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alrasl   08-01-2008 at 07:14:55 AM

Built my new desktop, all the components (seemingly) work fine. I'm fairly novice, but I successfully built my last desktop. Asus mobo recgonized all the hardware in the BIOS. Went to install Vista next, got this error:

Windows cannot acess the required file D:\Sources\Install.wim Make sure all files required for installation are available, and restart installation. Error code: 0x800701E7

D: should be my hard-drive, I haven't set any drive names... think that's the HD default. Using a 500gb Seagate Barracuda SATA 3.0gb/s. Mobo is an Asus PQ5 P45.

Anyone know what could be causing this error? If you need more info, ask away. Not sure what's relavent and not.

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notherdude   08-01-2008 at 02:40:14 PM
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with an optical drive and one hard drive installed D:\ should be your optical drive and C\: should be your hard drive. So the system appears to be having a hard time reading from the dvd drive. This could be a bad/dirty Vista DVD or it could be an issue with the drive itself. If the disc is not dirty or scratched then you need to explore the drive issues.

Is this a SATA DVD drive or an IDE drive? If it is SATA you might want to replace it with a good old IDE drive for installation purposes. That has helped quite a few people get Vista installed.

If the drive is SATA then be sure to connect it to a standard SATA port and not a RAID enabled port and also go into BIOS and set your SATA controller to "IDE mode".


Message edited by notherdude on 08-01-2008 at 02:40:56 PM
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notherdude u have an old hand. Having an old hand doesnt make sence. Cuz its old. get a new one.. seems like ur hand doesnt understand what it is writing. So placve it in ur rig instead of vista human orgnoids will amke more sense
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alrasl   08-01-2008 at 11:09:05 PM
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The Vista DvD is legitimate, ordered it from Newegg. It doesn't seem to be scratched or damage in any way.

I saw something on another forum that the fact that I have a SATA hard drive, and an IDE DvD drive could be causing the problem with the install. Switching to a SATA DvD drive might solve my issue. Can anyone back this as a possible solution?

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notherdude   08-02-2008 at 12:09:20 AM
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alrasl wrote :

The Vista DvD is legitimate, ordered it from Newegg. It doesn't seem to be scratched or damage in any way.

I saw something on another forum that the fact that I have a SATA hard drive, and an IDE DvD drive could be causing the problem with the install. Switching to a SATA DvD drive might solve my issue. Can anyone back this as a possible solution?



Doubt that, never heard of it. But you should try another DVD drive on general principle at this point since there is some problem perhaps with reading from it. Could be a driver issue between the Vista installer and the drive perhaps. I can't tell you how many of these problems I have seen get cleared up by switching DVD drives. However, it is usually the other way around with the fix being using an IDE/PATA instead of a SATA.;

Be sure your SATA hard drive is on a regular SATA port and not one that is RAID enabled and be sure that in the BIOS the SATA controller is set to "IDE mode". These issues come up a lot on abortive Vista installs.

------------------------------ tehhardpro wrote :


notherdude u have an old hand. Having an old hand doesnt make sence. Cuz its old. get a new one.. seems like ur hand doesnt understand what it is writing. So placve it in ur rig instead of vista human orgnoids will amke more sense
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