Recent content by Failman

I get a disk read error when I try it. After I pick to boot from external usb, black screen. I'm trying to install windows 7 64 bit on a computer that has a single, new HDD on it. Of the several discs I've burned, one gives me a cd/dvd device driver error, the other gives me an endless reboot...

Well for one, the dead hard drive won't work even when I hook it up to this computer. I think it may have had something to do with a storm that happened a few days ago. It started storming in the middle of the night and woke me up, but I turned the power off and unplugged the pc ASAP. No nearby...

All right, I've got my dvd of windows 7 (4x write speed ok?) and I'm about to try booting it on the problem computer. Pretty sure I'm gonna need help with diskpart. I don't really know for sure how to partition it. Could you tell me exactly how to get it ready for windows 7 with diskpart? Which...

Hm, I'll try formatting during the install if I can. I'll let you know how it goes.

Ok, ubuntu installed. Just wanted to make sure the system's working and all. Now I need to format it again, but I don't want to have to unhook the hdd and hook it up to this computer to do it. Can I just run "try ubuntu" from the cd, and use gparted to format it/edit the partitions even though...

Well it didn't work, still got the same error. I'm worried it's a problem with another piece of hardware, as in hardware failure...could it be even though I got as far as I did? I'm gonna eventually format it again since it's in the loop, then try to install ubuntu for the first time instead of...

Actually right now I have the new hard drive in this PC. I'm formatting it right now, since I think that's what it needed in the first place to install right, plus the small "system reserve" partition was marked as the active partition. I'm Kind of confused about how to best go about preparing...

Ok, so long story short my hard drive died. I had to get a brand new one, but I don't have any OS disc since they never included the disc with my PC. I 'got' windows 7 home premium 64 bit edition, went through the install, got to completing installation, then just as it finished it told me some...