More Problems With The New Build. A Disk Read Error Occurred.

TraceDaBoss

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Ok, lets get started.
I build my rig and i have windows 7 on a bootable usb drive. When I plugged it in I went through the standard windows installation process and then it says where do you want to install Windows? Nothing is there and (at the time) my bios was detecting the hard drive. I read some forum pages on this and one guy said to install new sata drivers. So I went to my motherboard's website and went to m product and downloaded the official drivers, put them on a flash drive and installed them on my new rig. Now whenever I start my computer to the startup where it usually says windows is loading files and then takes me to the windows installation process but this time all it says is
"A disk read error occurred
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart"
So of course I restart my computer several times to no success. Also, I thought I should add, the bios no longer detects the hard drive.
I made sure each sata cable was connected properly and I tried switching out the sata cables. Any reason why I am getting this message? I did buy the hard drive off of eBay used becuase I found a really good deal. Could it be a defective Hard drive? Help is MUCH appreciated and if it answers my question then you get a best solution. Thanks SO much I have been having so many problems with my computer lately. Thanks for even attempting to answer :D . have a great day!
 
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You may be getting that message because your bios is set for a UEFI boot device type -- you need to use the drives in a legacy mode to install Windows 7. What is your motherboard model? For a recent motherboard, you do not need any drivers to install Windows 7 during the install unless you are using RAID or Intel SRT, so forget about those.

RealBeast

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You may be getting that message because your bios is set for a UEFI boot device type -- you need to use the drives in a legacy mode to install Windows 7. What is your motherboard model? For a recent motherboard, you do not need any drivers to install Windows 7 during the install unless you are using RAID or Intel SRT, so forget about those.
 
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TraceDaBoss

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Idk what raid even is this is my first build and I am about 12 soooo yeah. My motherboard is the 970a g43 msi mobo and. If you could provide a tutorial that would be fine and thanks so much.
 

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Where you select the boot device, make sure that it is the legacy USB choice and not the UEFI choice, same with the HDD or SSD selection. Sorry I cannot provide a tutorial as this is more of a problem solving exercise not just a how to question.

Also, did you create your USB installer using THIS Microsoft tool and instructions? If not, make a new USB installer using it.
 

TraceDaBoss

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No it was through cmd on my laptop because the USB boot thing from Microsoft was not able to find boot sect.exe and I put it in the file directory. And I already have that boot order.