The Windows 7 Thread - Tips, Tricks, Horror Stories And Annoyances

[AJW256]

Re-burned the disc, still acts the same. Ideas anyone?

[Clunk]

Didn't you swap the SATA cable on your HDD for the DVD drive?....didn't the HDD problems go away?

[AJW256]

Yes, no HDD problem now, DVD drive is IDE. Works fine, boot memtest & such (don't start again about memtest )

[Clunk]

OK I see, dunno then Does sound hard disk related though.

[AJW256]

Originally Posted by Clunk

Does sound hard disk related though.

How do u work that 1 out

[affiliate13]

Actually now you come to mention it, i think i had a similar problem when installing Win7 7k on my R0 w/AHCI. In the end i made a boot disk with Vlite and slipped in the Intel ICH9R drivers and the latest matrix manager in the apps.
The only other thing i remember doing different was not formatting/deleting partitions or owt on the array i just let windows sort it out for itself, worked a charm.

i'll be home tomorrow night if you still need it looked at.

[AJW256]

Thanks affiliate. Build 7000 installed fine, might try vLite. Unfortunately I have all my OSs on 1 drive where I want to install win 7. I don't want to have to re-install everything just for win 7.

[godsdog]

Agreed, Windows blows crocodile knobrot. You should install Fedora 11 Beta release notes. Get the KDE version far better than anything Windows has to offer.

[AJW256]

I prefer Mandriva & Ubuntu thanks.

[godsdog]

Broaden your horizons then