Windows 7 Enterprise installation woes

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rudirautenbach

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Trying to install Windows 7 Enterprise 32bit on my machine. When booting with the disc it gives an I/O read error on one of the devices (does not say which one). I managed to install it from within Windows 7RC1, but it is a messy installation as it kept my program files folder with all installed programs, without having the programs actually installed in the new OS.

Anyone experienced similar issues? Been running RC1 64bit for several months now, multiple re-installations and never had a problem.
 
Nope, had no issues at all. Check your hard drive settings, you may need to turn off that IDE mode, cant remember what it is called.
 
I installed both Win 7 Enterprise 32bit & 64bit on my machine. no problems or errors.
 
I suspect it might be the DVD drive, or a faulty installation disc (media). Resetted the RAID volume (deleted & recreated), unplugged all USB devices (except keyboard & mouse), no luck.

Going to test Windows 7 RC1 installation media now, will check and report.
 
Damn, the RC1 installation media does the same. I guess this probably points to a failed DVD drive. Or could it be that one of the HDD's in the RAID volume is failing too?

Help guys please...
 
Sounds like the DVD is faulty. Did you buy that DVD? Have to tried booting off that same disk in another PC to see if it's a disk problem?
 
I got around a similiar problem like this:

For some reason my PC won't boot up with some discs it is supposed to. I then put in a disc from an older version of Windows which I know that works, go into the recovery option, open up a command prompt, switch the discs in the drive to the correct one, and then run the setup.exe file from there.

The rest of the installation then works perfectly.
 
rudirautenbach said:
Damn, the RC1 installation media does the same. I guess this probably points to a failed DVD drive. Or could it be that one of the HDD's in the RAID volume is failing too?

Help guys please...
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Try break the RAID array and install on just one disk, native SATA. If it works then its a RAID driver problem....
 
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