Day 2 at CDOT

Installing Windows - Day 2 - BBB

Problem:

Error 1: No drives were found
Error 2: Bootmgr is missing Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart

Solution:

1. For my motherboard, I needed to use the AHCI SATA port type
2. The SATA ports my hard drive were physically connected to weren't enabled in the BIOS settings, so it wasn't recognizing the hard drives

My Process:

Windows installation started (but no option to start from USB/disk) Chose language English.

Gave me the error: No drives were found

Tried: http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/no-drives-were-found

Following the instructions, I cleaned Disk 0

But then I found that it was actually the USB drive that I erased! (Which contained the .iso image for Windows7) So I had to burn the .iso onto the USB again using Rufus, but this time with FAT32 because you need to use FAT32 rather than NTFS when using a UEFI bios.


This time it gave me the error:
Bootmgr is missing Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart

So I went into BIOS settings by mashing F2, F8, F10, F12 as soon as I turned on the computer.
In BIOS settings:

1. Made sure that USB is the primary method of installation
2. Checked the RAM using the BIOS check (returned okay)
3. Quick checked the HardDrive using the BIOS check (returned okay)

Finally I found this link that gave me the solution:
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1819019/windows-install-detect-hard-drive-bios.html


After I enabled the all SATA drives in BIOS and changed the SATA port type to AHCI, it worked! Next time I booted up the computer it asked me to press any key to start from USB and once I started Windows installation it was able to find the hard drives. The reasons for the fix were:
1. For my motherboard, I needed to use the AHCI SATA port type
2. The SATA ports my hard drive were physically connected to weren't enabled in the BIOS settings, so it wasn't recognizing the hard drives

Comments

Unknown said…
Be honest, I don't know how to fix hardware issues. How good you are.
BTW, good design for the navigation bar : )
Laily Ajellu said…
Thanks Eric! Working at CDOT was my first experience with hardware too, so don't worry, you can learn anytime :)

As for the nav bar, I was thinking of making each category a drop down menu and then making the nav bar scroll with you as you scroll down the page. What do you think?

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