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Firstly, great forum. I regret that my first post is a problem.
I have just made a clean install of Windows 7 and everything went fine. I made a clean install from inside the W7 RC on a new SATA hard disk with a genuine Windows & Home Premium Disk. Installation only took about 30 minutes which I was very pleased with.
Everything seemed to be working fine, but after a few restarts (after installing software etc) "Windows 7" suddenly disappeared from the boot menu and was replaced by "Windows Setup". I get to a low res setup screen with the message "Setup Is Starting" and then after about two minutes I get the dreaded "Windows could not collect information for [OSImage] since the specified image file (install.wim) does not exsit" message! The computer then restarts and gets stuck into a loop.
I have searched on google and on this forum and it seems people get this error during install, not several restarts after.
The last program I installed before this problem was Avast Anti virus, I don't know if that could be causing the problem.
Can anyone help? I would very much appreciate any ideas anyone has,
Many thanks,
David
I have just made a clean install of Windows 7 and everything went fine. I made a clean install from inside the W7 RC on a new SATA hard disk with a genuine Windows & Home Premium Disk. Installation only took about 30 minutes which I was very pleased with.
Everything seemed to be working fine, but after a few restarts (after installing software etc) "Windows 7" suddenly disappeared from the boot menu and was replaced by "Windows Setup". I get to a low res setup screen with the message "Setup Is Starting" and then after about two minutes I get the dreaded "Windows could not collect information for [OSImage] since the specified image file (install.wim) does not exsit" message! The computer then restarts and gets stuck into a loop.
I have searched on google and on this forum and it seems people get this error during install, not several restarts after.
The last program I installed before this problem was Avast Anti virus, I don't know if that could be causing the problem.
Can anyone help? I would very much appreciate any ideas anyone has,
Many thanks,
David