On 31/07/2023 in message <ua8nsa$3ao08$1@dont-email.me> Abandoned_Trolley wrote:

I am a bit reluctant to update the BIOS unless thats the only sensible
next option, but in the meantime would be interested to hear from anybody >else who has come across this problem before

I have found with some machines that you have to pull/disconnect all
storage device except the boot device before installing. Symptoms of not
doing that are an apparently successful install which on re-booting can't
find the boot device and Program Files tucked away on the "D" drive or elsewhere.

On the BIOS front I have been building PCs for 30 years and have always
updated the BIOS and never had a problem. In the good old days some things didn't work without a BIOS update!

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I am having some problems with a virgin install of Windows

(thats Win 10 21H2, Win 10 22H2 and Win 11 23H2) on a system which I
have recently built from parts.

It's an ASUS Prime B460 PLUS Motherboard, with an Intel i7 processor and
32GB of DDR4. Theres a Crucial M.2 1Tb SSD running in PCIe mode
(although this problem shows up with 2 other SATA SSDs)


Basically the install crashes out part way through with "error code
0x8007025D"


It has been suggested to me that the SSD needs to be "cleaned" and
converted to MBR and I have used diskpart to do this, but it makes no difference to the result (although subjectively it seemed to get a lot
further in to the install before crashing)


I am a bit reluctant to update the BIOS unless thats the only sensible
next option, but in the meantime would be interested to hear from
anybody else who has come across this problem before


AT


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On 31 Jul 2023 at 17:35:21 BST, "Abandoned_Trolley"
<fred@fredsmith.co.uk> wrote:

I am a bit reluctant to update the BIOS

Do it now. There should be no reluctance on this, it'll do things like
make booting from newer NVMe sticks work.

Cheers - Jaimie
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On 31/07/2023 17:35, Abandoned_Trolley wrote:

Basically the install crashes out part way through with "error code 0x8007025D"

When I google that error code, there are loads of suggestions. I don't
see what we can add?

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On 31/07/2023 18:50, GB wrote:

On 31/07/2023 17:35, Abandoned_Trolley wrote:

Basically the install crashes out part way through with "error code
0x8007025D"

When I google that error code, there are loads of suggestions. I don't
see what we can add?

yeah, I got loads of suggestions as well.

I raised the subject in here partly in the hope of finding somebody who
had the same problem AND found a solution ...



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On 7/31/23 21:32, Abandoned_Trolley wrote:

On 31/07/2023 18:50, GB wrote:

On 31/07/2023 17:35, Abandoned_Trolley wrote:

Basically the install crashes out part way through with "error code
0x8007025D"

When I google that error code, there are loads of suggestions. I don't
see what we can add?

yeah, I got loads of suggestions as well.

I raised the subject in here partly in the hope of finding somebody who
had the same problem AND found a solution ...

Dunno.

In the old days of installing Windows operating systems, with disk
system that were initially strange to windows (software RAID, AHCI, SCSI
etc), it was necessary to provide storage related drivers on some media
device (USB, floppy) before continuing on.

Is your issue similar to

Windows 10 11 SSD M.2 PCIe NVMe Not Detected How to Fix VMD Intel RST
Raid Driver Repair Install
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtU977t0MQI


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In the old days of installing Windows operating systems, with disk
system that were initially strange to windows (software RAID, AHCI, SCSI etc), it was necessary to provide storage related drivers on some media device (USB, floppy) before continuing on.

Is your issue similar to

Windows 10 11 SSD M.2 PCIe NVMe Not Detected How to Fix VMD Intel RST
Raid Driver Repair Install
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtU977t0MQI

no - the M.2 drive is detected, and I am offered various partitions and
free spaces before the install is attempted.

When it eventually crashes out, theres are a couple of partitions
created by the install process

I get exactly the same response / result from 2 other SATA SSDs, and a
SATA spinning rust drive

Also, the drives, DVDs and USB sticks are all correctly identified by
the BIOS



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On 01/08/2023 in message <uaavra$3lnl1$1@dont-email.me> Abandoned_Trolley wrote:

In the old days of installing Windows operating systems, with disk system >>that were initially strange to windows (software RAID, AHCI, SCSI etc),
it was necessary to provide storage related drivers on some media device >>(USB, floppy) before continuing on.

Is your issue similar to

Windows 10 11 SSD M.2 PCIe NVMe Not Detected How to Fix VMD Intel RST
Raid Driver Repair Install
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtU977t0MQI

no - the M.2 drive is detected, and I am offered various partitions and
free spaces before the install is attempted.

When it eventually crashes out, theres are a couple of partitions created
by the install process

I get exactly the same response / result from 2 other SATA SSDs, and a
SATA spinning rust drive

Also, the drives, DVDs and USB sticks are all correctly identified by the >BIOS

Have you tried disconnecting all drives except the install drive before installing?

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Have you tried disconnecting all drives except the install drive before installing?

Yes - single SSD on a SATA port, no DVD drive - and boot from USB stick


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On 01/08/2023 in message <uab3oe$3m5a9$1@dont-email.me> Abandoned_Trolley wrote:

Have you tried disconnecting all drives except the install drive before >>installing?

Yes - single SSD on a SATA port, no DVD drive - and boot from USB stick

OK. The other issue I have come across is confusion between MBR/GPT, BIOS/Legacy/UEFI and secure boot/no secure boot.

They all need to line up but if I try to explain you will end up
thoroughly confused so I'll leave it to others - you may not need an explanation of course!

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OK. The other issue I have come across is confusion between MBR/GPT, BIOS/Legacy/UEFI and secure boot/no secure boot.

They all need to line up but if I try to explain you will end up
thoroughly confused so I'll leave it to others - you may not need an explanation of course!

I think that may be the problem too.

I have tried using diskpart to clean the disc and convert to MBR with no
luck, so I cleaned it again and converted to GPT with the same result.

I suspect that as you say they all need to "line up" and in the meantime
I am a little reluctant to update the BIOS.

I have also tried loading Windows 7 from an install DVD, in the hope
that I could update that to W10 in situ, but that didnt get very far either.


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