The issue is weird: a lot of ppl can't format partitions in WinPE (preinstalled environment) mode on their PRO IV device. Don't know why this bug doesn't seem to be solved with FW 1916 and I also don't have a clue whether this is true for all available types of the PRO IV series.
This issue causes the drive to freeze after one selects a partition to install Windows to.
Btw: my drive freezes in other situations as well, eg. AFTER wiper.exe has been executed (successfully). I then get this ominous HDD light going solid for about 5 sec and game over.
Here's a workaround which does not require to remove your drive and use the caddy in order to format a partition via USB from a running Windows!
Required: Paragon Partition Manager or Drive Backup. You can download the latter from Paragon server :-)
1. Install Win7 to unallocated space to let it create 2 partitions OR when you don't need the 100MB system partition create the partition(s) yourself.
2. Shut down your PC.
3. Now boot up a partition manager or backup software like Paragon Drive Backup 9 in WINPE environment and do a quick format on the partition(s) with it. Paragon provides its own format routine and this gets the job done! Follow the steps outlined below:
- If you don't own Paragon Partition Manager or Drive Backup download Paragon Drive Backup WINPE recovery disk download it here: http://dl.paragon-software.com/suppo...9.8667_003.exe It's german unfortunately (didn't find an english version), but who cares (well for a Swiss it isn't too hard to decypher german, so at least I don't care ;-)
- Make a bootable CD-ROM or USB stick from the iso
- Boot from it
- When you get to the menu: select 1st entry ("DB 9 starten")
- When the app is up: right click over the graphical representation of the appropriate partition of your Drive 0 at the bottom of the screen.
- Select format partition ("Partition formatieren")
- Click more options at the bottom of the popup ("Mehr Optionen")
- UNTICK / CLEAR the checkbox (this tells Paragon to do the formatting with its own routine)
- Select NTFS in the dropdown, don't touch the other settings
- Hit Format ("Formatieren")
-> this should issue a successful quick format
4. Finally boot up Windows Setup again, select the partition and ... BE HAPPY ;-)
This issue causes the drive to freeze after one selects a partition to install Windows to.
Btw: my drive freezes in other situations as well, eg. AFTER wiper.exe has been executed (successfully). I then get this ominous HDD light going solid for about 5 sec and game over.
Here's a workaround which does not require to remove your drive and use the caddy in order to format a partition via USB from a running Windows!
Required: Paragon Partition Manager or Drive Backup. You can download the latter from Paragon server :-)
1. Install Win7 to unallocated space to let it create 2 partitions OR when you don't need the 100MB system partition create the partition(s) yourself.
2. Shut down your PC.
3. Now boot up a partition manager or backup software like Paragon Drive Backup 9 in WINPE environment and do a quick format on the partition(s) with it. Paragon provides its own format routine and this gets the job done! Follow the steps outlined below:
- If you don't own Paragon Partition Manager or Drive Backup download Paragon Drive Backup WINPE recovery disk download it here: http://dl.paragon-software.com/suppo...9.8667_003.exe It's german unfortunately (didn't find an english version), but who cares (well for a Swiss it isn't too hard to decypher german, so at least I don't care ;-)
- Make a bootable CD-ROM or USB stick from the iso
- Boot from it
- When you get to the menu: select 1st entry ("DB 9 starten")
- When the app is up: right click over the graphical representation of the appropriate partition of your Drive 0 at the bottom of the screen.
- Select format partition ("Partition formatieren")
- Click more options at the bottom of the popup ("Mehr Optionen")
- UNTICK / CLEAR the checkbox (this tells Paragon to do the formatting with its own routine)
- Select NTFS in the dropdown, don't touch the other settings
- Hit Format ("Formatieren")
-> this should issue a successful quick format
4. Finally boot up Windows Setup again, select the partition and ... BE HAPPY ;-)