Unable To Proceed OS Installation On New Hard Disk?
Mar 7, 2012
My SONY VAIO VPCEB15FX laptop has been getting the S.M.A.R.T failures. I checked with SONY and since my laptop is more than 12 months old - could not get them to help me with this issue without paying (laptop started having issues exactly after 15 months- not so good for a branded laptop). So i thought i will try to handle this myself, created the recovery discs, repair disk and backed up all the data in 15 DVDs. I bought a WD Scorpio Blue hard drive (WD5000BPVT - Advanced Format Drive) and replaced the same in my laptop and started off with the recovery discs. I chose to restore complete system and it proceeded. Once it completed the process - the system restarted and the OS Setup began - now comes the issue. When the setup started it throws this error "Windows setup could not configure Windows to run on this computer's Hardware" I ordered the SONY recovery discs - repeated the above RESTORE process - but still facing the same error?
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Apr 11, 2011
I put my computer to return to the "out of the factory" settings but the computer died while it was setting up the starting services. Now everytime i turn it on it says Setup startng services. But and error message comes out that says " the computer restarted unexpectedly or encountered an unexpected error. Windows installation cannot proceed. To install windows , click "oK" to restart the computer, and then restart the installation" I press enter and it just restarts and does the same like a loop.
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I've tried 2 sets of nonrefundable recovery disks from gateway, AND 2 different hard drives, and at the end of recovery, it always reports the same thing as it it setting up Windows for the first time: " The computer restarted unexpectedly or encountered an unexpected error. Windows installation cannot proceed. To install Windows, click "OK" to restart the computer, and then restart the installation." If it's not the recovery disks, and not the hard drives, what else could it be? It's a beautiful 17" machine that we got for our grandfather's 70th birthday, and after 1 year, the manufacturer wants us to pay $300+ shipping for them to see it.
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English is not my first language but i m trying to express my problem, i had a system with windows7 OS then i installed Ubuntu as a dual boot system but some thing happens it removed windows 7 from list. When i used Ubuntu i don't liked it very much so once again change to windows 7 environment... but now my whole drive is not showing , it showing only partial drive. note i don't have any PC to make my hard disk secondary.
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I cant finish my windows installation on My sony vaio laptop for some reason, I never reach the point where I need to choose my computer name and settings. because before that I recieve a message stating "The computer restarted unexpectedly or encounter and unexpected error. Windows installation cannot proceed." and before it reaches that error screen I notice weird glitches on the computer screen. Is it possbile that my CPU is damage?
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I have a 2.8 Ghz, P4 processor with 768 (512 + 256) MB ram and an Asus p5rd1-vm motherboard with a 128 MB ATI-Radeon Graphics Card. I have been running Windows XP for years. I have decided to upgrade to Windows 7 finally after reading all the reviews. However, During installation, my hard disk is not being detected (There is no drive on screen which I can format or set up on.) Can anyone help? Do I need to update my BIOS?Also, I recently changed my hard disk (upgraded it) and XP has been installed and is running fine.
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Mar 10, 2011
I'm building my first pc and I'm getting blocked right at the gate. I have a 64bit Windows 7 installation disk (home version, "for system builders" ). This is a fresh installation, I don't have any other OSs for this build so my options are limited.
It starts out fine, but when I get to the point where I am to pick a hard drive to install to, it won't accept anything. It will allow me to delete partitions but clicking on "New" or "Format" (under the advanced options) makes it think for a few seconds, then just stop like nothing happened.
I have tried formatting it through gparted, but no matter what I do it complains that the drive has been formatted with in GPT, even when the drive is completely clean and unformatted.
I'm using a Samsung Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1tb hard drive
on the MSI P67A-GD65 mobo
with intel i7 2600k.
