Need Win 7 Pro with SPck1 or higher ISO
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Thank you mate
Apparently protected by a password if you don't mind sharing that as well
Humm!
This one is one crazy project
Motherboard is MSI B250I GAMING PRO (MS-7A67)
Was running Win 7 Pro x64 UEFI.
Windows is corrupt for some reasons and cannot be repaired so N&P.
Problem is it's asking for AHCI (I presume) drivers to find any type of drive, HDD or SSD.
Can't find any anywhere and it fails to detect USB drives when asking for drivers.
Tried adding some random drivers I found on the net in the C drive (offline). It said they're no good.
Tried getting it to find the drivers in the inf folder of the current installation, none applies.
Win10 has no trouble finding the drive and installing.
This is a mechanic's workshop PC and I assume their software might have issues with Win10 maybe why they're sticking with 7
This one is one crazy project
Motherboard is MSI B250I GAMING PRO (MS-7A67)
Was running Win 7 Pro x64 UEFI.
Windows is corrupt for some reasons and cannot be repaired so N&P.
Problem is it's asking for AHCI (I presume) drivers to find any type of drive, HDD or SSD.
Can't find any anywhere and it fails to detect USB drives when asking for drivers.
Tried adding some random drivers I found on the net in the C drive (offline). It said they're no good.
Tried getting it to find the drivers in the inf folder of the current installation, none applies.
Win10 has no trouble finding the drive and installing.
This is a mechanic's workshop PC and I assume their software might have issues with Win10 maybe why they're sticking with 7
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Did you turn off secure boot? Then change UEFI to legacy boot?Humm!
This one is one crazy project
Motherboard is MSI B250I GAMING PRO (MS-7A67)
Was running Win 7 Pro x64 UEFI.
Windows is corrupt for some reasons and cannot be repaired so N&P.
Problem is it's asking for AHCI (I presume) drivers to find any type of drive, HDD or SSD.
Can't find any anywhere and it fails to detect USB drives when asking for drivers.
Tried adding some random drivers I found on the net in the C drive (offline). It said they're no good.
Tried getting it to find the drivers in the inf folder of the current installation, none applies.
Win10 has no trouble finding the drive and installing.
This is a mechanic's workshop PC and I assume their software might have issues with Win10 maybe why they're sticking with 7
Thx Mark
Yep, tried on legacy with the aim of converting once done, same thing.
Weird thing is driver should be in the INF folder of the original setup? or where else potentially?
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This is not making any sense. Not being critical of @fincoder but it sounds like there is something not right about the ISO. W7 Pro with SP's up to 2018 should have every INF needed to "see" the drives. I just check around and I found a W7 pro 64 most likely from way back when technet was alive. I'll PM you a link to download and try it once it's upon my site. Ignore the cert warning. It's my personal server so I'm not going to mess with buying and maintaining a cert.
What do you mean by that please?
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The Intel B250 chipset does support Windows 7.
You're missing a storage controller driver, that's why you cannot find the C drive.
Normally I'd suggest getting the Intel Mass Storage driver out and try that AND that board has Optane support... but that bit will NOT work on Windows 7.
I would instead check the BIOS for storage configurations, you're looking for a setting that lets you swap between AHCI, IDE, and RAID typically. It's currently set to either RAID or AHCI, and you want it to be IDE Emulation.
Yes, that will reduce the performance of the NVME or SATA SSD in the platform, but it's also VASTLY more supportable and you'll find it more stable.
Once the platform is online, you may be able to locate with the Intel driver tool the correct rapid storage technology driver for that older chipset and platform. The problem is this driver is RARE, because all Windows 8 and 10 platforms have it baked in. I can't identify it accurately even with the mainboard's model, and the MSI website while it provides a chipset download doesn't provide a storage download.
It's going to be much easier to just make it IDE emulation and move on. The performance loss won't cost much for a platform intended to run older software anyway.
