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I BSODed the other day, no biggie just restart the computer and ill be good to go!
The problem that occured next was "No operating system found"… okay still no biggie, ill boot up some linux and snatch all mah files and then restore with Win7.

So I boot up a live-copy of ubuntu I had but when I tried to access my 750gb harddrive I get this cannot be mounted error the last boot secter failed. So I immedietly think disk repair, so I find a software in the software market of ubuntu and fix my hard disk using thatr (I can now access the drive, so I grabbed the files I wanted)…

Here are where the real problems began, I tried to restore now but now its telling me none of the paritions can be used to boot Win7.. so I decided to format them (Not sure if this was the right move, probably a dumb one) I formatted them but that still wasn't working and now they were in form of RAW instead of NTFS.

So I opened up a Command Prompt and I "format c:/fs:NTFS" Now I am getting an error telling me that it can't find my CD drive driver or any driver for that matter and its asking me to input a USB… well the Win7 is on a USB, so I am unsure why it cannot recongnize this (Might be because I deleted everything… lol)

So what should I do? I tried to re-create my master boot record (MBR) via ubuntu terminal but I don't think that did anything… cause the error I get now is no parition found.

@[XoL];

Does your usb work on a different computer? if not then you might not made the usb properly?
You could try a different port? Are you sure your booting from usb? Try to stick to USB 2.0,
and if you can, try to use a port that is solder'd directly onto the motherboard.

Run CMD as administrator:

C:\> Diskpart

DISKPART> list disk
DISKPART> select disk (id)
DISKPART> online disk (if the disk is not online)
DISKPART> attributes disk clear readonly
DISKPART> clean
DISKPART> convert mbr
DISKPART> create partition primary
DISKPART> select part 1
DISKPART> active (if this is the boot partition)
DISKPART> format fs=ntfs label=(name) quick
DISKPART> assign letter (letter)
DISKPART> list volume


That's how you create a new volume or disk to install windows from cmd.. Then just boot the USB from your bios and install..
Not sure why you need CMD though since the disk has the option to format the drive anyway?

From: Kasi
@[XoL];

Does your usb work on a different computer? if not then you might not made the usb properly?
You could try a different port? Are you sure your booting from usb? Try to stick to USB 2.0,
and if you can, try to use a port that is solder'd directly onto the motherboard.

It wasn't the USB (It worked for the most part, my computer was just not recognizing it for some odd reason)

From: Brandon
Run CMD as administrator:

C:\> Diskpart

DISKPART> list disk
DISKPART> select disk (id)
DISKPART> online disk (if the disk is not online)
DISKPART> attributes disk clear readonly
DISKPART> clean
DISKPART> convert mbr
DISKPART> create partition primary
DISKPART> select part 1
DISKPART> active (if this is the boot partition)
DISKPART> format fs=ntfs label=(name) quick
DISKPART> assign letter (letter)
DISKPART> list volume


That's how you create a new volume or disk to install windows from cmd.. Then just boot the USB from your bios and install..
Not sure why you need CMD though since the disk has the option to format the drive anyway?

So I realized the problem was the HDD itself, went out and bought an SSD and fixed a few weird bios settings and I got everything up and running again… The only sad part was going from 2TB of space to 240gig + 64gigs of SSD.