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Big problem when reinstalling Win7 RC 64-bit
Hello world!
So, a few days back I built a PC for my friend and we installed Windows 7 RC 64-bit in it. Then we realized that the audio didn't work at all, and we tried every kind of driver we could find for it, but it didn't work out. Yesterday we decided to try reinstalling the OS in case something had gone wrong during the installation (there was a power failure when the OS was up and running but still installing drivers).
Well, I rebooted the PC and put in the RC installation disc. I clicked the format button to clear the HDD and tried installing, but when it reached 6% in the "expanding files" section the installation crashed and said something about some .dll file missing. Well, today we decided to try again, and I took the HDD home and formatted it with the Win 7 disk management option by deleting the partitions (the 100mb thingy that the OS makes when installing and the rest) and made a new NTFS partition. Then, back to my friend's house (what an awful lot of driving, I tell ya). I plugged the HDD in and tried to reinstall, it complained again about files missing but the error message was different this time. I'll attach a picture of the text, sorry for the crappy quality of my Nokia 6555's camera.
The setup is something like this:
ASRock AS770DE
AMD Phenom II x4 940 BE
ATI Radeon HD4850
2x2gb Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800MHz
Antec EarthWatts 500W
Antec Sonata III
Samsung SpinPoint F1 500gb
Optiarc 5200s DVD+-RW
About the sound problem: My setup, which is visible in my profile, has had no audio problems so far and doesn't seem to be getting any. I'm wondering if my friend's mobo's sound circuit could be broken?
And first of all, how can I get the OS installer to work? I've tried 2 different installation disks of Win7 and both of them give the same result. How can any files be missing, shouldn't all the files be included with the .iso image I burnt on the DVD? It worked for my PC and worked for the first time on his PC too. Is something wrong with the HDD, and what to do with it if there is?
My friend is pretty much pissed and almost ready to whack the whole PC into pieces with an axe. We had to resort in installing Ubuntu 8.10 so he can even access the Internet (the sound doesn't work on Linux either, btw) since neither of us has a copy of XP or Vista.
If I forgot some crucial information about anything, please ask. I'd like to have this solved since... well, you know why.