hoping everything doesn't get wiped out again