Cant reinstall windows 7

[santhoshkuttan]

Dear all...i am using thoshiba laptop with OS windows 7. two days back my battery part became very hot and in a quick i turn off my system.But then after i cant boot my system with battery.. that means my battery is dead..bt last day on wards i cant do any thing with my lap...i cant boot..then i tried to re install my system. so i put my os dvd and trid to boot from dvd..any hw it worked and when i select my system drive it is showing a message " windows canot installed to disk 0 part 1". then i formated that drive and tried once again this time also i got the same error message. then i clicked the more details their they are showing the error message" Winodws cannot installed to tjis disc. this computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that the disk's controller is enabled in the bios" . then i enterd my bios their i didnt find any such to enable... so please help any one.....

 

[boogieboy]

Sounds like the HDD stopped working... Try to restore the BIOS to defaults settings and dont forget to set the DVD in 1st Boot Device then try booting the OS Disc again.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello santhoshkuttan, welcome to Seven Forums!


I would suggest, after you have copied out or made back-ups of the data you need to save to external media, use Step One of this tutorial at the link below to do a wipe (secure erase) to the entire Hard Disk Drive, running this "clean all" then using the outline in Step Two #2 to create/format and mark Active a single 100GB partition using diskpart will get you the best possible space to do a clean install of Windows 7 to; you can always extend the Windows partition to include the remaining unallocated space on the HDD / SSD or create additional partitions after the installation completes if you choose.

SSD / HDD : Optimize for Windows Reinstallation


Be sure to post back with any further questions you may have and to keep us informed.

 

[santhoshkuttan]

hai... i made all ur suggested changes. i made dvd as the first boot device. i inserted the windows dvd and boot from the dvd. then the windows installation logo appeared and i clicked istall button. i accepted the agreement and then after on the next window we are having an option to select where to install OS. but if i select any drive on the bottom of the window i am getting an error message as "cant install in disk 0" .. wt i have to do.. pls help

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello santhoshkuttan, welcome to Seven Forums!


I would suggest, after you have copied out or made back-ups of the data you need to save to external media, use Step One of this tutorial at the link below to do a wipe (secure erase) to the entire Hard Disk Drive, running this "clean all" then using the outline in Step Two #2 to create/format and mark Active a single 100GB partition using diskpart will get you the best possible space to do a clean install of Windows 7 to; you can always extend the Windows partition to include the remaining unallocated space on the HDD / SSD or create additional partitions after the installation completes if you choose.

SSD / HDD : Optimize for Windows Reinstallation


Be sure to post back with any further questions you may have and to keep us informed.

Did you wipe the HDD first?

SSD / HDD : Optimize for Windows Reinstallation

DISKPART : At PC Startup

 

[santhoshkuttan]

dear.. i didnt do any thing...when it shows that "u cant install windows in disk 0" i formatted C drive then also i am getting the same error message...still i cant install windows... shall i try any other OS?... i showed the HDD to my service man..he told me to replace by a new one....

 

[gregrocker]

You should have first tried to repair your Win7 using the Repair console on the second screen of Installation DVD. http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/681-startup-repair.html?ltr=S

To test your HD burn to CD the maker's diagnostics/repair utility, boot it to run an extended scan: HD Diagnostic

If it is able to repair or finds nothing to repair, afterwards boot into the Repair console Command Line to run http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/433-disk-check.html

If the HD is ok, wipe it and try install again.