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    Acer S3: Impossible to install Windows 7

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Pess, Jan 28, 2012.

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    Pess Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have a problem: a friends of mine just bought an Aspire S3 (with a 20 gb SSD and a 320 gb HDD) and I wanted to do a fresh Wiodows install on it.
    So I load a MSDN copy of Windows 7 Professional 64 bit in my USB Pen and started installing Windows erasing actual partitions (I done it a thousand times) but suddenly HDD disappeared in the setup menu (can see the SSD only but I can't operate on it).
    Now BIOS correctly recognise the HDD installed but the Windows Setup Menu doesn't see it (I try to load the RST ACHI driver but nothing)...

    What can I do??

    :(

    P.S. I'm Italian, sorry for my awful English...

    Can Nobody help me? :(

    Ubuntu 11.10 sees correctly all the partitions...
     
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    downloads No, Dee Dee, no! Super Moderator

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    Try to install Windows once more then.
     
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    Pess Notebook Enthusiast

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    Ok, problem solved: i brutally erased all partitions with a bootable Ubuntu key and Gparted...
    So when I tried to install once more Windows 7 all was ok... That's a really strange thing however, but...

    All's Well That Ends Well!!

    :D
     
    Pess, Jan 28, 2012
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