i Formatted my acer aspire 5742 with windows 7 home premium yesterday but I cannot seem to install any program . i've tried to install norton and java and the installation always stops and tells me there is an error.What should I do?
Any help is appreciated.
Hello kttyxkat3 and welcome to Seven Forums.
It's possible that your format/reinstall was corrupted in some way (bad disk, computer glitch, etc.) Without knowing exactly what method you used I can only point you to these tutorials for th specific steps that need to be taken:
Clean Install Windows 7
Clean Install with a Upgrade Windows 7 Version
Sorry i completely forgot about that, although I have a system restore disc I used my hard drive to format the laptop.
what error message do you get exactly?
Why did you format and reinstall? You already had major problems?
In Elevated Command Prompt
chkdsk asks you to perform the action after reboot, so respond Y (Yes)Code:sfc /scannow chkdsk/f c:
Reboot and see if there are disk errors. Are there errors? .... repaired?
Sorry for the late reply, I did the scan and no errors appeared. I get a message saying that any file i try to install is corrupted (Norton,java,games,etc.) Although i somehow managed to install norton it is full of glitches although java seems to be working fine. I have a system repair disc for my laptop but I used the recovery partition to format .Do you think that may have caused some problems?
Thanks everyone for your help , i managed to solve the issue.
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