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Windwos 7 instalation problems (can't get to final instalation stage).
First of all hello :)
Yesterday I was trying to reinstall system on my friends laptop.
It's a Samsung ultrabook with 500gb hdd and 16gb ssd. It had a recovery partition with Windows 7 OEM but since she had Windows 7 Ultimate she decided to go for it instead.
After getting to installation screen of recovery I removed partitions with system .At that point i was informed that to complete this disks have to be "disengaged" or something like that - I know it's not specific description but I was kinda in a hurry . After my confirmation installer removed partitions. From here I switched to USB bootable installation of Win7 Ultimate.
At stage of disk selection I removed rest of the partitions (including the one with recovery files), created and formatted new ones, and proceeded with installation as usual. Installation proceeded up to the point of rebooting the system to finish the process, at which point issues have started.
After rebooting system didn't load as it should. Instead information of "lack of operating system" was displayed. At that point I repeated whole process again (removing partitions, creating new ones, installing the system etc.). This time I left USB stick with system installation files in laptop. It went straight to preparing new installation of operating system as if nothing was installed the last time (about 4 repetitions of whole process brought same results).
At that point I started to look closer what is going on.
So new created partitions had strange letters assigned to them (f.eg. 100mb system reserved partition had letter "c:" assign to it, while main partition with system was marked as "d:"). At that point I booted GParted, removed all the partitions with it, created new Partition tables and tried again with same effect - after installation system reserved space ends up with "c:" and system wasn't booting at all.
After that I proceeded to DISKPART using this tutorial - SSD / HDD : Optimize for Windows Reinstallation and clean all option. Yet again results were the same as before. I tried pre-creating partitions on both SSD and HDD disks with same results.
Assigning proper letters to partitions ("c: to windows partition etc) with DISKPART after the installation brought me to "BOOTMGR is missing Press Ctrl+Alt+Del ".
At that stage I used "bootrec /fixmbr", "bootrec /fixboot", "bootrec /rebuildbcd" (with last one never being able to find directory c:\boot\bcd).
Every restart of the Laptop reassigns letter "C:" to System reserved partition.
Since I'm slowly running out of the ideas what to do next I would like to ask for any insight and help with that problem.
My next step will be using Linux to erase MBR and/or whole disks, but if anyone can provide me with better solution I would be extremely grateful!!
PS. Since this description might be "little" confusing I'm happy to answer any questions.