Windows 7 troubles with booting up

[GreenWood]

When I started with drive was just raw - I am still getting that error however. only change has been that the "File:" listed alternates between the BCD and winload.exe

 

[Night Hawk]

Without the drive being partitioned and formatted the installation couldn't proceed there while the drives on the other systems already had existing primaries to work with. The one thing you can try now is the startup repair tool in the repair tools section on the dvd you made when booting from that again. http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/681-startup-repair.html

Note even when the installation succeeds forgetting to go back into the bios to see the hard drive made the default boot device will often prevent a normal startup if the mbr entries and boor files and boot loader are on good. On prebuilds while no floppy drive is seen the boards used will tend to have the floppy search option still enabled when they ship from the factory!

 

[GreenWood]

alright here's what I did after I got the last error....

1. Got really ticked off.
2. went to find a different HDD (found a 10.2gb one) - it had windows 98 on it.
3. unplugged original Win 7 hdd.
4. Set the jumper on the 10gb hdd to master. plugged that hdd in.
5. ran the Win 7 install for that hdd.
6. after the reboot, setup continued as normal.
7. Read Night Hawk's last post.
8. Set HDD back to 1st boot device.
9. Put in original Win 7 hdd.
10. Same error.

I guess it was a bad hard drive then? At least I got it working, im excited about that for shure =)
Maybe my 'newer' computer COULD see that there were errors on the HDD and the others couldn't? *shrugs*

 

[DocBrown]

Are you saying it installed on the 10gb HD ?

 

[GreenWood]

Are you saying it installed on the 10gb HD ?

Yes. It successfully installed on the 10gb HDD.
I noticed when in the setup when i accidently clicked on "unallocated space" the little yellow (!) on the bottom so I clicked it (I was curious) and it told me said Setup requires minimum of 5.5gb of space

 

[DocBrown]

Wow, I think the smallest HD I used on a " dinosaur" was 40gb.

Of course 10gb doesn't leave any room for many programs or files, but at least you could surf & check email.


Looking at my old HD collection to do some testing !

http://www.sevenforums.com/performa...-oldest-dinosaur-running-win7.html#post111348

Just keep up the trial & error testing

" Doc "

 

[GreenWood]

went to My Computer -I've got 1.4gb Free of 9.5gb
Pretty darn close xD

Thanks to Everyone who posted their ideas and tips/hints. I'll remember them for future installs. =)

 

[Night Hawk]

I'm surprized it went on at all if you didn't reformat the drive to NTFS right from the start since 7 is still seeing NTFS as the native while seeing the support for accessing Fat 32/exFat volumes now added back in for things like external hard drives, ush flash drives, etc. there.

A clean install of 7 doesn't actually take up the minimum 16gb recommendation seen by MS. It runs about 7-8gb roughly just fitting on the small drive. But besides the tight quite limited drive space you have the problem of no Vista updates available to start with on any of those old systems there.

 

[wallyinnc]

Wow, I think the smallest HD I used on a " dinosaur" was 40gb.

Of course 10gb doesn't leave any room for many programs or files, but at least you could surf & check email.


Looking at my old HD collection to do some testing !

http://www.sevenforums.com/performa...-oldest-dinosaur-running-win7.html#post111348

Just keep up the trial & error testing

" Doc "

Doc, it makes me soooo curious to try to install Win7 bon my old PIII, 512MB RAM. I thouht it would never run, I bever tried.
Bad is that I paid $1600 for it. When it was up to date, about 10 years ago...

 

[Night Hawk]

Someone here mentioned trying 7 out on a PII with only 128mb of memory some time back. I forgot which thread that was on. I doubt you could do much with it even install drivers while there was mention of an install with only 64mb on the same system! :shock:

 

[wallyinnc]

Tks Night Hawk. I agree, I would have doubted that could run Win95....

 

[Night Hawk]

Actually 95 would run great with 64mb in! I had on one old IBM I386 with only 16mb and upgraded 3.1 to 95 there. I barted with another tech for a 486 job seeing 32mb where the next move at the time into 98 is where things got slow again.

Later when finally being in XP for a few years I bumped the ram up from 1gb to 2gb and ... (eyes opened wide) the real difference could be seen there. That being the minimum for Vista, 7 would simply ring circles around the two previous versions with the same amount of memory!