Hard disk red light stays forever and windows installation taking more than 20 hours

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Tushh Gadkar

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Hello friends.. I have western digit 320 gb sata harddisk.. I am currently facing problem.. my pc hang , windows could not start so i tried to install fresh copy deleting all partation but it took almost 20 hours but still setup was on *completing installation* then i tried with 5 different dvds , xp windows 7 , 8 and other vista but still same problem... I checked all cables then remove all unncecessary things .. disabled floppy drive . use only one ram stick but still no solution .. remove external gfx card.. set onboard... i updated bios also ..did everything :(


My specs
amd a6 3670 apu
ram 4 gb
gigabyte GA a55m s2v
wd 320 gb hdrive
nvidia gtx 550ti
 
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RetiredChief

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Recommend you test the HDD.
Download UBCD iso. this will allow you to create a Bootable Ultimate Boot CD disk.
This is a great collection of utilities of which one is the WD disk utility.
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

While at it, it also has memtest 86 on the disk, s run that for a couple of hours just to verify no mem errors.
I imagine that you checked in bios under health page and verified voltages and temps look good, Just remebger this is of limited value as you should verify these under load.

Added: what is the bios set to for HDD, recommend that you set this to AHCI.
 
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Tushh Gadkar

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I also tried installing under AHCI , RAID and native ide mode.. But nothing working... also checked tempreture .. It is fine..i think Asus mb only having memory remaping feature in bios... gigabyte doesnt have... :(
 
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