You're missing a storage controller driver, that's why you cannot find the C drive.
Normally I'd suggest getting the Intel Mass Storage driver out and try that AND that board has Optane support... but that bit will NOT work on Windows 7.
I would instead check the BIOS for storage configurations, you're looking for a setting that lets you swap between AHCI, IDE, and RAID typically. It's currently set to either RAID or AHCI, and you want it to be IDE Emulation.
Yes, that will reduce the performance of the NVME or SATA SSD in the platform, but it's also VASTLY more supportable and you'll find it more stable.
Once the platform is online, you may be able to locate with the Intel driver tool the correct rapid storage technology driver for that older chipset and platform. The problem is this driver is RARE, because all Windows 8 and 10 platforms have it baked in. I can't identify it accurately even with the mainboard's model, and the MSI website while it provides a chipset download doesn't provide a storage download.
It's going to be much easier to just make it IDE emulation and move on. The performance loss won't cost much for a platform intended to run older software anyway.
There's no option to set it as IDE.
Only AHCI - RAID
Weird as the original setup as received is Win7.
I have been able with other cases to pick the driver of the initial installation and that had allowed to delete all partitions and restart afresh.
Not in this case
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Yes, and again that means you're missing a driver. The problem is FINDING said driver. When an OS is out of support, this is exactly what it means... it's NOT SUPPORTED. So good luck finding it.
Downloaded this one and it still didn't work:
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Of course it didn't, it's for a different main board entirely, not only a different model but a different manufacturer.
This isn't a game of guess and check, there is one specific driver for that SATA controller, and worse there is one specific driver for the NVME device if you're trying to use one. Using the wrong one results in things not working AND the manufacturers have all pulled the downloads for Windows 7. You can't just pull software from random places and expect things to work.
You're assuming the drive controller is Intel... we don't know that. I have no clue what MSI put on that board, and the documentation on their website is crap.
Brain wave... try booting a live linux on it, and get the output of lspci -vvv
Hopefully that will reveal the drive controller in use, this will only work if the live linux can mount the drive in the unit...
This isn't a game of guess and check, there is one specific driver for that SATA controller, and worse there is one specific driver for the NVME device if you're trying to use one. Using the wrong one results in things not working AND the manufacturers have all pulled the downloads for Windows 7. You can't just pull software from random places and expect things to work.
You're assuming the drive controller is Intel... we don't know that. I have no clue what MSI put on that board, and the documentation on their website is crap.
Brain wave... try booting a live linux on it, and get the output of lspci -vvv
Hopefully that will reveal the drive controller in use, this will only work if the live linux can mount the drive in the unit...
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While futzing around I came across the link below for the Wayback Machine (aka arcvhive.org). They've conveniently made a page with links for both Apple and MS.
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Another OS disk image isn't going to help. That is a 7th generation iSeries, Windows 7 simply doesn't have the drivers to access the storage, and it never will unless they are manually slip-streamed into the media.
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Below from the OS installation part of the MB manual.
It's an official Microsoft ISO retrieved by the heidoc ISO downloader before it became unavailable. The updates to 2018 were added by Microsoft to prevent the update server problem that I don't think was ever fixed. Updates to Windows 7 did not include driver updates, that was introduced in Windows 10.
Thanks folks for all the inputs.
I have used regularly drivers from one manufacturer to another for the same chipset and it had worked.
Not in this case.
I've asked the client to contact their original supplier for the drivers.
I've already spent way too much time on this project that I won't be able to recover.
If they can't get it, I call it quit as there are other money making jobs on the bench.
I'll report on the outcome if anything different.
I have used regularly drivers from one manufacturer to another for the same chipset and it had worked.
Not in this case.
I've asked the client to contact their original supplier for the drivers.
I've already spent way too much time on this project that I won't be able to recover.
If they can't get it, I call it quit as there are other money making jobs on the bench.
I'll report on the outcome if anything different.
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