laptop wont let me install ><

[crankmonkey]

hello hello i have just recently pulled out my old laptop from storage because, well i dont really know, but i wanted to install 7 on it and well... its not letting me install. ive tested the disks, both the x86 and 64bit versions against my desktop and they both boot up just fine anyone have any ideas??

 

[ilesal]

hello hello i have just recently pulled out my old laptop from storage because, well i dont really know, but i wanted to install 7 on it and well... its not letting me install. ive tested the disks, both the x86 and 64bit versions against my desktop and they both boot up just fine anyone have any ideas??

You may need to go to the laptops bios screen and change the boot order to CD/DVD drive first then the hard drive. Different computer have diffferent ways of accessing the bios you may need to wait for the splash screen and press F2 of F8 or even the Delete key. When you get in and have changed the boot order save and exit it should reboot, then a prompt will say press any key to boot from disc. Press any key and th einstallation process should start.

 

[crankmonkey]

i have it set up so that it goes cd rom then hard drive then removable device

ive even go to far as removing the hdd option from teh boot device priotity and still dosent seem to wanna work for me

 

[crankmonkey]

ohhh when i tried to intsall teh 64bit ive gotten an error about not being able to install because of 0xc000000f or something like that
any thoughts?
thanks

 

[The Sly Assassin]

maybe your BIOS doesn't support x64?

 

[crankmonkey]

maybe your BIOS doesn't support x64?

its possible, but even so why wont it let me boot x86? when i have it set to boot from cd/dvdrom it just sits there for about 30s flashing - then it boots to xp

 

[digitalrurouni]

What kind of laptop specs are you running I am curious

 

[Jacee]

Are you trying to dual boot, or just upgrade?
What build number of Win7 did you download (as an ISO)?
Are you sure the DVD you made is okay, or possibly corrupt?

 

[digitalrurouni]

Are you trying to dual boot, or just upgrade?
What build number of Win7 did you download (as an ISO)?
Are you sure the DVD you made is okay, or possibly corrupt?

I think in the OP he had mentioned that the dvd works in other machines except for his laptop.

I wonder if you need to update your drive's firmware.

 

[crankmonkey]

its like a 3-6 year old alienware laptop thats become of no use to me anymore, its rocking a 3.2 P4 and 1gb ram to be more exact its an area-51m 766 i was thinking of looking to see what kinda firmware upgrades i could get, and i was planning to just streight up install, no dual boot on it

 

[digitalrurouni]

Hmm I See. I dont have any more suggestions unfortunately other than firmware AThat would be the only logical conclusion I can come up with. Have you tried burning the OS iso the disc on that alienware machine itself? Try burning at a slower speed if at all possible.

 

[crankmonkey]

HOLY JEEEBUS so i just unpluged it from the power cord and went to grab the wep key and it decided that it would finally load, stupid machines i just hope that i dont have any problems with the install fingers crossed

 

[digitalrurouni]

lool nice! That has to be the most random/weird error I have heard of

 

[crankmonkey]

well i got it to finally start the install but got stuck at 0% for about an hour or so, so lets try again, hope the battery holds up

 

[crankmonkey]

well ive given up, it just dosent wanna install so im just gonna put it back in storage unless someone is close by that could help me out instead. if not no big deal and thanks for the help

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

Same problem occured when I attempted to install Windows 7 Beta on a friends laptop (that turned out to be made by Walmart, we call it the craptop).

I cannot help you sadly, but this problem does appear to happen frequently with old 'laptops'.

One thing, what program did you use to burn the ISO to disc?

 

[crankmonkey]

nero at 4x, the lowest it would let me burn, i just think its funny that i can install just fine on my desktop but i cant on the laptop

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

Could you perhaps try this;

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/7943-install-windows-7-fast-without-dvd-usb-device.html

Also I prefer using Active ISO.zip (not the EXE) for burning ISO's. =P

 

[crankmonkey]

interseting, i installed 7 but am just too used to using xp, so i took it off my desktop humm ill have to look around to see if i can find a copy of vista somewhere around in the house. and ya ive been meaning to go with imgburn but just havent made the switch yet and i like the media player that nero comes with :/

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

Well good luck with whatever you decide to do, if you need help you can always post a new thread here. =P