Please help with installing 7

Hi all

I have a Vista x86 installed on an old IDE drive. A few days ago I bought a new SATA drive and wanted to install windows 7 x64 on it. I selected the SATA drive to boot first in the BIOS and booted the installation DVD. I got as far as the first restart (after the files are copied). If I don't select to boot from the DVD the PC is rebooted back immidiately. If I take out the DVD I get a "disk read error. Press ctrl-alt-del" message. The drive is brand new but i ran chkdsk just in case and it came out clean. For now I'm using the old vista from my IDE drive. What should I do?

Did you remove the IDE HD before installing WIN7?
Can you boot Vista,& set the new drive up?

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severedsolo said:

Hi ALH did you let it do its thing? Its possible that the copy didn't work properly the first time, so maybe you should try running it again? If you have a little bit of space, you can try making a recovery partition from your disk. Recovery Partition - Create that will speed up the process considerably its possible that there was a disk read error.

Also don't take the DVD out until installation is complete! during that second boot it copies drivers over

Hi severedsolo

I thought about it. I actually installed it twice (the first installation was saved in windows.old). Both times I let it run to the end. Nothing changed.

Also I didn't take out the disk during the installation but only after the restart. If I let it stay in the drive then as soon as the "boot from disk...." passed the PC reset immediately. No messages, nothing. I copied the contents of the DVD to the hard drive and it went fine. I also used the same DVD earlier to install windows 7 on my father's PC. It worked fine.

theog said:

Did you remove the IDE HD before installing WIN7?
Can you boot Vista,& set the new drive up?

Can you post a screen shot Disk management?
https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...en-forums.html

Screenshot tools.
Screenshot with Paint
Screenshot and Upload using MWSnap
Fscapture free download

Can you post your specs.
Filling out System Specs

I didn't remove the IDE HD during the installation, just changed the boot order in the BIOS. I did set the new drive up in Vista before and even split it into NTFS partitions in Vista.

ALH said:

theog said:

Try removing IDE HD,& reformat new HD.

When you formated the new Hd, did you do a quick format or a full format?

OK I'll try it later on. I only need to format the system partition on the new HD right? The one where I tried installing the Windows.

I didn't specifically format the drive before. Just created the NTFS Partitions on it.

Yes, you can run full format on partition 2 when Win7 is installed.

It is best to run a full format on all new HD's.

What is the SATA controller setting in BIOS?

Is your BIOS up to date?

Try clearing the CMOS: Clear CMOS - 3 Ways to Clear the CMOS - Reset BIOS