Something's wrong... Missing partition

[Nipplemilk909]

So I nuked my HDD on my Asus u47a and went to the boot menu and my boot options skipped p1 which should be partition 1, I compared it with another Asus laptop thats listing out p0 and p1 

I have high suspicion the part I on is mussing due to infectious activity 

[Coldfuson]

P stands for priority not partition. And you don't want to boot to a nuked hard drive anyway. You need to boot to a bootable USB or CD. So the matshitadvd or usb device listed. 
After you have a boot directory on the drive it will appear again.

[Nipplemilk909]

2 minutes ago, Coldfuson said:

P stands for priority not partition. And you don't want to boot to a nuked hard drive anyway. You need to boot to a bootable USB or CD. So the matshitadvd or usb device listed. 
After you have a boot directory on the drive it will appear again.

so what would be the reason why prioity 1 is missing. i have yummy on the generic flash disk. i have a feeling that dvd dtive is fake tho like root kit fake

[Coldfuson]

1 minute ago, Nipplemilk909 said:

so what would be the reason why prioity 1 is missing. i have yummy on the generic flash disk. i have a feeling that dvd dtive is fake tho like root kit fake

You nuked the drive? There's nowhere for a rootkit to hide then. Boot priority 1 doesn't have a bootable partition on it. hence doesn't show up in the boot menu. Boot to the generic flash disk and run the windows installer. There you will be able to reformat and repartition the drive however you like. Then it will walk you through windows installation and will create a bootloader on the drive. 

[Coldfuson]

Wait its way way simpler than that. You simply don't have a Priority 1 set in your bios. You only have p0 which is your HDD and p2 as your disk drive. What other media would it have a choice to boot to? Its just ordered in the bios to skip 1 for whatever reason. Silly Asus. 

[Coldfuson]

11 minutes ago, Nipplemilk909 said:

so what would be the reason why prioity 1 is missing. i have yummy on the generic flash disk. i have a feeling that dvd dtive is fake tho like root kit fake

Also, the DVD drive is not fake. That is the same exact brand that I have in my Asus q400a

[Nipplemilk909]

1 minute ago, Coldfuson said:

Wait its way way simpler than that. You simply don't have a Priority 1 set in your bios. You only have p0 which is your HDD and p2 as your disk drive. What other media would it have a choice to boot to? Its just ordered in the bios to skip 1 for whatever reason. Silly Asus. 

i dont really see why it would skip priority for just one laptop since my other one had it, i just thought there was a root kit in my bios since then can stick in bio'es .. right? does nuking a hdd erase drivers from the mb er something, because when i run my win 10 iso i come uo with an error to select a driver to install, 

[Coldfuson]

So let me get this straight. You get to the windows installation screen and it asks you whether you want to upgrade or do a custom install. Then you select custom right?

[Nipplemilk909]

3 minutes ago, Coldfuson said:

So let me get this straight. You get to the windows installation screen and it asks you whether you want to upgrade or do a custom install. Then you select custom right?

yeah

[Coldfuson]

Then you select your hard drive, and hit the new button. Then you select the partition you just created and select format. correct?

 

 

[Nipplemilk909]

actually it doesnt ask that for the win 10 installer, i just cliked start install and i asks me for drivers 

[Coldfuson]

I literally did it last night on my laptop... It should be exactly as the video illustrates, if not you have some janky ISO and should download the ISO from the microsoft website. 

Edit: At this point you can try sending picutres of what it looks like so i can further assist.  

[Nipplemilk909]

13 hours ago, Coldfuson said:

I literally did it last night on my laptop... It should be exactly as the video illustrates, if not you have some janky ISO and should download the ISO from the microsoft website. 

Edit: At this point you can try sending picutres of what it looks like so i can further assist.  

alright lemme start from the begining to show you where im at 

 

pc in question: asus u47a 2.5ghz

end goal: really to get windows 10 for free but if need be ill get a kinguin key 

where im stuck: cant connect to the internet. 

what ive tried: windows 7 prof., wind 10 iso.

os on the sticker of machine located on bottom: windows home prem ( although i dont think this matters anymore. 

 

ok so i nuked my hdd from the laptop with dban using yummy just to clear any infections 

after nuking i tried intalling windows 7 home pre, skipped the product key went to desktop and couldnt connect to internet. 

then i tired win 10 installer iso, hit install now, gives me an option  to install drivers tells me to browse i cant get past this screen. i downloaded so many driver folders and tried installing but no luck.

the win 10 installer doesnt specify what driver it wants.  

 

[Nipplemilk909]

1 minute ago, Nipplemilk909 said:

alright lemme start from the begining to show you where im at 

 

pc in question: asus u47a 2.5ghz

end goal: really to get windows 10 for free but if need be ill get a kinguin key 

where im stuck: cant connect to the internet. 

what ive tried: windows 7 prof., wind 10 iso.

os on the sticker of machine located on bottom: windows home prem ( although i dont think this matters anymore. 

 

ok so i nuked my hdd from the laptop with dban using yummy just to clear any infections 

after nuking i tried intalling windows 7 home pre, skipped the product key went to desktop and couldnt connect to internet. 

then i tired win 10 installer iso, hit install now, gives me an option  to install drivers tells me to browse i cant get past this screen. i downloaded so many driver folders and tried installing but no luck.

the win 10 installer doesnt specify what driver it wants.  

 

 

[Coldfuson]

2 hours ago, Nipplemilk909 said:

 

Let me try and hunt it down. 

[Coldfuson]

in your bios you should have something similar to a HDD configuration. Make sure that its not set to UEFI or whatever, make sure its set to IDE/Legacy

 

[Nipplemilk909]

5 minutes ago, Coldfuson said:

in your bios you should have something similar to a HDD configuration. Make sure that its not set to UEFI or whatever, make sure its set to IDE/Legacy

 

sata configuration  was on something like ahci changed it to ide 

[Coldfuson]

1 minute ago, Nipplemilk909 said:

sata configuration  was on something like ahci changed it to ide 

http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/Drivers/IRST/IRST_Intel_Win7_64_Z11001032.zip?_ga=1.50667561.1800130127.1483463284

If all else fails, choose this drive to install. Its the Intel Rapid sotrage driver, unfortunately it only comes in the windows 7 flavor. Ill hunt down on intels website to see if they have a windows 10 version. 

 

[Nipplemilk909]

1 minute ago, Coldfuson said:

http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/Drivers/IRST/IRST_Intel_Win7_64_Z11001032.zip?_ga=1.50667561.1800130127.1483463284

If all else fails, choose this drive to install. Its the Intel Rapid sotrage driver, unfortunately it only comes in the windows 7 flavor. Ill hunt down on intels website to see if they have a windows 10 version. 

 

thanks, can i still use this for win 10 installer? or try it on the win 7 installer, not sure it the dirvers are backwards comp

[Coldfuson]

1 minute ago, Nipplemilk909 said:

thanks, can i still use this for win 10 installer? or try it on the win 7 installer, not sure it the dirvers are backwards comp

https://downloadcenter.intel.com/downloads/eula/26361/Intel-Rapid-Storage-Technology-Intel-RST-RAID-Driver?httpDown=https%3A%2F%2Fdownloadmirror.intel.com%2F26361%2Feng%2Ff6flpy-x64.zip 

this is the link to the windows 10 release directly from intel. I would try this one first, given that switching to IDE did not work. 

[Nipplemilk909]

I got the first zipped on my thumb drive should I extract it here 

[Coldfuson]

2 minutes ago, Nipplemilk909 said:

I got the first zipped on my thumb drive should I extract it here 

Yeah I forget how they install inside the installer so might as well have both the extracted and zip file