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Solved My Win7 on GPT installation problem on Z68MX-UD2H-B3

Solved My Win7 on GPT installation problem on Z68MX-UD2H-B3
« on: January 26, 2012, 08:52:03 pm »
I was working on installing Windows 7 64bit on a RAID0 3TB Volume for a few hours, tried different things which didn't help me too much (apart from the diskpart command which was necessary for setting up the Volume)

after a few hours I finally got to the solution and all I can say is...

UPDATE your BIOS to the latest because my shipped version (F4) just didn't boot with EFI at all... whoops!

hope this helps anyone

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Re: Solved My Win7 on GPT installation problem on Z68MX-UD2H-B3
« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2012, 12:30:29 am »
Thanks for the info! I'm sure it'll help someone  ;D
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Re: Solved My Win7 on GPT installation problem on Z68MX-UD2H-B3
« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2012, 02:49:34 am »
The first thing one should do right after buying hardware (especially a motherboard) is download all firmware updates, drivers, and read patch notes/change logs.  The CD you get with hardware is already out of date; don't bother with it.

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Re: Solved My Win7 on GPT installation problem on Z68MX-UD2H-B3
« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2012, 02:10:41 pm »
The first thing one should do right after buying hardware (especially a motherboard) is download all firmware updates, drivers, and read patch notes/change logs.  The CD you get with hardware is already out of date; don't bother with it.

This is standard advice and always is a good start. Never rely on the media that comes with the card/board as it is always out of date before you even get it.
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