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disk.sys problem during/after install
I installed Windows 7 on my laptop, an Acer Extensa 4630z. It went painfully slow the first time, took about 3 hours to get through but never gave any error message or stopped completely. But when it restarted the first time it froze at the windows is starting logo. When i booted in safe mode it stopped at disk.sys. I reinstalled windows overnight and about 8 hours later it was installed, rebooted, and running. I thought it might be solved and I restarted the computer just to check. It froze in the same place, at the windows starting logo, still disk.sys in safe mode. I thought it was a hard drive issue so I tried everything I could think of, changing BIOS settings between AHCI and IDE, even tried a completely different hard drive. I've tried removing each stick of RAM individually. I've tried both 32 and 64 bit versions. Nothing works. Please help. At this point i feel like hurling the thing out the window.