Have to return to this because I am having problems with the Hdd. The Gigabyte PDF manual I downloaded states that Windows must be installed before any Giga drivers are installed, which is not what I have ever done before. So I booted and all lights lit, fans worked (hurrah!) CPU fan and VGA card spinning. Started installing Win 7/64, got to the point of changing “US” settings, KB & mouse stopped working. Couldn’t proceed with installation. “Press Ctrl-Alt-Delete to start” which I did. “Boot Mgr Missing”. Oh sh!t.
Removed Hdd and installed to my good old ICYBOX Ext. case, used CPanel-Admin Tools to check. No MBR. Does that mean same, or function same, as Boot Mgr? I formatted the Hdd again, switched off Ext. case and gave it 30 sec’s or so, restarted it. Checked Admin Tools – Disk Management and there is now a small partition containing the MBR, which I must have missed at previous format.
Problem with this build, or any such process in this tiny spare room, is limitations of space. I have to remove one system box in order to test another, and vice-versa when I need to find stuff to apply to the build. Questions: 1 – should I have ignored the Giga manual and installed the mobo drivers before installing Windows? 2 – Now that the MBR is present, can I expect to successfully install Windows?
Driving me mad: fortunately this is my son’s build and he is not worried about time. I think that the Win install fail was down to the missing MBR, but I have searched so many sources that I am now confused by MBR and Boot Mgr. Any advice is welcomed, TY guys.
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