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COOLHIPJIM56 Author

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Windows 7 Home OEM Install fail BSOD "ntfs.sys"

I am attempting to install Windows 7 Home Premium OEM on my Mid 2009 Macbook Pro running Lion 10.7.3 using Bootcamp 4. I partitioned the drive using bootcamp in osx, made a flash drive with the drivers and began the installation process with the OEM disk. I partitioned the bootcamp disk using the windows menu in order to install the OS onto it. All goes well until around 97% of the "Expanding Files" process when a BSOD appears (see attached photo) this haults the installation process. This is my first try at a bootcamp install and I had hoped it would go smoother. Figures the second I try to get windows on my OSX machine it get the **** BSOD... Microsoft.

Thanks in advance for the help guys, it's greatly appreciated.

Error: "page_fault_in_nonpaged_area" ntfs.sys

Posted on Mar 25, 2012 5:19 AM

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Mar 25, 2012 7:44 AM in response to COOLHIPJIM56

By OEM you mean you bought physical disc media "system builder" should be fine.

Burned ISO, then the burn speed was not set to slowest.

Windows is fine, but it wont accept if there are memory errors (I've read things that OS X is blind to that are terrible) or bad/weak seector.

You only had to format "BOOTCAMP" from FAT to NTFS, no other partition type operation.

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COOLHIPJIM56 Author

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Mar 25, 2012 8:23 AM in response to The hatter

It is H.P. 64-bit system builders from newegg.

I did recently upgrade the ram from 4gb to 8gb, could this be the issue?

And yes windows installer just formated the partition to FAT

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COOLHIPJIM56 Author

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Mar 25, 2012 8:43 AM in response to COOLHIPJIM56

OK I ran memtest on the memory... wow.

heres the terminal report:

Mac OS X 10.7.3 (11D50b) running in multiuser mode

Memory Page Size: 4096

System has 2 Intel core(s) with SSE

Requested memory: 6581MB (6900953088 bytes)

Available memory: 6581MB (6900953088 bytes)

Allocated memory: 6581MB (6900953088 bytes) at local address 0x0000000101000000

Attempting memory lock... locked successfully

Partitioning memory into 2 comparison buffers...

Buffer A: 3290MB (3450476544 bytes) starts at local address 0x0000000101000000

Buffer B: 3290MB (3450476544 bytes) starts at local address 0x00000001ceaa1800

Running 2 test sequences... (CTRL-C to quit)

Test sequence 1 of 2:

Running tests on full 6581MB region...

Stuck Address : testing 1 of 16

FAILURE! Data mismatch at local address 0x00000002612ac000

Actual Data: 0x00000000612ac000

Linear PRN : testing 1 of 16

FAILURE! Data mismatch at local address 0x00000002612ac000

Expected Data: 0x73eeed43525953b4, Actual Data: 0x73eeed40525953b4

Running comparison tests using 3290MB buffers...

Random Value :

FAILURE! Data mismatch at local BUFA address 0x000000019380a800, BUFB address 0x00000002612ac000

BUFA Data: 0x7b9f4794be8fd5c9, BUFB Data: 0x7b9f4700be8fd5c9

Compare XOR :

FAILURE! Data mismatch at local BUFA address 0x000000019380a800, BUFB address 0x00000002612ac000

BUFA Data: 0x6e601e04d536a38d, BUFB Data: 0x6e601e80d536a38d

Compare SUB :

FAILURE! Data mismatch at local BUFA address 0x000000019380a800, BUFB address 0x00000002612ac000

BUFA Data: 0xaf647d6bc1d8b31e, BUFB Data: 0xaf647d20c1d8b31e

Compare MUL :

FAILURE! Data mismatch at local BUFA address 0x000000019380a800, BUFB address 0x00000002612ac000

BUFA Data: 0xe65e286467fbcfda, BUFB Data: 0x16e97f6067fbcfda

Compare DIV :

FAILURE! Data mismatch at local BUFA address 0x000000019380a800, BUFB address 0x00000002612ac000

BUFA Data: 0x0000000000000001, BUFB Data: 0x0000000000000000

Compare OR :

FAILURE! Data mismatch at local BUFA address 0x000000019380a800, BUFB address 0x00000002612ac000

BUFA Data: 0x67ff878463be7c1b, BUFB Data: 0x67ff870063be7c1b

Compare AND :

FAILURE! Data mismatch at local BUFA address 0x000000019380a800, BUFB address 0x00000002612ac000

BUFA Data: 0x45fe02806336180b, BUFB Data: 0x45fe02006336180b

Sequential Increment:

FAILURE! Data mismatch at local BUFA address 0x000000019380a800, BUFB address 0x00000002612ac000

BUFA Data: 0x5ffe474ef10fb133, BUFB Data: 0x5ffe4740f10fb133

Solid Bits : testing 1 of 64

FAILURE! Data mismatch at local BUFA address 0x000000019380a800, BUFB address 0x00000002612ac000

BUFA Data: 0xffffffffffffffff, BUFB Data: 0xffffffe0ffffffff

Block Sequential : testing 1 of 256

FAILURE! Data mismatch at local BUFA address 0x000000019380a800, BUFB address 0x00000002612ac000

BUFA Data: 0x0000000000000000, BUFB Data: 0x0000004000000000

Checkerboard : testing 1 of 64

FAILURE! Data mismatch at local BUFA address 0x000000019380a800, BUFB address 0x00000002612ac000

BUFA Data: 0x5555555555555555, BUFB Data: 0x5555554055555555

Bit Spread : testing 1 of 128

FAILURE! Data mismatch at local BUFA address 0x000000019380a830, BUFB address 0x00000002612ac030

BUFA Data: 0x0000000000000005, BUFB Data: 0x0000008000000005

Bit Flip : testing 1 of 512

FAILURE! Data mismatch at local BUFA address 0x000000019380a800, BUFB address 0x00000002612ac000

BUFA Data: 0xfffffffffffffffe, BUFB Data: 0xffffffe0fffffffe

Walking Ones : testing 1 of 128

FAILURE! Data mismatch at local BUFA address 0x000000019380a800, BUFB address 0x00000002612ac000

BUFA Data: 0xfffffffffffffffe, BUFB Data: 0xffffffe1fffffffe

Walking Zeroes : testing 1 of 128

FAILURE! Data mismatch at local BUFA address 0x000000019380a800, BUFB address 0x00000002612ac000

BUFA Data: 0x0000000000000001, BUFB Data: 0x0000004000000001

pretty well worthless memory huh? CORSAIR from newegg as well...

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Mar 25, 2012 9:01 AM in response to COOLHIPJIM56

Ouch!

I buy Corsair, Crucial for my systems, though never used Corsair in a Mac as I did not think they tested theirs on Apple hardware.

I do like that Windows puts memtest on their DVD, and they have a new memory diagnostic utility with Windows 8 that is even easier to use. That way it runs at startup when there is no kernel or OS to deal with, but yes, if runnning in terminal. Rember is also popular.

With the terminal, fwiw or maybe you do this already but you can run smaller chunks in dozens of terminal processes and thereby test 256MB for 5 loops and have 20 or 50+ processes running at the same time, and much shorter.

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COOLHIPJIM56 Author

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Mar 26, 2012 5:40 AM in response to The hatter

Well I reinstalled the stock ram into my MBP and the installation went off without a hitch. I plan on RMA'ing the memory back to corsair and trying again. Thanks for the help bud.

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Windows 7 Home OEM Install fail BSOD "ntfs.sys"

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