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hypakz

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So my first hard drive on my build has a bad capacitor and is slowly dying. I can still use my computer, but when the capacitor finally dies I won't be able to access windows. I RMA'd it and when i received my second hard drive I found that it was formatted as RAW and I could not get it to work, so i had to RMA that one. I still have my original hard drive, and i can still use my computer. My question is, what can i do if i get my third hard drive, but my first hard drive (with the os) has finally died? How do i initialize the new hard drive in order to use it?

All i need to do is reinstall windows. I dont care about cloning my drive, I just want to initialize the new one and freshly install windows. Can this be done without needed to use my current (and dying) hard drive?
 
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hypakz

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I thought you had to initialize the drive using disk manager first before it was capable of having Windows installed on it. Is that not the case?
 
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The Windows install routine will take care of that.
 
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Solution here /\ :)
 
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hypakz

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Hi guys i'm still having huge issues.

If i try to format using the windows install disk it tells me that windows fails to partition the disk and gives me an error code 0x80070002. To combat this I boot windows on my old drive with the new one also connected and initialize the new drive from disk management. Then I can boot from the CD and attempt to install windows.

Then I get more problems. I get various errors throughout the install, the most recent being "windows could not set the offline locale information. error code 0x80ff0000.

I thought it might be my disk. Or my CD drive. Or my sata cable. So i made an iso file from a windows 7 iso i got online and put it on my usb drive. I then boot from that. I still get errors throughout the process and windows will not install.

What is going on? If i put my old (and dying) hard drive in windows will load fine, but i cannot install a new version on either of my 2 drives that i got in my RMA.

Do you think it could be something with the motherboard? I have no idea anymore and i'm out of options. The hard drives are exactly the same and i'm using 2 sticks of identical ram. Any ideas?
 
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