Recent content by tomb75

Well, yes, there WAS an operating system on the machine before, but I wanted to do a clean install with Win 7 so I got rid of the previous OS by formatting the drive (there was a corrupted system file in my previous Vista installation which could not be repaired, due to a dodgy Seagate external...

No, there was no OS on it. I was formatting from the command prompt from the boot manager launched from the windows 7 dvd... i'm not sure what it's technical name is - the command prompt that pops up when you do shift F10... you can format the whole disk because you're not using any of the files...

BTW the screen has now gone black but the machine is still switched on... Been like that for about 10 mins - no, sorry, my fault, it was just the screen saver

Previously it was Vista Home Premium 32 bit

The drive has 2 partitions, the first is about 200 GB in size (which is where I am installing Windows) and the second is about 10 GB in size (and used to contain the HP recovery files).

No, I formatted it by pressing shift F10 and from the command line typing: format C: /q to quick format the C: partition where the installation is. By the way, I went out and left the computer for about 4 hrs and I have now got to a slick looking screen saying "Setup is preparing your...

Hi, I'm doing a fresh clean install of windows 7 home premium 32 bit off a retail DVD. Computer is an HP Pavilion dv3114tx with 2 Gigs of RAM and a NVIDIA GeForce 8400 graphics card. Doing a fresh install onto a newly formatted partition of the hard drive. The installation gets past the...