Error 0x80070570 on new SSD install

frozenfrozen · 27-05-2013 03:54PM #1

I'm trying to install windows 7 and I'm getting the error 0x80070570.

This computer has windows 7 installed and running already on a Samsung 830. Lately I was running into problems with 2 minute boot times and lots of graphics driver crashes, instead of trying to troubleshoot those issues and the few other little things (Namely bold fonts looking horrendous and unreadable in browers) I decided to reinstall. I've a samsung 840 pro in the system already effectively as storage, so I decided to use that as my new OS drive.

So: Windows 7 installed and working on 830, I want to move to a fresh install on the 840 pro.

I quick formatted the 840 pro. I plugged out the 830, booted into windows install (on a USB stick) and when I start installing to the 840 which shows as the only storage device, I get the above error.

This computer is a 3930k on a sabertooth X79, 32GB ram (4GB x 8 sticks), and a gtx 580. I found that one of my sticks of ram went a bit dodgy a few months ago, and only showed 30GB of ram usable on the pc, haven't had the chance to send the particular stick back since, so I left it going. After running into this problem installing the first thing I did was remove 4 sticks, including the dodgy stick. The problem persisted.

So basically I'm stuck here with a still working windows 7 install, and a now blank samsung 840 pro which I want windows to install on.

Other fixes I've tried have been simply retrying the installer, which apparently happened for half of all the other people effected by this error that I've seen on other forums, and the other fix is changing the boot order to favour the drive being installed to. Both of which did not work. I'm about to format the 840 pro in the same way I formatted the USB stick just in case there are some left over files on the drive.

Anyone have any ideas?

Serephucus · 27-05-2013 04:45PM

First Google result says to simply hit cancel on the dialog box with the error. You get dumped back to the installer main screen, and just reinstall from there without rebooting, and it goes fine.

frozenfrozen · 27-05-2013 05:08PM

Serephucus wrote: »

First Google result says to simply hit cancel on the dialog box with the error. You get dumped back to the installer main screen, and just reinstall from there without rebooting, and it goes fine.

Tried that and unfortunately it doesn't work for me. I'm going to update my bios as I've still got the original version 1104 running. Might fix some of the other little issues I'm having anyway, just hope it doesn't take more functionality away.

ED E · 27-05-2013 08:43PM

Try a new USB key freshly written as a boot disk just to be sure thats not the source.

frozenfrozen · 27-05-2013 08:59PM

Just tried a different usb stick there still not working. Just plugged the SSD into my laptop using a usb connector that I got with the samsung 830 and it's not being read -- but the 830 is being read when I plug it in. Maybe I've done something to the 840..?

ED E · 27-05-2013 09:43PM

Does disk management see it at all?

frozenfrozen · 27-05-2013 10:02PM

It does now, with a lot of plugging in and out I was able to get it to detect on the laptop and used disk utility (mac) to erase and format, it was then detected on the pc, wouldn't install because it wasn't ntfs, so used diskpart to clean, make 1 partition, mark that partition as active and format it to ntfs -- still no install. Now in windows it can be read, it has a my documents folder and one other windows related folder from the attempted installations but im still really not any closer to getting this to work. I've the leaving cert next week so can't really be messing around with this too much. May try update firmware on the 840 pro and see if that works at all. Shouldn't make a difference as the drive works perfectly from inside windows. May also try removing all hdds/ssd, reset cmos and pretend its the absolute first time the pc has been booted up so there's no weird boot preference or anything messing with it. I'm really quite clueless as to what the problem it. I bet it's going to turn out to be something silly like bad ram sticks which I'll be RMA'ing in the near future anyway, really as soon as I can organize an advance rma from G.skill.

ED E · 27-05-2013 10:14PM

You have two SATA controllers on that board, might be worth giving the other one a shot.

BloodBath · 28-05-2013 12:17AM

The board has 2 sata 600 connections. I assume you have both ssd's connected to these with sata 600 cables.

-edit Nm it has 4 on 2 different controllers as Ed said. Grey and brown ports.

It shouldn't cause the issue above but still worth checking.

Have you tried disconnecting all drives except for the 840 and installing that way.

frozenfrozen · 28-05-2013 04:38PM

Ok so I've just tried a few things and none of it has worked.

When switching to the different storage controller I noticed that one of the motherboard screws was just resting at an angle on the inside of the standoff, and that the inner thread of the standoff has been removed, I checked and it is definitely only one screw that is like this. Don't really know how this would happen but there we go. After putting everything back the way it was I now have a VGA_LED on. Meaning there's something up with the graphics card. This could be due to the fact that after that motherboard screw was removed the board is seated a little bit differently? The majority of new build problems are caused by not using all of the motherboard standoffs, so this could be like that. (This build has been running without any real problems for 11 months, except for the graphics card issues i had for the first few months and the few problems I've had recently.)

What was a simple want to reinstall windows seems to have led me to need to RMA at least the RAM so far, and now possibly the GPU and or motherboard, too. Oh and maybe that 840 pro needs to go back also..... And I got one of the many dodgy corsair h100s which needs to be RMA'd also.

I have very limited time because of the leaving at the moment so I can't do much more troubleshooting, should I just RMA all of those parts?

Corsair agreed to RMA a few months ago but I never got around to organizing an advance on it. The G.skill ram should have a life time warranty and be covered. The motherboard has a 5 year warranty and the GPU has a 3 year warranty.

I know the motherboard and gpu probably are fine, what happens if I RMA and they're found to be okay? Am I subject to pay for shipping and or another fee? I'll be 18 on the 13th of June so should have a bit of money knocking around if that's the case but ideally I'd like to be spending that on something like PC upgrades not repairs.

Now that I'm thinking back I'm pretty sure I've had a problem with every aspect of this PC from a 3930k which seems to overclock worse than any other on the internet, the bad ram, gpu problems, loud h100, case which gruesomely slashed my finger open as I was building (ok it was a little cut but I'm trying to make this sound exciting), 3 mechanical hard drive failures in 1 year, the 840 problems now, the razer mamba battery exploding, the razer deathadder mouse5 button spring breaking, the cat doing that nail thing they do on my fabric mousepad, the bloody Dell U2711 having hot corners and led bleed, and I'm sure there's something else. There is something else, I plugged a usb 2 channel mixer and interface in and it killed that too. AND it killed a corsair usb3 16gb stick! THIS IS A DEVIL PC.

I'm not sure if I should be in personal issues or personal computers forum for these posts now.

Also, it really looks like I don't take care of things or man-handle when building or something but it's really completely the opposite it took me about 15 minutes of mentally preparing myself to click the ram into place because it felt like I was going to break the mobo.

so anyway, I think the original install error aspect of this thread has been pushed to the back of the queue behind all of these other problems

frozenfrozen · 03-06-2013 04:10PM

So rebuilt the pc, it's booting back into the windows 7 old install on the 830 ssd. There's a VGA red light on constantly now but since the computer is working I'll pretend that's not there. I'm trying to install from inside windows 7 now (so from the working win7, I'm trying to install to the other SSD, the 840 pro.) But now I'm getting the error 0x80070241. Google also seems unknowing about an actual fix for this error except for RMAing the motherboard. That can't really be the best fix though as it's just this one ssd that's causing the problem. I may start by RMAing the ssd, the ram and the cooler as there's most definitely something wrong with 2/3 of those, and a good chance the ssd is dodgy too. I went for the 3930k which didn't come with a stock cooler because "i'd never need it" -- and look at where I am now.

Error 0x80070570 on new SSD install

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