Assuming your hardware is not broke I'm inclinded to believe its something to do with your SATA drivers. Or lackoff. (and that code is useless:P)
http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us

Try going into the bios and see if it recognises the drive, also if its set to sata, see if you can enable the IDE controller and try and use the drive that way.

I don't know how the windows 7 installs as I have not done it yet, but if its anything like XP it does ask for 3rd party disks (press f6 etc).
At this point you might need to install the drivers than came with your MOBO. I know windows 7 comes with sata drivers, but it might not come with the sata drivers for your system.

So perhaps booting off your motherboard, making a sata disk (mine physically requires a floppy drive) you can try that and looking for a prompt BEFORE installtion will help.

Lastly, you try locating the sata drivers (google is your friend) and slipping them into a copy of windows 7 using nlite.

it sounds disk related to me and my guess your chipset is not supported. So you're going to have to get your hands dirty, if that's the case.

Nah, he said that he has allready installed Windows. Lack of SATA drivers would cause bluescreen right after the instalator starts.


PS: it is possible to integrate SATA drivers using nlite or vlite and then burn it on cd/dvd then install.

it detects the cd rom drive 100% and yes my cd rom and hard drives are all sata, ive booted from the cd multiple times trying to install the OS, after loading windows booting from cd, close to the end of the loading screen to go to the menu to select if u want to upgrade, install etc etc blue screens and crashes


prior to that, i installed windows fine with the current set up so it can't be that jamerio.

the only problem i have with my sata drives is that dos won't detect them, nor does it detect NTFS but that doesn't matter as the hd is blank.

Right, so is the drive actually formatted with NTFS?

You sure its not in "RAW MODE"?

If you can read it from another pc, try reading it inside Partition Magic 8 (or some other disk MGT tool) and see if its actually saying its formatted with the NTFS.

Just found that.
http://blogs.technet.com/seanearp/archive/200...on-it.aspx

Its defo a disk problem, your hardware is fine, its just a partition or table problem. Convinced from the start.

after what i recently posted, after trying a puppy linux install i now get a kernal panic cpu context corruption, so now maybe its my cpu im going backwards and forwards here, fucking annoying me and i can't afford to go splashing out willy nilly on hardware that may or may not be faulty.


the partition, are you sure? ive used f disk to delete, completely securely delete, and recreate an active partition, my original windows install was obviously in NTFS undetectable via dos, so i made a new partition in fat32, my sata hard drive has bio drivers built in but a lot of dos programs find my hd undetectable as its sata, im running out of solutions here,


also im using a shitty laptop off my m8 for my inet use atm, so I can't run partion magic unless i can find an bootable version in dos mode.

I agree with Jamerio, sounds like a lack of SATA drivers. If its not that then i would start swapping your RAM in and out of different slots to see if your memtest didn't miss something. Basically just start swapping hardware in and out until it works. My guess is that it's your SATA controller not having a driver built into Win7 or its just gone bad. I would do a test on the hard drive as well just to make sure.

done fdisk, deleted the partion, formatted it securely and done a test on it, run mem test ram tests r fine, ive took all my slots of ram out, tried different slots etc etc


at the moment i have a blank hard drive that won't boot anything as nothing is installed.

plus ive tried installing vista too, that didn't work

blue-screen doing installation of windows usually is hardware failure of some sort.

Sata drivers or not I doubt it is those since i've never come across a blue-screen without sata drivers.
But you should check out the asus web site for bios updates or sata drivers or you could just plug them into a normal IDE connection and go around the sata.

Unless the hard drive itself is broke. I would bet good money its...

B) Sata related
C) Formatted incorrectly (in which case the sata problem might not yet have happened)

I would read it on another PC inside partition magic and go from there. I don't trust ANY version of windows for this sort of stuff.

it can lie which can lead you into fasle solutions.
It probably just needs a nice low level format.

Run memtest on your system. I had faulty module and it caused BSOD and other crashes.

still battling until my uncle can lend me some computer parts to test for faulty hardware, tried the ultimate boot cd which has shit loads of dos tools, all cpu tests are fine, mem test is fine, likely now to be a mobo prob or my g card has died, currently trying to install puppy linux hoping i can manage to get windows installed thru that,

try reinstalling windows.

try not to play shit rpgs next time.