Wipe computer and reinstall OS and drivers/utilities

Quick question did you have the USB device in your machine when you used DBAN, just checking because if you did you will have completely wiped it also.

You used the Windows 7 .iso and the .iso to USB/DVD tool, do you have a second USB stick to try it with (> 4 GB). You booted via F12 and it says invalid device?

No, the usb wasn't hooked into the laptop but I didnt use the USB/DVD tool doing that now.

Ugh the DBan got interrupted and now it won't restart, I get: unknown fatal error: dev/sdb

after researching that error and following what ppl say to disable media card readers I still can't continue DBan. hmm...

During the SATA Drivers process during the windows install I find the file on the USB but when I select the correct 64 bit folder and that "hide drivers that are not compatible" is checked none are visible.

Should it be checked or unchecked? My Serial ATA isn't called Intel matrix manager driver but is Intel- Driver rapid storage technology is that the same thing?

Yeah I mentioned disabling them in the wiki, f2 setup. However the DBAN step isn't compulsary, you have format options when installing Windows they just aren't as through. Before with the USB did you just put the .iso on it, if so it won't work because the setup files aren't extracted and the device isn't made bootable. Hence you can't boot from it.

Yes pretty much and yes it should be checked, some of these .isos may already have them preloaded; as I said I have usually not needed to carry out that step. If it can't find them in the folder it probably doesn't need them, just proceed with the install.

ugh after all that...Just setting up the drivers and utilities and such. Thank you so much for all your help!

Sure thing, is it all up and running? How's the performance? You may also want to take some of the free programs from. My useful software wiki.

Yes up and running. Haven't found roblems yet. Running just like it did out of the box. Going to take a system image of it this time so next time this hapens it will be a quicker fix.

Everything i downloaded will also be on the system image as well right? Or that a different process to back the programs.

Great, I would keep a backup of everything you have downloaded also, just in case.

I think so, to be honest I generally do a clean install opposed to making system images.