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excaliburr

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I don't even know. I've become exhausted trying to figure this out, so now I'm looking to the forums for help. We (roommates and I) were putting this computertogether a couple of weeks ago, were getting to the windows install (but never actually installed windows), when the motherboard stopped working. So we got a replacement, the new one posts fine. We put the computer back together, boot windows from the dvd and were going through the setup. We get to custom install and windows asks us where we want to install. First off, it lists disk 0 twice. There is only one HDD, it lists the same HDD twice on this page. For both of these options. It says something like "windows unable to install on disk 0" I forget exactly, but it was something like that. All of the menu tools it normally displays like format, and partition are all unselectable. It gives that error message and I have no tools in this menu available to allow me to continue. We figure it's something with the HD so we take it to another computer, delete all the partitions and reformat it to NTFS. We then take the HD back to the new computer and try again. This time we cant even get as far as we did the first time.

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Do not reinitialize the drive or reformat it. Let the Windows Installer handle that. Only delete the partitions. It is better if Windows sees a blank unformatted drive due to the way the installer works.
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Damian007

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sound like a boot problem... try put in the windows CD--->Repair Pc`--->Cmd and Type in: bootrec /fixboot and bootrec /fixmbr when This not Help Try Reinstall it
 
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caqde

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Given the images it looks like the previous motherboard had gotten to partitioning the drive and had just gotten the boot manager on the drive. The two options you should be seeing on the windows install disk should be the partitions that Windows creates although they are likely empty. You might try deleting the partitions on the drive. The "Windows is unable to install on disk 0" commonly shows when the drive is GPT or MBR formatted when the installer is running from the opposite type of boot style (GPT -> UEFI boot, MBR -> BIOS).
 
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excaliburr

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As stated in the description, all of the partitions on the hard drive were deleted and the hard drive was reformatted. Actually, for good measure, in the command prompt on another computer, I cleaned the disk in diskpart, reinitialized the hdd, and reformatted.
 
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excaliburr

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repair pc is not an option. there actually aren't any selectable options. picture 2 and 3 are in an infinite loop with one another. picture one appears sometimes but it is less common
 
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Do not reinitialize the drive or reformat it. Let the Windows Installer handle that. Only delete the partitions. It is better if Windows sees a blank unformatted drive due to the way the installer works.
 
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excaliburr

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we ended up just splitting out parts to other builds (my roommates and I have 5 desktops, a home server, a htpc media server, and a graveyard of computer parts/junk. we had a mac mini laying around that took this computer's niche. Thanks for the advice though, caqde, I'm not sure if that was the problem but it's good to know anyways.
 
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