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After a few more tries I was able to get it to boot, however the system had many corrupted files. This SSD is not even a year old yet. I don't know if I will have much trust for SSD's for a while; on the other hand I have had regular disks go out on me in the same time frame.
At any rate, I had a backup of my files, and as the system had a couple of 2 TB drives I had a place to install win7 to get back up and running. I removed the SSD drive, popped in the Windows 7 install disk and rebooted. I was greeted by the installation screen and the options for choosing a drive. Beforehand I had moved all my files over to one of the drives, and cleared one off in prep to install win 7.
I selected my unallocated drive and hit go, expecting that the install would soon be under way. I was greeted by an error message "windows 7 windows is unable to install to the selected location 0x80300024". Microsoft sure does love their cryptic error messages. After a bit of googling I decided that I'd give a try at loading some drivers from the motherboard driver disk, in a ditch effort that it might be a missing driver. After no luck with the driver and win 7 installer still throwing some 0x80300024 at me.
In another ditch effort, I figure well perhaps the installer is easily confused by me having multiple hard drives. I shut down the system, unplugged the drive that had data leaving only the unallocated drive plugged in. I fired up the windows installer again, clicked the disk, low and behold my installation is underway.
This goes to show you, the windows 7 installer is easily confused. If you are having problems try unplugging all extra disks except the one you are installing to.
