Thanks everyone I appreciated all of your help.

After opening a ticket with Western Digital they told me to ask for a replacement.

Well mine is barely 4 months old and still under WD warranty. I also paid for a replacement warranty from the store where I bought it. So I should return it then? And what do you make of Sentinel...

Yes thank you. I saw your post. Regarding Macrium yes what you saud is of course expected. The image was not created when there was a verification error.

It is late here and will do that...

I don't understand why I haven't seen them before since I have used device manager more times then I can count. I just read that the icon is a PCI card icon (from microsoft advisor). I don't know...

After doing SFC /scannow I have warnings on : all Storage AND IDE/ATA controllers as well as Display adapter

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I have a brand new motherboard and processor which I installed last March.
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Intel 64 pentium D 2.8ghz lga775 socket

Nope I did everything step by step copied the files from the mounted ISO to small new partition then booted with win 7 installation dvd opened command prompt and executed setup. exe. But I found out...

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Thanks for responding but this thread is about installing without usb or dvd.

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I followed your tutorial but I have win 7 ultimate 64bit and so I used my win 7 installation dvd to get to command prompt but after getting to setup.exe and pressing enter I got Windows 7...