#Sata drivers for windows 7 asus 88 install

That's it, Windows 7 will now correctly see and intall to the drive.ДЄs a plus, gparted now has total control over NTFS partitions and can create them as well as manage the flags, etc. When it's done, fix the master boot record: On my system, the drive in question was /dev/sdcДЄ quick sudo fdisk -l will tell you what yours is. Now you're ready to do anything to an NTFS formatted drive. Next download the b file for your architecture (I used i386) from here: Windows users can let their eyes glaze over for a bit. What I needed to do was boot back to my regular working OS, in this case Ubuntu Linux 8.10 and use some NTFS fix utilities on the drive, including the Linux equivalent of fixmbr.ДЇor the Penguin crowd out there trying this, here's what you need to do. It also says there is additional information in the log files, but I can't find any way to view them, if they even exist at all. I have tried with the drive as unallocated space and after the installer creates the partition and formats it, it still gives the same error message. After backing out of the install, the drive is formatted as NTFS and works fine for data storage. The drive is a blank freshly formatted drive with 118 GB free on it. If I use an external utility to create the ntfs partition and make it bootable, the win 7 partitioner sees the system partition, but still gives the same error message about not being able to find or create a system partition.

#Sata drivers for windows 7 asus 88 install

When you click next, it says it can't find or create a system partition to install on. It has no facility to create a system partition. It always sees the drive and can format it, but only as a primary partition. In all cases it gets to the point where the formatter appears.

I have tried without and with the drivers from my mobo for vista 32 bit or vista 64 bit where appropriate for ahci and non ahci installs.

I have tried with the bios set to ahci and to non ahci. I am trying to install the win 7 beta both 64 bit and 32 bit on my ASUS mobo amd phenom based system on a blank fujitsu SATA hdd.