format failed with black screen after reboot

Hi ttaammaarr,

If you only want a C drive, delete all partitions, so you just end up with 1 partition being the whole of your hard drive.

re-install
Then custom, the install will create
1) System partition reserved - 100mb
2) C drive - the rest

Roy

As Roy mentioned, to do a clean install, you have to delete all partitions.
Clean Install Windows 7 - Windows 7 Help Forums

Hi Roy,
I tried to do exactly this.(sory for not being clear) :
In the “where do you want to install windows” there were 3 items.
I selected the system reserved partition=> disk options=>DELETE.
I selected what seemed to me D and delete.
I didn't touch the third one because isisnt know what it was (recovery partition?).
Now I expected to see one less partition but instead there were 3 items, 2 of them marked as “unallocated space”. All disk options were diabled except “REFRESH”.
I selected ond of tha items and pressed NEXT.
The installation started normally till the reboot. The boot process got stucked with black screen.
How to proceed from here?
Is it possible to reboot again from CD and start the installation all over again ?

Hi ttaammaarr

can you try with diskpart

Disk - Clean and Clean All with Diskpart Command - Windows 7 Help Forums

Roy

I'm not sure how to do it without an access to OS.

It's all on Clean Install Windows 7 - Windows 7 Help Forums

- Boot from the win7 installation disk.
- Go to installation - advanced - delete ALL partitions (till you have only one un allocated partition) - create new.
It will create:
- A MS reserved - 100Mb - RAW
- Big NTFS Partition

- Install on the Big NTFS Partition