I recently helped a friend to build a new pc, so as it's not installing windows 7 properly, I feel obliged to help.
When they originally tried to install windows, the computer was knocked over and turned off. It then encountered a boot.mgr missing problem on startup.
I went around to fix this by booting from the CD drive, deleting everything on th4 hard disk, creating a new 100mb partition, and then installing windows. It is here it encounters error 0x80070057 "Windows could not format a partition on disk 0" It then returns to the windows install menu, but the hard disk has disappeared from the install location menu.
Thanks for any help with this.
UPDATE:
Orignally I could access the hard disk in Windows setup, but now has completely disappeared from the install menu. It says there are no drivers found to install windows on.
The motherboard type is a GA-M68MT-D3P and in the Bios settings under standard CMOS features, the manual shows there should be 4 IDE channel masters to select an HDD from, however in this Bios, there is 3 pairs of Master and Slave, I don't know if this has stopped the motherboard recognising there is an HDD attached or is related at all?
I am really hoping the HDD isn't busted, but do people think this is the most likely cause?
When they originally tried to install windows, the computer was knocked over and turned off. It then encountered a boot.mgr missing problem on startup.
I went around to fix this by booting from the CD drive, deleting everything on th4 hard disk, creating a new 100mb partition, and then installing windows. It is here it encounters error 0x80070057 "Windows could not format a partition on disk 0" It then returns to the windows install menu, but the hard disk has disappeared from the install location menu.
Thanks for any help with this.
UPDATE:
Orignally I could access the hard disk in Windows setup, but now has completely disappeared from the install menu. It says there are no drivers found to install windows on.
The motherboard type is a GA-M68MT-D3P and in the Bios settings under standard CMOS features, the manual shows there should be 4 IDE channel masters to select an HDD from, however in this Bios, there is 3 pairs of Master and Slave, I don't know if this has stopped the motherboard recognising there is an HDD attached or is related at all?
I am really hoping the HDD isn't busted, but do people think this is the most likely cause?
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