Windows 7 Driving Me Crazy

[repairit]

Ok, I have run several fresh installs to Windows 7 without issue and this one has me stumped. I have a HP that I have completely wiped the partitions onthe drive to a unallocated state. I boot to a Iso provided by the customer from the Student sale of Win7 and choose Custom Install. I select the unallocated drive and select next. It starts the first step just fine, however when moving to the second step, it states that it cannot access the installation files. I have tried another copy that I installed on my personal computer and it does the same thing. Any ideas? I am at my wits end with this freaking machine.

 

[Tweak]

Usually whenever I have seen this I find it to be the optical drive, you could use a USB drive and get around it and install faster as well.

 

[repairit]

I'm frustrated right now and should probably let it go, but it’s really annoying. This whole thing would be a lot easier if a virus had not trashed explorer and the indexing system on his machine. On top of that, the same virus trashed the partition of his external drive. I managed to get it off, only to find the drive useless. Tried to recover only to find out that I don't have enough space on my NAS. Tried to reduce the load, but I cannot justifiably remove the backups already on it till they hit the 2 month mark. Guess it’s off to the store tomorrow for more storage.

I'll have to get into the shop in the AM and try out my external. Thank you for the idea, that had not occured to me.

 

[CompConfig]

Also, make sure to use Win 7 to format the drive before the install, then either use the USB drive as was suggested above or, after the format, boot with a boot CD or USB and copy the Win 7 install files onto the hard drive and run from there.

 

[goober0122]

I would say in my experience the best bet is to test the memory and hard drive before you attempt the installation again. Memtest86+ 4.0 and IBM DFT are good tools to use for this. The either use a USB optical drive or temporarily replace the optical drive in the machine. If it isn't one of these three things then who knows lol.

 

[repairit]

Issue was related to disc drive. Hooked up external and everything came up perfectly.

 

[numnutz]

I had a vista laptop machine with the exact issue it was a damaged sata hard drive. swapped it out with another one and it installed properlly

 

[Tweak]

Issue was related to disc drive. Hooked up external and everything came up perfectly.

Glad you posted back with the results, knowing you called it right is always good of course...hehe.