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I am stuck in installing win7 on HP Mini, weird SSD problem.
I have found myself in a rather unusual situation here. I have a good, working laptop and a good, working SSD. They just hate each other.
I have a HP Mini 210-1000. Yesterday I replaced the stock HDD(Seagate Momentus 320GB) of this laptop with a SSD(Corsair Nova 60GB) and replaced the 1GB RAM with a 2 GB DDR2 RAM.
Now I started installing a 32bit Windows 7 Ultimate from a pen drive. It went smoothly. It restarted a few times. Finally got stuck on "Setup is preparing your computer for first use" screen. Stayed there for an hour and then I shut it down.
Then I tried installing 64 bit ultimate, 32 and 64 bit home basic with same results.
Then I updated the bios to the latest version.
I popped in a regular hdd with windows on it and it booted up fine.
Popped in a different samsung ssd with windows on it and it booted up fine.
I ran the setup in repair mode several times but to no avail.
Then I put the said Corsair SSD in a different laptop. It booted fine. I created user accounts and stuff and tried putting it back in the Mini. That didnt work either. I got the windows animation followed by a blank screen with a mouse pointer in the center. Nothing else.
It's midnight here and I am at my wit's end here.
Can anyone help?