{"id":7467,"date":"2014-06-19T04:00:05","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T04:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/2014\/06\/19\/impossible-to-create-format-install-windows-7-on-unpartitioned-hd-collection-of-common-programming-errors\/"},"modified":"2014-06-19T04:00:05","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T04:00:05","slug":"impossible-to-create-format-install-windows-7-on-unpartitioned-hd-collection-of-common-programming-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/2014\/06\/19\/impossible-to-create-format-install-windows-7-on-unpartitioned-hd-collection-of-common-programming-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"Impossible to create\/format install Windows 7 on unpartitioned HD-Collection of common programming errors"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9d96093408df0463815ff4d9b8a0c1a9?s=32&amp;d=identicon&amp;r=PG\" \/><br \/>\nslhck<\/p>\n<p>I am going nuts reinstalling Windows 7 on one of those Acer aspire all-in-one&#8230; The original OS (Windows Professional x64) was not starting, after the initial screen the BIOS was prompted. So<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Step 1: I tried to access the system partition and reinstall everything but could not get to that point<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Step 2: I set the BIOS to\u00a0 native\u00a0IDE and I tried to insert my original copy of Windows Professional and do a clean installation, but it does not allow me to format\/create another partition for the installation mask<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Step 3: I tried to install Ubuntu and I cleaned the whole hard drive, I was getting an error at some point during installation so I decided to get back to Windows<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Step 4: Windows 7 again, at the disk screen of the Windows installation I opened the prompt and played around with <code>DISKPART<\/code>&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I listed the disk and the HD was disk 0.<\/li>\n<li>I selected disk 0.<\/li>\n<li>I <code>CLEAN<\/code>ed disk 0 successfully.<\/li>\n<li>I tried to create a <code>CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY<\/code> but gave an error about the cache being corrupt and the disk not being up-to-date (after I tried to create a partition in disk 0 it disappeared when I try <code>LIST DISK<\/code> and I have to restart before it can list DISK 0 again. <code>RESCAN<\/code> did not work).<\/li>\n<li>Tried <code>CLEAN ALL<\/code> (2 hours) and succeeded.<\/li>\n<li>Tried again to create a primary partition and failed, same errors<\/li>\n<li>Tried to install my old copy of Windows XP Pro and it seems to work, it creates a partition, formats (only &#8220;quick&#8221; worked, slow mode was at 0% and after 1 hour so I stopped), it starts installing and at around 90% installation it says it could not copy a file and\u00a0it stops.<\/li>\n<li>Back on Windows 7 again, it says that the hard drive has 490+GB unpartitioned but won&#8217;t create a partition and format.<\/li>\n<li>I tried again with <code>DISKPART<\/code> as I thought I messed up the MBR when I installed Ubuntu, so I did all of these instructions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The errors were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>On <code>bootsect<\/code>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>the system partiton was not found, Data error cyclic redundancy check<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>on <code>bootrec \/FixMbr<\/code>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A device attached to the system is not functioning<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But it did not work, and I still can not partiton\/format\/install on a blank HD. I tried some bootable clean disk tool and started an infinite loop on the same errors.<\/p>\n<p>The BIOS setting are: SATA: native IDE. If I set AHCL (or something like that) it does not load the HD and the DVD. Quick start\/quiet start: disabled.<\/p>\n<p>Are there any other options or tools I can try before I change the HD (that is my last option)?<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c89fd336f564e402985833b6e958f71a?s=32&amp;d=identicon&amp;r=PG&amp;f=1\" \/><br \/>\nSt0fF<\/p>\n<p>Sir, the erro message (step 4-4) was clear as clean water. The disk cache (RAM inside the HDD) is corrupt. Either you find a way to completely disable it (and have a disks that is as slow as a tortoise), or you get a replacement disk.<\/p>\n<p>odds: -&gt; encountering an error in linux: bail out -&gt; encountering an error in windows: retry, retry, retry, ask a question. Weird behaviour&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>slhck I am going nuts reinstalling Windows 7 on one of those Acer aspire all-in-one&#8230; The original OS (Windows Professional x64) was not starting, after the initial screen the BIOS was prompted. So Step 1: I tried to access the system partition and reinstall everything but could not get to that point Step 2: I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}