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    Corsair force 3 240 gb SSD

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by Kalz, Oct 19, 2011.

  1. Kalz

    Kalz Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello,

    just got my new drive and ive installed it into my g53sw-3de
    that was the easy part ive still got my original hdd installed.
    and im installing windows 7 64 on to it and it restarts gets to expanding files and has hung the first time at 52% 2nd time 75%and third time at 24%.
    and has not got passed this stage after i left it for 6 hours.
    so im wondering what im doing wrong?

    if anyone knows or has some ideas just give me a shout

    thanks

    G53SW - 3DE
    8gig DDR3 - i7 2.0ghz - 2.9, GTX 460m, win7ultimate, old hdd 500gig seagate momentus x2. (currently just one atm)
     
    Kalz, Oct 19, 2011
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  2. Support.3@XOTIC PC

    Support.3@XOTIC PC Company Representative

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    Check the BIOS to see if the hard drive is in IDE mode, if so change it to ACHI
     
    Support.3@XOTIC PC, Oct 19, 2011
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  3. Kalz

    Kalz Notebook Enthusiast

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    it is set to ACHI, so is not that.

    Edit: i just installed the firmware 1.3.2 sucessfully and now it completes the installation and then does the restart, when its loading up new windows it now just tells me windows failed to install and deletes all the files.

    so what now?

    thanks
     
    Kalz, Oct 20, 2011
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  4. pato

    pato Notebook Evangelist

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    Sounds like a broken disc to me. You could try to remove the other disk for the installation. In rare cases can that cause issues.
     
    pato, Oct 20, 2011
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  5. Kalz

    Kalz Notebook Enthusiast

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    by disc do you mean the solid state drive?
     
    Kalz, Oct 20, 2011
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    pato Notebook Evangelist

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    Yes :) Sorry that I used the old term disc :)
    Normal installation of Win7 on a fresh harddrive (harddisc) goes like this:
    Enter DVD and boot from it, start installation, enter serial, wait for the around two reboots, add a user, done.
    Nothing fooling around or so. After those simple steps should it be installed and basically running. After that come the drivers and Windows Updates.
     
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  7. Kalz

    Kalz Notebook Enthusiast

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    yeah i was guessing the same thing the only difference ive been using a 8 gig usb pen drive, and if it matter ive been installing it while my old primary is still in with win 7 on to fall back on (im accustomed to pc problems)
     
    Kalz, Oct 20, 2011
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