Clean install of Windows 7

gregrocker said:

PSCO2007 said:

Sorry to have bothered you.

It will not stop us from helping you. But you don't have to make it so difficult.

We successfully help tens of thousands of users here so we know what works and doesn't.

I am trying to be Anything but difficult.
I simply said that by following the directions to Install the OS and doing the updates, it did not work for me.

Did you follow the steps in Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7?

Did you enable Automatically get recommended drivers and updates for your hardware which assures the printer and other hardware drivers are delivered and installed correctly?

There may be glitches that need to be worked out, e.g you may need to install or reinstall flashplayer in a browser, install all or part of the full printer software package from it's Support Downloads webpage if the Win7 driver isn't enough. Some programs may need troubleshooting to run correctly. We are here to help you with that instead of just junking the whole install.

gregrocker said:

Did you follow the steps in Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7?

Did you enable Automatically get recommended drivers and updates for your hardware which assures the printer and other hardware drivers are delivered and installed correctly?

There may be glitches that need to be worked out, e.g you may need to install or reinstall flashplayer in a browser, install all or part of the full printer software package from it's Support Downloads webpage if the Win7 driver isn't enough. Some programs may need troubleshooting to run correctly. We are here to help you with that instead of just junking the whole install.

I am not trying to junk the install ( which was transferred from a backup image on an HDD).
I was told that the partitions have to be divisible by a whole number and only one is. (pic in a reply to ignatzatsonic.
The install, though, seems perfect.

As I told ignatzatsonic. I am going to try again by installing it on a spare hdd and see if I can figure out why the first one failed.

PSCO2007 said:

I was told that the partitions have to be divisible by a whole number and only one is. (pic in a reply to ignatzatsonic.

I think maybe you ought to look at your arithmetic again. See my original post 4. By my division, both are divisible by 4.

ignatzatsonic said:

PSCO2007 said:

I was told that the partitions have to be divisible by a whole number and only one is. (pic in a reply to ignatzatsonic.

I think maybe you ought to look at your arithmetic again. See my original post 4. By my division, both are divisible by 4.

Sorry, I am going a little crazy.
I thought you had said that one wasn't.

I thought both had to be divisible by 4096 and return a whole number.
The second one doesn't.

PSCO2007 said:

ignatzatsonic said:

PSCO2007 said:

I was told that the partitions have to be divisible by a whole number and only one is. (pic in a reply to ignatzatsonic.

I think maybe you ought to look at your arithmetic again. See my original post 4. By my division, both are divisible by 4.

Sorry, I am going a little crazy.
I thought you had said that one wasn't.

I did originally---but rechecked my calculations.

Both are divisible by both 4 and 4096. Put them into Windows calculator yourself.

The 4 answers are 262144, 256, 26476544, and 25856---exactly, evenly.

The truest test is performance. If it's instantaneous and doesn't ever hang then it's a keeper.

Why did you want to Clean Reinstall in the first place? Very wise to make the backup image. But the issues you mentioned are fixable as I've seen them all handled here before.

PSCO2007 said:

I thought both had to be divisible by 4096 and return a whole number.
The second one doesn't.

Try this.

Nor have I ever heard anything about 4096, for that matter. But it still is divisible evenly by that number.

gregrocker said:

The truest test is performance. If it's instantaneous and doesn't ever hang then it's a keeper.

Why did you want to Clean Reinstall in the first place? Very wise to make the backup image. But the issues you mentioned are fixable as I've seen them all handled here before.

The only reason is I was told that a transfer from an image on the hdd to ssd is not good.
I think that was misinformation, as the partitions, which I was told would be misaligned, are not.
This install seems fine and I am going to keep it.

I just want to do a test on an hdd to see what I didn't do right on the ssd install.

When I was having the issues with the previous install on the ssd, I posted and couldn't get a resolution.