Installation Troubles


  1. Kallb123
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    Windows 7 Ultimate RC1 7100
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    Installation Troubles


    I tried to install W7 but when it tries to restart (any time) it will freeze. I think this cause something to go wrong as I have to press restart button on front of tower. When it starts back again it gets stuck on Completing Install and since many people say install takes 12-20 minutes I guess it can't take so long on my PC (check specs).
    So instead I have followed this tutorial Install Windows 7 FAST without a DVD or USB device and I can get through it but I have problem. I have XP, so I cannot create the boot files properly. I have tried launching from W7 DVD and using the command prompt there and it says successfully created boot files. I activated the W7 hard drive (I have XP on one 320GB and W7 on other 320GB) as active partition. My PC still boots into Windows XP and I have nothing which lets me choose part from press any key to boot from cd or dvd which I don't want.

    How can I get Windows 7 boot files (if it went wrong) or just get my PC to boot W7?
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  3. Anthony
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    MS Windows 7 Professional 64-bit SP1
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    Disconnect one of your monitors, and try again.
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  4. Kallb123
    Posts : 51
    Windows 7 Ultimate RC1 7100
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    I took out 1 monitor, 2GB ram and XP hard drive. W7 tries to boot but it says
    NTLDR is missing.
    press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart.

    I have looked in the root of the W7 folder but i can't see any boot.ini or bootmgr. Can I copy these from my XP and edit them in notepad?

    Edit:


    I've just started the W7 installer from the disk in XP and look what it says :s
    What can I do?
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  6. Kallb123
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    Windows 7 Ultimate RC1 7100
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    after restarting pc it was ok. it started the install and got until completing install. when it restarted it got a BSOD, which said something about USB.
    it has started up and is now continueing to complete install. it doesn't seem to be do anything though. i can bring up command prompt and when i go to root of the W7 drive and type dir it will tell that theres 295408048000 bytes remaining. this number seems to be going down but sometimes it goes up instead. is this normal? it started at about 295424blahblah so its going pretty slow at whatever its doing.

    cancelled that. no way i can leave it to do what ever its doing, byte by byte.

    I will format the hard drive and do the fast method again. I really need those boot files though. can i not download them from somewhere?
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  7. Kallb123
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    Windows 7 Ultimate RC1 7100
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    I unplugged everything I could grasp. Including:
    2GB of RAM (out of 4GB)
    Hauppagge TV Tuner
    Keyboard + Mouse (replaced with PS/2)
    Second Monitor
    Floppy Drive
    Memory Card Reader
    And disabled anything that I didn't need in the BIOS (USB and 2.0 support)

    Installation worked perfectly.
    The TV Tuner doesn't work (it caused BSOD in XP also) and many people say that it is very unstable. I guess that was a waste of money. If your install fails try removing any of the above.


    Windows 7 seems as though it will take over from XP since for me it has been awesome. One downpoint is that Company Of Heroes won't install properly, I have to use XP to play the game.
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  8. jackdrb
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    windows7 rc build 7100
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    It appears that my Windows7 build 7100 (x64) installed OK until it gets to the "Welcome" screen and the next screen is black with only the build info displayed in the lower right, One time I, by chance, I got as far as the "fish" screen - only fish - no icons etc.
    I installed the beta without a problem; I did an upgrade install.
    I can get into Outlook etc thru launch of Task Manager - only problem seems to be the black screen and missing icons. I got to this forum via an email linked to a web site,
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  10. snifferpro
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    Win7 build 7100, Win Bus 64bit, Mac OS X
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    post your system specs please.
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  11. jackdrb
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    windows7 rc build 7100
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    Solved


    jackdrb said:
    It appears that my Windows7 build 7100 (x64) installed OK until it gets to the "Welcome" screen and the next screen is black with only the build info displayed in the lower right, One time I, by chance, I got as far as the "fish" screen - only fish - no icons etc.
    I installed the beta without a problem; I did an upgrade install.
    I can get into Outlook etc thru launch of Task Manager - only problem seems to be the black screen and missing icons. I got to this forum via an email linked to a web site,
    I downloaded the Windows7 x64 driver for the graphics card (EVGA) and all is fixed.
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