Windows 7 RC Freezes during startup.

[dabooga]

Hey guys i recently got the Windows 7 RC, i burnt it, booted up, it passed the ' Starting Windows ' phase but then freezes on the first screen which uses a colourful, blue wallpaper, I can move the mouse but nothing else, the cd drive & hard drive stop loading. I am currently using XP SP3 and any help would really be appreciated, Thanks.

EDIT: PC SPEC:

MB: ASRock 4CoreDual-SATA2
CPU: Q6600 G0
RAM: 2GB Ballistix
GPU: ATi Radeon X1950 AGP 512MB
PSU: Corsair 620w
OS: XP SP3 upgrading to Windows 7 RC 64-bit

 

[johnwillyums]

Are you past the install choice?
John

 

[dabooga]

Are you past the install choice?
John

no, you see, i see the ' Windows Loading ' screen and the ' Windows Startup '. As soon as i see the colourful blue background and the mouse cursor it freezes or stops loading, i am still able to move the mouse at this point but after endless waiting, nothing happening. Thanks.

 

[johnwillyums]

Ah. I see somebody helpful has moved your thread. Hopefully someone on this thread will have more idea than I do.
I take it you're attemoting a dual boot and have dreated an unallocated space to put W7?

Wish I could be of more help, John

 

[dabooga]

Ah. I see somebody helpful has moved your thread. Hopefully someone on this thread will have more idea than I do.
I take it you're attemoting a dual boot and have dreated an unallocated space to put W7?

Wish I could be of more help, John

Well, its a clean install where i boot up from the DVD on PC startup, i was hoping to format.

 

[dabooga]

Well, its a clean install where i boot up from the DVD on PC startup, i was hoping to format.

UPDATE:
I read in a few other threads this could be caused by the DVD drive im using, i replaced it and now when it reachs that same screen the mouse cursor shows the loading symbol for 5 seconds but then stops, nothing then seems to happen, i look at my HDD LED and it flashs every 2 seconds with a quik multi flash every 5 single flashs, if that made any sense, i hope you can help, Thanks.

 

[johnwillyums]

wouldn't you be better going for a dual boot? there are several threads and tutotials on that.
If this goes wrong you won't have a system.
John

 

[dabooga]

wouldn't you be better going for a dual boot? there are several threads and tutotials on that.
If this goes wrong you won't have a system.
John

Ill try it now, report back soon, Thanks.

 

[dabooga]

wouldn't you be better going for a dual boot? there are several threads and tutotials on that.
If this goes wrong you won't have a system.
John

yea i just realised i cant dual boot since i need to boot up the Windows 7 disk first right? I even tried booting from USB and the same problem, surely this means its either my hardware or software? Possibly Windows 7 64bit?

 

[johnwillyums]

Hang on. I'm not sure I understand. You have XP installed right?
I don't think you can upgrade from XP to Windows 7.
I think your only good choice is to dual boot. You would have to use something like gparted to shrink your XP install and then install W7 on a small partition ( at least 20GB )
Then you would get a choice at boot and choose which os you wanted to go into.
Also this is still only the release candidate so I'd definitely want to keep my XP install as well if I were you.
If you look in tutorials on the home page you'll find tutorials about dual booting. I've found them really useful

cheers, John

 

[dabooga]

Hang on. I'm not sure I understand. You have XP installed right?
I don't think you can upgrade from XP to Windows 7.
I think your only good choice is to dual boot. You would have to use something like gparted to shrink your XP install and then install W7 on a small partition ( at least 20GB )
Then you would get a choice at boot and choose which os you wanted to go into.
Also this is still only the release candidate so I'd definitely want to keep my XP install as well if I were you.
If you look in tutorials on the home page you'll find tutorials about dual booting. I've found them really useful

cheers, John

Thanks for the help but i checked Brink's tutorial and it requires booting from the Windows 7 disk in order to install on a partition, whereas i cant even get the installation started!

 

[johnwillyums]

No problem. I'm sorry I can't be more help. I notice that Brink and various other heavyweights are not online at the moment.
I'm sure you'll get some good advice soon, john

 

[dabooga]

No problem. I'm sorry I can't be more help. I notice that Brink and various other heavyweights are not online at the moment.
I'm sure you'll get some good advice soon, john

I appreciate your effort, Thanks.

 

[myzr7]

Hello Welcome to SevenForums,Dabooga

Hope that you have a good stay here on SF.
Try reburning your dvd at a slower speed like 1x or 2x

 

[limneos]

Hello Dabooga.

Since I've made over 30 installs so far to different PCs, I can tell you this:

Some particular PCs with their particular hardware (I believe it's either the memory, the ide controllers or the chipset in general,or a BIOS setting) take really long time at that screen where you're stuck...but then eventually the Select your language page appears...In some PCs I had to wait for over 10 minutes ...

So my guess is that after 3-4 minutes you got tired of waiting and kept restarting.. Let it for about 10-15 minutes do its searching and see if you will get the install screen eventually. It has happened to me for booting both from DVD and/or USB, so I don't think its the medium.Just wait for 10-15 minutes at that screen.

Note: after you choose your initial settings, there will be another long delay at the "setup is starting" screen... Don't get dissapointed there either . Just wait again. It is a problem that happens only during those setup steps, you wont have delays ever again using W7.

Hope this is your case . Hope it works.

Cheers