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1st installation of Vista - error 0x800701E7 and boot manager miss
Forgive me, I am completely new to Vista. This is my first install and my
first look the the OE. I have just built a computer - Gigabyte GA-X38-DS4 775 with a 2.44ghz quad core, 4 gb of RAM (DDR2 PC2-8500), Creative X-Fi Fatality sound card, GeForce 8600 (512mb) video, WD 1.0 Terabyte HD, WD 500gb HD, Asus DVD-ROM, WriteMaster DVD Multi Drive. You get the picture. All HD and optical drives are SATA. Anyway, upon attempting to install Vista on a clean hard drive (everything is brand new out of the box), I either get to a point where there is an error stating that the boot manager is missing or corrupt, or I can actually get to the Windows Vista screen to install and get to the point where it is expanding the files -- when this error occurs: Windows cannot access the required file D:/Sources/Install.wim. Make sure all files required for installation are available and restart the application. Error code 0x800701E7 I have looked for the SATA drivers on the mobo disk and the only ones I have found pertain to RAID, which I am not running. I want to use the 500gb drive as the primary (windows and applications) and the terabyte drive as a data drive. What am I doing wrong? I don't see any place to format the drive like you could in WinXP. I have tried going to the computer repair module, then to the command prompt and trying bcdedit as instructed in another forum. That only caused another error: "The boot configuration data store could not be opened. The system cannot find the file specified". Installing an OS should not be this difficult...but apparently I am either missing something or I have a flaky Vista disk. Please advise! Thanks. |
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1st installation of Vista - error 0x800701E7 and boot manager miss
"SDC" wrote in message ... Forgive me, I am completely new to Vista. This is my first install and my first look the the OE. I have just built a computer - Gigabyte GA-X38-DS4 775 with a 2.44ghz quad core, 4 gb of RAM (DDR2 PC2-8500), Creative X-Fi Fatality sound card, GeForce 8600 (512mb) video, WD 1.0 Terabyte HD, WD 500gb HD, Asus DVD-ROM, WriteMaster DVD Multi Drive. You get the picture. All HD and optical drives are SATA. Anyway, upon attempting to install Vista on a clean hard drive (everything is brand new out of the box), I either get to a point where there is an error stating that the boot manager is missing or corrupt, or I can actually get to the Windows Vista screen to install and get to the point where it is expanding the files -- when this error occurs: Windows cannot access the required file D:/Sources/Install.wim. Make sure all files required for installation are available and restart the application. Error code 0x800701E7 I have looked for the SATA drivers on the mobo disk and the only ones I have found pertain to RAID, which I am not running. I want to use the 500gb drive as the primary (windows and applications) and the terabyte drive as a data drive. What am I doing wrong? I don't see any place to format the drive like you could in WinXP. I have tried going to the computer repair module, then to the command prompt and trying bcdedit as instructed in another forum. That only caused another error: "The boot configuration data store could not be opened. The system cannot find the file specified". Installing an OS should not be this difficult...but apparently I am either missing something or I have a flaky Vista disk. Please advise! Thanks. You will need to load the SATA drivers at the beginning of the install when asked. Though they should be on the cd that came with your mobo...if they are not then you will need to download them from the mfg's website |
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1st installation of Vista - error 0x800701E7 and boot manager miss
Vista 64, sans updates, won't work with 4GB of RAM. What a retarded mistake MS made with that. FREE Linux 64 bit releases don't have this problem. I came here with a manager issue as well, but I thought I could throw in that one thing I know. -- wordsworm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ wordsworm's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/wordsworm.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/vista-set...all/896559.htm http://forums.techarena.in |
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1st installation of Vista - error 0x800701E7 and boot manager miss
Hi,
Vista x64 works fine with 4GB (and higher) of ram. What you may encounter during setup is a known issue with some systems when all four memory slots are filled (size of the sticks doesn't matter, it's having all slots full that is the problem). By design, some motherboards alter memory timing and this causes setup problems. In these cases simply remove two sticks and reinstall them after setup comletes. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com "wordsworm" wrote in message ... Vista 64, sans updates, won't work with 4GB of RAM. What a retarded mistake MS made with that. FREE Linux 64 bit releases don't have this problem. I came here with a manager issue as well, but I thought I could throw in that one thing I know. -- wordsworm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ wordsworm's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/wordsworm.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/vista-set...all/896559.htm http://forums.techarena.in |
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1st installation of Vista - error 0x800701E7 and boot manager miss
If you still have problems after Rick's advice, make sure SP1 is installed
if your DVD doesn't include it. "wordsworm" wrote in message ... Vista 64, sans updates, won't work with 4GB of RAM. What a retarded mistake MS made with that. FREE Linux 64 bit releases don't have this problem. I came here with a manager issue as well, but I thought I could throw in that one thing I know. -- wordsworm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ wordsworm's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/wordsworm.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/vista-set...all/896559.htm http://forums.techarena.in |
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