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 drive missing for fitPC2 w/ Windows 7 Pro install 
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Post drive missing for fitPC2 w/ Windows 7 Pro install
Hello everyone,

can someone please show me any step by step tutorial for installing Windows 7 Pro on a brand new fitPC2 ?

I have the new machine set up, but when I try to install Windows it cannot find a harddrive to install on. I'm using the diskless drive version.

I'm using a USB dvdr drive to install Windows 7 and it recognizes it just fine.

When I get to the step of Win7 install to pick a drive to install on, there is no option. If I then click the add driver options, an X drive shows up with various folders inside of it.....but this does not appear as a drive I can install on.

I need your help getting this one started. Thanks,


Wed Oct 05, 2011 6:07 pm
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Post Re: drive missing for fitPC2 w/ Windows 7 Pro install
Dear Aaron

Have you installed your own HDD into FitPC2 prior Win7 installation?
Can you see it from BIOS menu?

Thanks

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Gabriel Heifets

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Thu Oct 06, 2011 9:56 am
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Post Re: drive missing for fitPC2 w/ Windows 7 Pro install
I am working with the fitPC2 directly out of the box. I have added nothing to the device of my own or third party.

The BIOS shows this under its menus :

MAIN > Primary Master > None

MAIN > BIOS Date 5/12/10

BOOT > Boot Priority order >
1: IDE HDD:
2: USB CDROM:
3: USB KEY:
4: USB HDD:
5. SD CARD:
6:
7:
8:
Excluded from boot order:
: USB FDC:



I was only using an external hard drive in an attempt to load drivers, but that didnt help.


Thu Oct 06, 2011 4:43 pm
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Post Re: drive missing for fitPC2 w/ Windows 7 Pro install
ok great
the answer would be that there is no disc included with this version of fitPC2
excellent.


Thu Oct 06, 2011 5:04 pm
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Post Re: drive missing for fitPC2 w/ Windows 7 Pro install
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I'm using the diskless drive version


Diskless versions of FitPC2 comes without of the HDD or SSD drive installed as the primary storage, so if you want to install a Windows 7 on it, you should provide primary storage of your own firstly

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Sun Oct 09, 2011 6:10 am
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