BSOD When Install Something On Secondary Drives
Feb 24, 2010
I am an IT professional however cannot figure out this issue on my my machine and its driving me nuts
I have Win 7 64 Ultimate on RC build 7100 and everything runs fine, however since next week the OS will expire and my machine will reset every 2 hours therefore i upgraded to the official Win 7 64 Ultimate and the blooming machine gives me a BSOD every time I try and install something on my secondary drives (d: e: f: )
Thought it was an AVG issues or access privileges since my other drives where formatted on other previous OS`s (c: for windows, d: for games, etc.) However it now even seems to be doing it if I try and install stuff on C: - now I have a hunch it might be AVG FREE causing the issues, dunno, any suggestions would be appreciated.
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Mar 19, 2009
I am not sure if this is a Windows 7 "issue" but I assume it is because I never noticed it in XP.
I have 4 drives in my PC. 1 for the OS, 1 backup, 1 data and 1 backup for the data drive.
What I have noticed the recently is that while the PC is running I can hear a drive power down and slowly stop spinning. If I trry to access the files on that drive it powers back up and I get to the files just fine.
While it is not a big issue I don't like having my drives start and stop all the time just because of the wear on the motor.
Is this a setting I am not aware of or anything I can do to change this?
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Aug 2, 2012
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I ordered a Windows 7 Home Premium retail upgrade at the discounted price a few months ago and expect it in a month.
My Seagate drive is running low on space and I want to retire it. I would like to boot to the Win 7 DVD, have my Vista install on the Seagate recognized, and then do a clean install of Windows 7 on the Western Digital drive, currently E.
I hope to buy another considerably larger backup drive shortly to replace the Western Digital as a backup drive.
Will the WD drive be available as a location for the installation in these circumstances?
Any previous time I have installed MS operating systems, I always chose to install to the same drive as the existing OS. This time things are different due to little space on the Seagate drive. Windows 7 would certainly fit on my current C, but I want to retire that drive.
Or will this remain a complete unknown until some time after October 22?
Or will I be forced to install to the Seagate and then somehow migrate the install to the WD?
I have not played with the RC, so I don't know what options are normally presented during the install.
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Check my Hardware specs for full information
Current setup:
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A 1TB mechanical hard drive.
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The install fails shortly after clicking "Install Now"
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