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    Please HELP? p-6860fx vista install error

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by john066, Dec 2, 2008.

  1. john066

    john066 Notebook Enthusiast

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    My p-6860fx has worked fine for the last few weeks. Yesterday I installed a second hard drive (a second 3200 bevt). I enabled raid in the bios and restarted with the vista install disc gateway gave me. During installation i get this error message:
    "windows cannot open the required file d:\sources\install.wim. Make sure all files required for installation are available, and restart the installation. Error code: 0x800700D"

    Gateway techs are idiots, and have no clue what it means. I spoke to 8 different techs and got 8 different solutions. One tech even told me the p-6860fx doesn't support raid. Several of them think it's the hard drive and i'm telling them it isn't since the hard drive work several hours ago, and the D drive recovery partition is long gone since i set up the raid vollume. My guess is that i have a bad install disc from gateway.

    Does anyone have any idea what is going on?

    Also i've hear it said that i can use any copy of vista for my install as long as i type in my product code. Is this true?

    Thanks in advance!!!

    John
     
    john066, Dec 2, 2008
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    Mormegil83 I Love Lamp.

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    have you reinstalled the os since you went RAID? Everything on your hard drive needs wiped and put back on in RAID form... (in generic terms)
     
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    iaTa Do Not Feed

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    Have you configured RAID by pressing Ctrl+I after the POST screen?

    And you cannot use your key with retail copies of Vista as it is an OEM key - make sure it is OEM.
     
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    john066 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Yes I did configure raid by pressing crt+i and no i have not installed anything since i configured the raid, trying to install vista but i keep getting the error code.

    Any ideas?
     
    john066, Dec 2, 2008
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