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    MartinWilson is offline Senior Member
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    Default Ineffective to make system partition

    I'm presently on windows 7, i got an very continual trojan, and i screwed up chrome, and But All time try to run the installation i get one of two problems. The first has mostly settled, when i try to run the setup i will get the error message setup unable to retrieve information about disks on this computer" or something like that. That has stopped happening fo no approach reason, but now when i acquire to the section where i chose which partition i want to install windows in, i don't see the local disk, E:, F: and my external hard drive show up, but not C:. I'm using the accurate similar disk i used to upgrade from XP to windows 7.

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    as trying to do a Clean install, I would unplug any external hard drives.
    Is the computer drive IDE or SATA?

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    I m trying to do a fresh install, actually i just want to start over.I tried that, didn't modify anything. both discs are SATA .

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    I have asked you that Are they connected through SATA PCI card or connected straight to the motherboard?

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    I have never used the BIOS earlier so im not actually sure what to do, the part you were reporting is in the thumbnail, how should i change it? to what you discovered first Boot drive/ CD/DVD Rom, second Boot drive the drive you intention to do the installation on, third Boot drive/ Floppy or Disabled.

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    if those disks are SATA, confirm you have the SATA drivers in your installation disk, if you don't have it, setup cannot stay and will not find the hard drives.

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    There should be some other setting for Hard Disk Drives, this is where you need to choose the drive you intention to install Windows 7 on, to be the first drive on the list, unless you only have 1 physical drive, in which case it will not show that setting. recall to save the settings when exiting the BIOS. You should be able to start the installation process now

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