It was for so much that I put Windows 7 yesterday on Gigabyte GA-M52S-S3P, AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+, 2048 Mb DDR2, Ati Radeon X1600 Pro, WDC WD6400AAKS. This is the time from inserting a disc into a DVD-ROM to the first loading of the desktop.
I, however, after that, 4 more hours of tyunil it and put the software.It all started with the fact that I decided to switch from the old 7200 to the fresh 7600.
To my great surprise, the image from the 7600 did not want to be placed directly from the DVD-ROM, requiring some drivers for the optical drive (!), Probably due to the fact that this same SATA drive, and the image a little stolen.
Then a volition was made in the MBR HDD0 to put Grub, and unpack the image 7600 directly to the second section of the HDD. Grub by the way from under Windows 7 refused to be put. Be that as it may, I thought, and I rebooted again from boot 7600.
For the second time, the installer for some reason forgot about the drivers on the optical disk, it later turned out that they were not very necessary for him.Something a lot of lyrics came out, to the point:
option 1:
1. burn the image to DVD (it seems to me that you can even on a CD - only the bootloader and the company, without install.wim)
2. on the second section of the HDD, let's say D, unpack the same image, right at the root (we will put on the first, let's say C)
3. boot from CD / DVD and set as usual. Strange as it may seem, the installer himself will find the Windows installation files on the second partition of the hard disk and will install from there and not from the DVD, thus saving a lot of time in the first stage of copying from DVD.
4. the disk is no longer needed.
five.…
6. profit
option 2:
1. on the second section of the HDD, unpack the Windows image, again, directly to the root
2. in any way we put grub in mbr, or boot from live cd
3. in the console grub'u write:
find --set-root /bootmgr
chainloader /bootmgr
four.…
5. profit
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In both methods described above, the first stage of copying files took me 4 minutes.
PS Who knows why Windows 7 during the installation did not require me to create my magic 100 MB partition (what does she keep there by the way?). Now I have only two sections and it seems like everything works.
UPD big respect and uvazhuha to those who teach her to put on the network.