upgrade brain fart...

filip04

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• Jan 27, 2012

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Got myself a shiny new p67 evo and a 2600k but my dvd drives are ata. How the heck am I gonna install windows? LOL. I think this made my day...

Nothing more. Please discuss how I'm retarded...

 

FX4

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Quick run to best buy like I just did...

 

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filip04

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I'm thinking I can make a bootable USB windows 7 installation... If it will fit on my 4 gig drive...

 

FX4

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I don't know if you can get that on 4gigs.

 

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Diggrr

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HERE you go.
And yes, a 4G stick is all that's needed.

Have a nice day.

I have the standalone tool on my other computer, but can't distribute legally....so you get the store. Don't know if/what the charge is now.

 

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Been there, done that... left the t-shirt on the counter when I left...

Maybe someone local can let you "borrow" a sata drive?

 

Neuromancer

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• Jan 27, 2012

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You don't need a tool. Its really just a couple of steps.

Just need to format the drive (NTFS) (Many sites say do this with diskpart, an unecessary step unless running it from recovery console)
Download the Windows 7 trial from Microsoft for the version you have. Extract it to say C:\DVD

copy contents of C:\DVD to usb stick
open cmd box and naviagate to C:\DVD\boot
then type
bootsect /NT60 X: with X: being the drive letter.

Bob's your uncle

insert in target machine select the USB drive to boot first (will be listed under Hard drive priority) and restart

 

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filip04

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WinToFlash did all the work for me in 5 mouse clicks and i ended up installing win7 off the memory stick

 

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filip04 said:

Got myself a shiny new p67 evo and a 2600k but my dvd drives are ata. How the heck am I gonna install windows? LOL. I think this made my day...

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There's a chance that it has a Marvell PATA controller and one PATA port.

I do on my Asus P5QL Pro and I don't like the Marvell 88SExxxxxx PATA controller, it makes my POST slow!

 

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filip04

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It has the Marvell 6GB sata controller that slows down my post by about a second.. Not that I boot often anyways... And definitely no pata ports on the board..