aybarsm Posted October 9, 2011 Share Posted October 9, 2011 Hello there, I have Force 3 120 GB and my drive's serial starts with 1129. First of all, I gave a shot to drive without updating and secure erasing it. Windows 7 was installed without a problem. However, as you can guess, BSOD started and sometimes I am not even able to use my PC for 3-4 hours without crash. I held on 3 weeks with that. After that what I have done with order: - Updated BIOS to the last version (My PC's specs on the forum user are correct) - Updated drive's firmware 1.2 to 1.3.2 - Tried to secure erase with Parted Magic (it was on AHCI) The erase duration was too short. - I tried to install Win 7 but got the error (On target instalaltion drive step) (Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition. See the Setup log files for motr information.) - Then I made some search and I switched to IDE - Boot parted magic and did secure erase again. (It last much longer than the first one.) - I switched to AHCI again - Tried to install Win 7 again but still the same error. (On target instalaltion drive step) (Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition. See the Setup log files for motr information.) What did I wrong? or What am I doing wrong? What should I do now? Kind regards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdh Posted October 9, 2011 Share Posted October 9, 2011 had some what the same issue. Boot up with Windows 7, get into recovery mode, get to a dos prompt. run diskpart do a disk list and then select your disk do a partition list and then delete all the partitions on the drive. once you do that, shutdown and reboot, Windows 7 should reinstall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted October 10, 2011 Share Posted October 10, 2011 had some what the same issue. Boot up with Windows 7, get into recovery mode, get to a dos prompt. run diskpart do a disk list and then select your disk do a partition list and then delete all the partitions on the drive. once you do that, shutdown and reboot, Windows 7 should reinstall. ^To a more brief instruction. -Make sure your SATA Mode/Storage Configuration is set to "AHCI" -Change your boot priority to your Optical Drive. -Shutdown your computer and disconnect any other hard drive. -Turn on your computer place your install DVD in the drive. -When you are in the Welcome screen of the Install DVD Press Shift+F10. A command prompt should popup. -Type "diskpart" No quotes -Type "list disk" No quotes -Select the only drive so for example # Drive Capacity 0 Corsair Force Series 3 XXGB Then you would type "Select disk 0" No quotes -Then once it says selected disk drive type "create partition primary" No quotes. -Press Enter. -It should now say Diskpart sucessfully create a partiton. -Type "exit" no quotes. -Type "exit" no quotes. -Continue with normal installation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aybarsm Posted October 10, 2011 Author Share Posted October 10, 2011 Thank you for the instructions. I have tried the diskpart but I was unable to install it. However I made some search again it proved that there must be no "dynamic disk" during Windows installation. I have a raid 0 partition on embedded Marvell controller. So I have disconnected all drives except SSD and it was the solution. Thank you very much again. Regards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted October 10, 2011 Share Posted October 10, 2011 Good to hear that you solved your problem. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horos Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Thanks alot kdh and Toasted, i had the same issue and after i used your instructions my problem solved. :D: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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