Install win 7 on PC error

[TreeHike]

Trying to install Widows 7 64 bit with service pack 1 on my old PC. 

 

Set bios as UEFI and Legacy boot. 

If I set to UEFI only, my optical disk drive disappears, and windows 7 is on disc. 

 

Want to install to a 500GB SSD. Told me it's GPT so can't install to it. 

 

Set the drive to MBR, but it still said it can't install to it. 

 

It's a crucial mx500. 

 

Weirdly now, in crucial storage executive, it says firmware error for that SSD despite it not showing this just the other day. 

 

Also storage executive doesn't find any drive to sanitise, despite having 2 crucial drives. 

 

Googling it, the firmware error message is apparently a software issue with storage executive. 

 

Formatting the 500gb ssd through disk management works fine. I can see and use the drive in my windows 10 setup. 

 

How can I make sure the windows version on the disc is 64 bit with SP1? 

 

And what's the issue? Why can't I install it? 

[shoutingsteve]

do you have access to another computer with a disc drive?  There are many tools that can convert the windows installer to a USB drive, then you plug in you legit activation key when installing.

google "winToFlash" for the USB method.

[TreeHike]

47 minutes ago, shoutingsteve said:

do you have access to another computer with a disc drive?  There are many tools that can convert the windows installer to a USB drive, then you plug in you legit activation key when installing.

google "winToFlash" for the USB method.

You don't explain how that will help? 

[TreeHike]

1 hour ago, shoutingsteve said:

do you have access to another computer with a disc drive?  There are many tools that can convert the windows installer to a USB drive, then you plug in you legit activation key when installing.

google "winToFlash" for the USB method.

I built this PC in 2012. I ran windows on it for years. I never changed that uefi setting ever until today after googling for solutions. So it's not that setting that's the issue, as I never touched it ever and windows 7 installed just fine. 

[Milinko01]

inside the windows installer, if you select "Custom Installation" it will bring up a disk manager that has full access to all the partitions does the drive appear there? 

[TreeHike]

1 hour ago, Milinko01 said:

inside the windows installer, if you select "Custom Installation" it will bring up a disk manager that has full access to all the partitions does the drive appear there? 

Yes. That is where it tells me it cannot install to ANY of my drives. I have 2 drives, one with Windows 10 64 bit installed. That is a Crucial 128GB SSD. The other is a empty 500GB Crucial SSD.

[TreeHike]

Anyone? 

[Robchil]

1 hour ago, TreeHike said:

Anyone? 

I can try.. use legacy.. it's legacy system. load disk controller drivers to see m.2's at disk selection part of windows install. 

 

[TreeHike]

3 hours ago, Robchil said:

I can try.. use legacy.. it's legacy system. load disk controller drivers to see m.2's at disk selection part of windows install. 

 

I said I tried using Legacy. I also never said I have m.2. And I have NEVER had this issue before as I said I was running Windows 7 for years and years on this PC before. And I reinstalled many times over those years,

[Robchil]

2 hours ago, TreeHike said:

I said I tried using Legacy. I also never said I have m.2. And I have NEVER had this issue before as I said I was running Windows 7 for years and years on this PC before. And I reinstalled many times over those years,

mkay.. you said try.. i used to make sccm images both PE and install image of win 7. but it's starting to get a few years away.. now it's all win 10 still some and win 11. 

and m.2 ssd or sata ssd, is same same. it's all about drivers when installing. it probably won't run an m.2 nvme ssd at all.

 

as for win 7 image.. if your not sure start over and slipstream SP 1 into original image. and regenerate image.