- Feb 10, 2014
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ive got an old laptop. MSI GX60 and im trying to refurbish it so that i can give it to a family member.
the hardware is all good (as far as i can tell) but it refuses to accept an operating system.
ive tried win 7, win 10, linux mint, and ubuntu. win 7 just refuses to install outright giving the following error.
"windows cannot be installed to this disk the computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk ensure that the disk's controller is enabled in the computers bios menu".
but windows 10 and the linux distros will go through and fully install on the hard drive successfully with no errors. when i try to boot from the drive that the operating system was just installed on it reads that nothing is there and just goes straight to the bios boot menu or any other bootable option depending upon what is enabled in the bios. i have successfuly installed ubuntu before but once i tried to move to other operating systems it now has the same problem as the other operating systems.
what am i doing wrong? ive tried every combination of partitions and and formats and operating systems that i can think of and i still get the same result. i doubt its a bad hard drive because it reads just fine in every command line or partition wizard i use (i could be wrong) but i dont have another that i can swap out to make sure.
please help.
the hardware is all good (as far as i can tell) but it refuses to accept an operating system.
ive tried win 7, win 10, linux mint, and ubuntu. win 7 just refuses to install outright giving the following error.
"windows cannot be installed to this disk the computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk ensure that the disk's controller is enabled in the computers bios menu".
but windows 10 and the linux distros will go through and fully install on the hard drive successfully with no errors. when i try to boot from the drive that the operating system was just installed on it reads that nothing is there and just goes straight to the bios boot menu or any other bootable option depending upon what is enabled in the bios. i have successfuly installed ubuntu before but once i tried to move to other operating systems it now has the same problem as the other operating systems.
what am i doing wrong? ive tried every combination of partitions and and formats and operating systems that i can think of and i still get the same result. i doubt its a bad hard drive because it reads just fine in every command line or partition wizard i use (i could be wrong) but i dont have another that i can swap out to make sure.
please help.
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