Solved Fresh Install of Windows 7 64 bit taking over 24 hours so far

Windows 7 home premium 64 bit and I went through all the steps and got to the installer and presses install now but my laptop can't even find the drivers now.
 

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Drivers for what ? :confused:
 

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In one of your earlier posts, you said you deleted the HD partitions. So you may have messed up the HD. Therefore you may have to use Partition Wizard to clean up your HD, so the win7 install DVD/USB recognizes it properly.












 

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Ok I'll try again and tell you exactly what happens. I went I to the bios and went to system configuration, then boot options, then boot order and hanged the order to : internal cd/DVD ROM drive, then notebook hard drive then USB cd/DVD ROM drive. Then saved and exited. I then pressed esc to get to the startup menu and when to boot device options and selected internal cd/DVD ROM drive. Then when it said press any key to boot from DVD rom drive I pressed enter. It said windows is loading files and it loaded. Then it said starting windows and the windows glowing logo came up. It took about a minute to load from there to the screen that says windows 7 language to install: English, time and currency format, and keyboard or input method. I selected English, english (canada) and us respectively then pressed next. It took me to the screen that says install now so I clicked install now. It said setup is starting... and began to load. Then a popup came up and said widows could not retrieve information about the disks on this computer, so I pressed ok. It brought me back to the install windows screen. So I clicked install now again and got back to the setup is starting... screen. This took me to the listener terms screen and I accepted and pressed next. I then clicked custom advanced but it said no drives were found. Click load driver to provide a mass storage driver for installation. What do I do? I am really freaking out now.
 

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hp g6?
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windows 7 home premium 64 bit
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intel core i5?
Memory
6 Gb RAM?
Graphics Card(s)
intel hd 3000
Partition wizard?
 

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windows 7 home premium 64 bitintel core i5?6 Gb RAM?intel hd 3000
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hp g6?
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windows 7 home premium 64 bit
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intel core i5?
Memory
6 Gb RAM?
Graphics Card(s)
intel hd 3000

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Win7 Enterprise, Win7 x86 (Ult 7600), Win7 x6...AMD fx8350 4ghz, AMD-32 2400mhz, AMD-64 3200m...2gb, 4gb on the Ult 7600, 4gb on Technet RTM,...Draw my own Graphics, several nVidia cards
Computer type
PC/Desktop
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Built them myself, Science Experiments !
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Win7 Enterprise, Win7 x86 (Ult 7600), Win7 x64 Ult 7600, TechNet RTM on AMD x64 (2.8Ghz)
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AMD fx8350 4ghz, AMD-32 2400mhz, AMD-64 3200mhz, AMDx64 2.8G
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SIS 755, ECS-K8M890M-M (Ult 7600), GigaByte & others
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2gb, 4gb on the Ult 7600, 4gb on Technet RTM, 32gb on FX8350
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Draw my own Graphics, several nVidia cards
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on motherboard
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19" flat scr, 28" I-Inc widescr,22" Emprex Widescr, 23" Acer
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added 80gb external on Ult 7600 computer,
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430w, 550w, 600w, 700, 800, etc
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All Generic Full Towers
Cooling
Open Air & a few fans, some w/ colored LEDs
Keyboard
Compaq & Dell recycled from GoodWill
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Made in China Optical Wired Mouse
Internet Speed
Fast Cable InterNet
Antivirus
AVG Free on 24 different Desktops, NO Problems!
Browser
IE 8 is preferred, but use FireFox sometimes
Other Info
Linksys Routers, switches, & Hubs
Too Many USB Flash Drives to count, Biggest is 64GB !
Eight computers in my home network.
Sixteen computers at my business network.
Linked via TeamViewer !
Lots of old used spare computer parts everywhere!
Does the hard drive show up in the bios ?

I don`t understand why this is happening.

Windows has to see the hard drive to continue the install, it should show up after you choose the custom option.

You can delete the partitions after windows sees the hard drive, don`t worry about Partition Wizard right now.
 

