Creating a new partition on Drive 1 doesn't create the expected "System Reserved" 100mb partition on the same drive. It creates it on Drive 0! The installation proceeds but upon reboot the ultrabook will not boot! This cycle repeats with various attempts to patch it on my part (including manually partitioning via diskpart).
The solution? Load the "SATA AHCI Controller Drivers" before partitioning the drives. Once the drivers have been loaded the much bigger spin drive shows up as Drive 0 and Windows installs properly. The drivers are in the files\irst\Drivers\x64 folder of the driver download self-extracting executable. The necessary drivers can be downloaded from Fujitsu's mobile support website.
*whew* For a few hours this ultrabook was looking like it'd be a glorified paperweight...
OMG Thank you so much! I was ripping my hair out trying to figure this out and I also thought I had a glorified paper weight!
ReplyDeleteThanks for this article! But it took me another two hours to solve the problem that my Lifebook/Windows 7 wouldn't accept additional SATA drivers for the installation. The solution was so simple: I tried to install Windows 7 from an USB 3.0 stick with the USB 3 ports on the left side. As soon as I swapped the same stick to the USB 2 port on the right side everything went smooth ...
ReplyDeleteyou know, at the time I did this I didn't have a usb 3.0 stick so didn't encounter this. But I totally believe it, usb 3.0 is pretty new, usually takes a while for drivers to get the kinks worked out.
DeleteI still want to see how long an install takes with usb 3.0 though :)
Cheers for a good post! Been cursing fujitsu while trying to do a clean win7-install.. You're a life-saver! (or, "hour-saver").. :)
ReplyDeleteGlad to help :)
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