All,
My son and I wanted to tackle our first ever computer build over the Holidays. Everything works, but we cannot load Windows 8 as the OS on a clean install.
How do I how to update the bios and drivers for the motherboard and HDD without having an OS on the computer? I also do not know where to get the SATA drivers for the WD HDD.
I have converted the HDD to GPT as I was getting that error code. Also Windows doesn't create the partitions necessary for the load....sometimes it creates 2 partitions, sometimes 4. After researching multiple sites, I'm thinking it should create 5 partitions prior to loading windows. Anyway, I believe the problem is not having current bios and HDD drivers. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Here is the full error code: "Windows 8 could not format a partition on disk 0. The error occurred while preparing the partition for installation. Error code 0x80070057.
Thanks
Here is our system:
ASUS M5A97 R2.0 AM3+ AMD 970 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
AMD FD6300WMHKBOX FX-6300 6-Core Processor Black Edition
Thermaltake V3 Black AMD Edition No Power Supply Mid Tower Case, Black VL800P1W2N
EVGA GeForce GTX 650 Ti SSC 2048MB GDDR5 128bit, Dual Dual-Link DVI, Mini HDMI, Graphics Card (01G-P4-3653-KR) Graphics Cards 02G-P4-3653-KR
Asus 24x DVD-RW Serial-ATA Internal OEM Optical Drive DRW-24B1ST (Black)
Antec VP-450 450 Watt Energy Star Certified Power Supply
WD Blue 1 TB Desktop Hard Drive: 3.5 Inch, 7200 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64 MB Cache - WD10EZEX
Windows 8
My son and I wanted to tackle our first ever computer build over the Holidays. Everything works, but we cannot load Windows 8 as the OS on a clean install.
How do I how to update the bios and drivers for the motherboard and HDD without having an OS on the computer? I also do not know where to get the SATA drivers for the WD HDD.
I have converted the HDD to GPT as I was getting that error code. Also Windows doesn't create the partitions necessary for the load....sometimes it creates 2 partitions, sometimes 4. After researching multiple sites, I'm thinking it should create 5 partitions prior to loading windows. Anyway, I believe the problem is not having current bios and HDD drivers. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Here is the full error code: "Windows 8 could not format a partition on disk 0. The error occurred while preparing the partition for installation. Error code 0x80070057.
Thanks
Here is our system:
ASUS M5A97 R2.0 AM3+ AMD 970 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
AMD FD6300WMHKBOX FX-6300 6-Core Processor Black Edition
Thermaltake V3 Black AMD Edition No Power Supply Mid Tower Case, Black VL800P1W2N
EVGA GeForce GTX 650 Ti SSC 2048MB GDDR5 128bit, Dual Dual-Link DVI, Mini HDMI, Graphics Card (01G-P4-3653-KR) Graphics Cards 02G-P4-3653-KR
Asus 24x DVD-RW Serial-ATA Internal OEM Optical Drive DRW-24B1ST (Black)
Antec VP-450 450 Watt Energy Star Certified Power Supply
WD Blue 1 TB Desktop Hard Drive: 3.5 Inch, 7200 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64 MB Cache - WD10EZEX
Windows 8
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- windows 8
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- AMD
- CPU
- FX-6300
- Motherboard
- ASUS M5A97 R2.0
- Memory
- 8GB DDR3
- Graphics Card(s)
- GT650TI
- Browser
- internet explorer
- Antivirus
- McAfee