Help Have I accidentally installed windows 7 twice or once(Fresh/clean

This is My first time doing a clean/fresh installation. I have recently done a fresh installation of windows 7 by booting via usb but I'm not sure if I installed it twice by mistake so this is what I done. I first changed the bios setting to boot from USB stick first and the first installation went fine until it said to "continuing to complete installation by restarting". When the laptop restarted it went back to installing windows 7 so I formatted the partition again and after it had completed installing the same message "Continuing to complete installation by restarting", but then I changed the boot sequence back to HDD as the top priority instead of USB.

My question is, Did I install windows 7 one or twice and how would I know?

When I tried changing the boot sequence by pressing a key I heard a beep noise by pressing the wrong key, Could this damage the laptop and going into the bios (2-3) times just to the boot sequence?

I'm quite scared as it is my first try plus fairly new laptop

Koolman511 said:

This is My first time doing a clean/fresh installation. I have recently done a fresh installation of windows 7 by booting via usb but I'm not sure if I installed it twice by mistake so this is what I done. I first changed the bios setting to boot from USB stick first and the first installation went fine until it said to "continuing to complete installation by restarting". When the laptop restarted it went back to installing windows 7 so I formatted the partition again and after it had completed installing the same message "Continuing to complete installation by restarting", but then I changed the boot sequence back to HDD as the top priority instead of USB.

My question is, Did I install windows 7 one or twice and how would I know?

When I tried changing the boot sequence by pressing a key I heard a beep noise by pressing the wrong key, Could this damage the laptop and going into the bios (2-3) times just to the boot sequence?

I'm quite scared as it is my first try plus fairly new laptop

Yeah, it was installed two times in a row, but no harm was done because the first installation was overwritten by the 2nd one.

No harm can ever be done to the laptop by going into the BIOS to make changes like that.

In other words, this was all 100% harmless.

Please post back a screenshot of your maximized Disk Management drive map and listings:

1. Type Disk Management in Start Search box.
2. Open Disk Mgmt. window and maximize it.
3. Type Snipping Tool in Start Search box.
4. Open Snipping Tool, choose Rectangular Snip, click New, draw a box around full drive map and all listings.
5, Save Snip, attach using paper clip in Reply Box.

Tell us what is on each partition. You should be aware of this or learn to manage it now with our help.

Is this a Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7?

You can also use Alt+Print Screen to take screenshots of only the active Window (such as Disk Management in this case).

Then what you do after that is you open Microsoft Paint, press Ctrl+V, save it as a .PNG format, and then you're ready to Attach it to a post.

Of course, that giant white space in Microsoft Paint should be shrunk down first to a size that's smaller than what you are going to paste. This way, there won't be extra white space around your screenshot.

AddRAM said:

Koolman511 Welcome to the Forums :)

Why is your writing barely readable ?

It looks fine on my end. Are the rest of the posts ok? I'm wondering if you may have some sort of weird browser issue.

AddRAM said:

Nope, no browser issues here, isn`t his print real dark to you ? Everyone else`s posts are white. His is dark gray. And small. He must`ve changed his fonts and color.

Weird. It looks the same as the rest of the posts on my end. I'm using Firefox 18.0, and it looks the same for me in Internet Explorer 8.

ICit2lol said:

TwoCables said:

Koolman511 said:

This is My first time doing a clean/fresh installation. I have recently done a fresh installation of windows 7 by booting via usb but I'm not sure if I installed it twice by mistake so this is what I done. I first changed the bios setting to boot from USB stick first and the first installation went fine until it said to "continuing to complete installation by restarting". When the laptop restarted it went back to installing windows 7 so I formatted the partition again and after it had completed installing the same message "Continuing to complete installation by restarting", but then I changed the boot sequence back to HDD as the top priority instead of USB.

My question is, Did I install windows 7 one or twice and how would I know?

When I tried changing the boot sequence by pressing a key I heard a beep noise by pressing the wrong key, Could this damage the laptop and going into the bios (2-3) times just to the boot sequence?

I'm quite scared as it is my first try plus fairly new laptop

Yeah, it was installed two times in a row, but no harm was done because the first installation was overwritten by the 2nd one.

No harm can ever be done to the laptop by going into the BIOS to make changes like that.

In other words, this was all 100% harmless.

Now this is interesting because I have a problem similar in a way in that I installed obviously twice on the same drive and one install is D: partition and the other C: partition, and am in the process of trying to sort out which one it boots from.
My mate has suggested something to do and it will probably be the thing that works - get rid of the non booting install but it raises the question how come?

The only thing I can think of is to free up that space.