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I have a comp that is able to run 64 bit as I have had vista 64 on it before. I have 3 hd's two are blank 250 and 500 gb and a 1.5t I have nothing plugged into comp as in printers and such as I thought that might be the problem not it. I can open 32 bit in windows xp and run it but not 64 and am...

[SOLVED] 0xc00000e9 After Install Wow... This install is driving me nuts. I've never had this much trouble installing an operating system. Here goes.. I'm trying to get Windows 7 64-bit installed. First I was getting an error about corrupt files during extraction, so I swapped out my RAM and...

I am trying to upgrade my HP a1719n from Vista SP2 to Windows 7 Home Premium (using the upgrade DVD) without having to do a clean install. Before the installation starts I get this message. The following issues are preventing Windows from upgrading. Cancel the upgrade, complete each task...

I just installed Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit edition RTM and it boots fine, works great, etc. The system is a dual 3.4ghz Xeon socket 604 on a TYAN motherboard. The only real issue so far is with drives. I have a 1.5 terabyte SATA drive and 2 IDE 160gb drives. I have 32bit XP sp3 on the 1.5 tb...

Hi, I am running winows 7 (very successfuly i might add) anyway i have a compaq desktop quite old which has a 160GB SATA HDD i want to add a 160GB IDE HDD (because its free) but no matter what changes i make in the bios the machine always boots from the IDE which i only want to use for storage...

Hello all, sorry for yet another post on this subject but I have tried all the other ones to no avail....so I installed Windows 7 way back during the beta and right from the get go have had this problem. I install fine and get into windows then take out the DVD and low and behold bootmgr is...

Well hello I am new to these forums but not a total idiot but cant figure out this problem. So i recently bought new computer parts and built it myself. the parts are: XFX 750i motherboard XFX 8600gt 512mb DDR2 450w Power Up psu Angstram 2GB DDR2 667MHz Ram I am using an IDE HDD I...

Ok, i have finally got Windows 7 to install. I love it! Anyway, it would not install if i were to put it in my older IDE DVD drive. I installed it via my other SATA DVD drive which went as it should've. After installing Windows 7, i hooked my IDE drive back up and Windows will detect it but...

As a new user of Windows 7, I wonder if anyone can help? I recently installed Windows 7 on a partition on my 200GB IDE HDD. I tried to install the SATA driver for my SATA HDD but Windows 7 doesn't recognise it. The driver is on my AS Rock motherboard CD AA1697-11. The driver is installed OK on...

I mounted the ISO image on drive X: using deamon tool.After clicking Install Windows 7 the screen shows copying files....and then the error message pops up. "Windows Setup cannot find a location to store temporary files.To install Windows,make sure that a partition on your boot disk has 685...

Trying to upgrade to RC x64 (from beta 7077; should be possible). I get this error: Windows default drivers are installed and it can't find any updates. My motherboard. Any tips? I'd be willing to do a clean install, but I don't really want to have to set everything up again. I have a...

I have a Intel D101GCC Motherboard 3.0 G Hz processor 2 GB DDR RAM with 80 GB IDE/PATA Hard drive and a 500 GB SATA Hard Drive. Currently running XP I tried to intsll a fresh VISTA. whenever i try do a fresh intsallation the DVD load all files then the installation stall on a screen with...

I have an older system currently running Vista Home Premium x64. It is a Biostar K8NHA Grand nForce 3 250 chipset board, Athlon 64 3400+ (2.4Ghz) CPU, 2Gb ram, MSI GeForce 7600GT 512mb AGP video card, Maxtor 340Gb IDE HD and an NEC IDE DVD burner. Runs Vista x64 fine, only used connected to a TV...

hi guys, i need help. i am not sure it's windwos 7 problem or my configurations i tried to install windows 7 RC on the below setup (all new), but failed 1. SATA harddisk, WD Cavier 1T 2. mobo, Gigebyte GA-GM-785-S2H 3. SATA optical drive. LG-GGC... the last two components work fine if i...

I have a 300GB NTFS IDE secondary hard drive, and when i put RC 1 on my computer, it didnt recognize it. i switched back to my Vista 64bit and it is recognized again. Anybody know a solution to this?

I have a SATA Raid setup that I don't want to mess with. I added a seperate IDE hard drive that I am going to install Windows 7 on. I tried to install Windows with the IDE set up as a slave. This did not work. I then disconnected the SATA setup and set the IDE jumpers to master. The install is...

I had this problem with beta build 7077 and now with rc1. If I leave my computer for a while it will stop responding to my mouse clicks and key presses, but my mouse will still move. This used to only happen overnight, but now it's happening sometimes after a few hours. Sometimes if I hit...

I cannot find anyone with my exact issues on multiple forums. I successfully downloaded the legit RC, from Microsoft. burn to an image using the 7 beta iso burner. states successfully burned. Went to install and it Hung at the starting windows section. Did not get in to wipe drive or anything...

Hi, I installed first Windows XP in a IDE hard disk, then installed Windows 7 (7100) 64 Ultimate in a SATA hard disk. The Windows 7 and the dual booting were working perfectly. Today, I disconnected the IDE hard disk with the Windows XP and try to boot my computer only with the Windows 7 and...

Here are the system specs that I am running at 1. AMD Phenom 2 940 3GHz Quad Core processor AM2+ 2.Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-UD4H (not really sure that is what it says on the manual) 3. Ide Hard disk 250 gig (master) 4. Ide Cd Drive on (slave) - reason only one IDE slot 5. PC8400 Ram at 1033 MHz...