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Douglas Morrison

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I have built a computer using a combination of old and new parts.
Asrock mobo h61m-s,
I5 3470 CPU,
500w PSU
6gb ram
500gb hhd
I have tried installing windows 7 64 bit and failed at 53%.
Tried swapping other parts:
5 different hard drives
SATA cables
PSU
Tried installing from usb and dvd,
Tried an old vista disk and usb,
Tried win7,8+10 disk and usb
Every single path i try has the same result, "windows cannot copy files required for installation." And various 0x800 codes.
The system has no previous build to recover to. It has no drivers for cd drive, ethernet etc
What on earth is preventing me from moving forward. Would a 32bit install work because I'm going to try that next lol.
Thank in advance for any help.
 
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Its a hardware problem of some type as well, you tried the last 4 versions of windows and had same error every time.. consistent. This guy had similar problems with that motherboard - http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2812696/installing-winxp-asrock-h61m-itx.html

Do you have any external drives or other USB devices attached? a card reader?

Could try installing linux and see if it has any difficulties. NOt that it helps you install win 10 but two different OS not installing would lend wait to it not being a windows problem exclusively

There is only 1 bios for motherboard so I assume you have version 1.80. There are drivers for Win 10 so its not a chipset limitation.
are drives set to AHCI in Bios?
 
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The only usb connections I use currently are the boot usb and a wireless keyboard/mouse combo.
Confirmed bios is 1.8
I have noticed the bios seems to constantly overwrite my custom settings. Fans are switching from auto to full on and ahci swaps to ide connection. Would a bad CMOS battery have that effect perhaps?

Many thanks for all your help
 
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Swapped a new battery but still no joy. Settings are staying as they are now at least.
I've disconnected the cd drive so only the hhd and 2 fans are connected to the board.
I connected the hard drive to another computer and it showed without a problem.
I'm starting to wonder if my mobo is damaged somehow which would suck as I have no warranty with it.
 
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Is it the same USB drive each time? I know you tried DVD as well, just thinking that the drivers it needs are for the USB. I know some USB drives can create errors like this, Sandisk ones sometimes appear as external hdd to PC instead of USB sticks.

Is DVD drive internal or USB?

Are you using USB 2 slots? Never mind that, it seems that is all you have anyway
Are you using the slots on back of case? I see you have 6. Was hoping motherboard had two controllers and it was just using the wrong ones, doesn't seem the case.
 
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Dvd drive is internal and now unplugged lol.
Tried 2/3 different usb drives with no luck.
I tried installing Ubuntu but no luck as the system would instantly jump to windows bcd missing.
I have found a listing in boot list called uefi:usb....
I set that first and Ubuntu is flying through a possible install.
Which has just confirmed as fully functional
 
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Looks to me like its a BIOS setting.

Here is your manual - http://asrock.pc.cdn.bitgravity.com/Manual/H61M-S.pdf - have a look on page 51 and see if changing Legacy USB Support to UEFI setup only lets you run the win 10 installer and get past that error.

Did you ever try to install win 10 using the uefi:usb option? there are two boot methods, legacy that matches every other version of windows except win 8 & 10 64bit, and then there is UEFI which is new, and might not ask for a driver. Make sure drivers set toi AHCI in BIOS (see page 33 of manual)

Linux works so its not hardware... and I don't believe 4 versions of windows are all broken :)
 
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ubuntu still working without a hitch.
managed to get rufus to create a uefi windiws 10 usb.
same problem yet again.
i assume now this windows copy is somehow corrupt or incomplete so i'm going to source a fresh licenced copy and try again

thanks for your insight
 
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IF you can get installer to work, your licence should be fine. You shouldn't need a new license

This is an installer problem, its not even getting to point you enter a license code in so any key you have now should be okay. You already tried 3 USB, unlikely a 4th will make any difference.

Don't waste money on windows you already own.
 
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i've found discussions where its mentioned that downloading the genuine iso from ms can still have corruptions, and to use a stand alone download manager to ensure the files are ok?
other than a genuine file corruption of some sort i'm totally stuck. i've even stripped my ram down to 2Gb as someone said that was a cure.
i've tried pulling all usb's at install just in case.
i've tried swapping various bios/uefi settings
i just cannot see what the problem is.
i think i noticed a warning in linux terminal saying something about "secondary gpt is corrupt, primary is ok"
ive never used linux until now so im very unsure what im doing there.
 
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