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Logitech G910 Orion Spectrum
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Verizon Fios Quantum Gateway 75/75
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Windows Defender, Malwarebytes Free 3.8.3
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Chrome
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windows 7 home premium 64 bitintel core i5?6 Gb RAM?intel hd 3000
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Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
hp g6?
OS
windows 7 home premium 64 bit
CPU
intel core i5?
Memory
6 Gb RAM?
Graphics Card(s)
intel hd 3000
Go into your bios and click on each tab across the top, one of them will show the hard drives you have connected and the dvd/cd drive. It will display the hard drive size in MBs, that should help you locate it.

It will be in the same list as the dvd drive

It could be under the boot tab. All bios are different but relatively the same.

Read this Tutorial http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1649-clean-install-windows-7-a.html
 

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EVGA GTX 980 Ti SC x2
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Samsung 860 Pro 256GB, Seagate Barracuda 4TB x2
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Windows Defender, Malwarebytes Free 3.8.3
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Ok it should be connected since I was able to restart the installation. I started about 8 minutes ago. So far it is still at copying windows files 0%, I'll just have to wait and see if it's working I guess?
 

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Did the hard drive show up after you chose custom install ?

Like in Step 7 of the the Tutorial I just gave you ? You should have deleted disk 0 down to unallocated space like in this picture.
 
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EVGA 1000 P2, EVGA White Custom Braided Cables
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Corsair H100i v2, Corsair ML120 x2, Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut
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Ok it cancelled and I got error code 0x80070057 windows could not format a partition on disk 0. Te error occurred while preparing the partition selected for installation.
 

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hp g6?
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windows 7 home premium 64 bit
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intel core i5?
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6 Gb RAM?
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intel hd 3000
Last time I chose custom install, I had disk 0 partition 1 system reserved and disc 0 partition 2 unallocated or something
 

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windows 7 home premium 64 bitintel core i5?6 Gb RAM?intel hd 3000
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hp g6?
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windows 7 home premium 64 bit
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intel core i5?
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6 Gb RAM?
Graphics Card(s)
intel hd 3000
Try again and make sure disk 0 looks like the picture before you click next. Click on drive options to do it.

Do you have any data on any other partitions on this hard drive ?

If you don`t, delete all the partitions so disk 0 looks just like the picture, then click next and the install will start.
 

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Intel Core i7 6700K
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GSkill TridentZ RGB 16GB 3600 16-16-16-36
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EVGA GTX 980 Ti SC x2
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Realtek High Definition
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AOC G2460PG
Screen Resolution
1920 x 1080 144Hz
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Samsung 860 Pro 256GB, Seagate Barracuda 4TB x2
PSU
EVGA 1000 P2, EVGA White Custom Braided Cables
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Corsair Vengeance C70 Gunmetal Black
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Corsair H100i v2, Corsair ML120 x2, Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut
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Logitech G910 Orion Spectrum
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Logitech G700s
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Verizon Fios Quantum Gateway 75/75
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Windows Defender, Malwarebytes Free 3.8.3
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Chrome
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It didn't look like the picture
 

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windows 7 home premium 64 bitintel core i5?6 Gb RAM?intel hd 3000
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hp g6?
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windows 7 home premium 64 bit
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intel core i5?
Memory
6 Gb RAM?
Graphics Card(s)
intel hd 3000
No data on te hard drive I don't think...man this is some super frustrating stuff.
 

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hp g6?
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windows 7 home premium 64 bit
CPU
intel core i5?
Memory
6 Gb RAM?
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intel hd 3000
Your best bet is to first define a primary, active partition on that disk and then install into that partition. That has always worked.
 

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ANSI do that with partition wizard?
 

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windows 7 home premium 64 bitintel core i5?6 Gb RAM?intel hd 3000
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hp g6?
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windows 7 home premium 64 bit
CPU
intel core i5?
Memory
6 Gb RAM?
Graphics Card(s)
intel hd 3000

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Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8from 1.6GHz Duo to i7
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2x HP w2207
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5x HDD, 7x SSD, 12x Externals
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with trackball - no mices
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Trackball mice
Internet Speed
DSL 6000
I don't understand what it is that I need do exactly, could you be a little more descriptive?
 

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windows 7 home premium 64 bitintel core i5?6 Gb RAM?intel hd 3000
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hp g6?
OS
windows 7 home premium 64 bit
CPU
intel core i5?
Memory
6 Gb RAM?
Graphics Card(s)
intel hd 3000
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