Current Operating System, pre-install
• Do you have a single OS on your computer, are you planning on multi-booting with this installation? k i got rid of vista, and iam writing right now from windows 7 32bit, from 1 partition of the 3 i have.
• Are you multi-booting now?no
Current Hardware
• How many internal hard drives (HD) are connected to your system? 1
• Are they IDE or SATA? ide
• How many DVD drives are connected to your system?its a laptop so there is 1 drive for everything.
• Are they IDE or SATA Drives?
• Any external HDs used?
• Are they connected by USB or eSATA?
• Check Disk Management for any HDs listed with a yellow triangle and explanation point?everything is fine
• Is this a New Clean HD?is a 300gb partitioned into 3
• Have you pre-formatted the HD?i formatted the c drive where vista was located and installed windows 7 32bit on it.
Windows 7 installation details
• Which build number and version of Windows 7 are you installing?6.1
• Are you installing a 32 bit (x86) or 64 bit (x64) OS?im trying to get 64, because i have 4gbs of ram and i do not waste ram.
• Where did you get the ISO file from? microsoft sent it to me
Installation Media
• Using a USB memory key?
• From another partition or hard disk?
• From a DVD?yes
The procedure and speed of burning the ISO to DVD has been the most frequent cause of installation failure
• How did you burn the DVD? Briefly describe the steps you used.i ve had burned it many times into dvd, and rw dvd, using power iso, used default settings, and it didnt work, used the slowest speed, and it didnt work, and im very fustrated.
• Which ISO burning software did you use?poweriso, magic iso, active iso, ultraiso, etc
• At what burning speed and with Verify checked?some with verify some dont, slowest speed, max speed, and default
• A slow burn speed, lowest setting (example x4 speed), will ensure an error free burn.
Other
• Any Over Clocking of the RAM, CPU or GPU?negative