"Terry Coombs" news Sun, 16 Apr 2017 11:54:01 GMT in alt.home.repair, wrote:

It still posts , windows tries to start then goes to startup
repair . This is Win7 Pro 64 bit .

Okay.

It installed and was running , drivers were on a CD that came
with the
motherboard - Asrock N68C-GS4FX rev g/a 1.03. Problems started
after an initial round of updates from M$ update .

Ahh.. There's a work around for this very annoying issue...

http://download.wsusoffline.net/

Allow it to create an update package for you. Use the results to
bring your copy of Windows 7 uptodate, without jumping thru hoops MS
style.

Since your windows install is having problems, as long as you have
nothing of value on the drive, At this point, I'd proceed to waste it
and start over. Once you have Windows itself up and going, load your
drivers from the cdrom, and then, use the update disc you created
with the aforementioned program to bring your copy of Windows 7
uptodate.

Once you have it up and going, there's other options for more recent
drivers, but, you're going to need a usb stick and/or external hard
disc to acquire them. Let me know if you still wish to go this route
and I'll provide the gory details and the driver collection (they are
massive collections, actually; very good for techie support) software
programs I can vouch for. I don't want to overwhelm you, so we'll do
this one stage at a time.

That is, if you still wish to run Windows 7. Once again though, I do
advise against doing this as you're only delaying the inevitable.

Please post back your decision and we'll go from there. And, if you
run into any problems along the way, I'm a post away.


I didn't know it mattered which port which drive is plugged in
to with SATA , I'll check that today .

Yep, it matters. You can enter cmos setup and change the boot order
via the sata ports, if you ever wanted to do so. So you could have
one HD with Windows, and, the other with Linux, and boot either one
you liked.

When the new drive comes (unless I find a solution before) this
drive will be repartitioned before I use it anywhere else . This
comp is intended to be used as a media storage and playback device
will be hooked to my TV via a VGA to HDMI converter .

Do you intend to have it share it's contents with any other computers
local to you? IE: Are you planning to network it?


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