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Aug 8, 2012
I have bought a new laptop (DOS installed) and trying to install windows7 After i installed windows 7, i can see only 30 gb drive in "My computer" (500 gb hard disk) When iam trying to create new volume in disk management on unallocated space iam getting a prompt that "this action will convert the disk to dynamic disk" when i proceeded with clicking ok i get an error message saying "Not enough space on the disk to perform the operation" Even in the windows installation screen iam unable to select the unallocated space and format. I can see the options "format", "delete" disabled for the partitions I can see the options enabled for only few partitions. This is a brand new laptop with DOS installed and iam installing the windows for first time.how can i partition the hard disk and format?
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Aug 8, 2012
I have bought a new laptop (DOS installed) and trying to install windows7After i installed windows 7, i can see only 30 gb drive in "My computer" (500 gb hard disk)When iam trying to create new volume in disk management on unallocated spaceiam getting a prompt that "this action will convert the disk to dynamic disk"when i proceeded with clicking ok i get an error message saying "Not enough space on the disk to perform the operation"Even in the windows installation screen iam unable to select the unallocated space and format.I can see the options "format", "delete" disabled for the partitionsI can see the options enabled for only few partitions.This is a brand new laptop with DOS installed and iam installing the windows for first time.
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Sep 11, 2011
I am preparing a laptop for sale, and have carried out a fresh install of Windows (booting from recovery CD). During this process, I selected 'Custom installation'followed by the hard disk partition containing my personal data and 'Drive options (advanced)', followed by 'Delete'. Is this a secure method of erasure or should I take additional precautionary steps before selling?
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May 19, 2012
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Apr 16, 2012
somehow my hard disk partition became dynamic. i formatted system and insttaled windows 7 ultimate in the dynamic disk partition. from then onwards system is not booting. only black screen with cursor on the upper left corner of the black screen.
if i am not wrong windows 7 cannot boot with dynamic disk. i will have to go to the disk management and after conversion of dynamic disk to basic disk with deleting all the volumes (data). it is possible to boot with windows 7.
but system is not booting...not opening..so i cannot go to disk management.
hrad disk is showing some partitions with system reserved. except system reserved all the partitions are shwoing dynamic. and in only one partition formatting option and installing OS option is coming while i booting system with OS DVD.
reinstalltion through OS DVD is possble by booting through OS DVD. but in advanced option repartition option is not coming. the one partition in which i installed OS previously, only in that formatting option is coming. in other partition neither formating option is coming nor extend.
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May 26, 2012
I formatted and installed windows 7 64 bit in a pc which previously had windows 7 32 bit. When i booted my 1tb dynamic disk was not detected. So I went into disk management and it had listed my disk as "Foreign Disk". So i imported the foreign disk.
The drive was detected and opened. So i rebooted the pc but now the drive is still not appearing in my computer. When i go to disk management the 1tb appears but there is no drive letter assigned. When i try to assign drive letter it statest that "Specified File cannot be found"
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Nov 11, 2012
Originally got message - Disk read error occurred press ctl alt del to restart. Then tried plugging this drive using a USB connector into my desktop PC to see if I could run some chkdsk. Then my desktop PC displayed messages telling me my firewall and virus software had been turned off and the computer crashed. ROOTKIT? So I was left with 2 drives not working. I re installed windows on desktop but using ISO on flash drive BUT can't on the 500GB Hitachi HTS545050B9SA00 for some reason. Windows setup loaded and Deleted old partitions and formatted. When I tried to install, it froze. It now just boots up with a windows loading screen and I'm also unable to boot from flash drive as it freezes. This is on a Sony Vaio VPCEB4E4E.
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Nov 26, 2012
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Aug 14, 2012
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Mar 29, 2012
im usin 2tb segate new hard disk sir..in my system i cant able to boot my os and also my hard disk...its showin that hard disk boot failure insert system disk press enter ...i restarted many times its sayin the same problem...in my gigabite mobo bios my hard disk is not get detected sir....the problem is that wen im installin the new os for 2nd time its all went nice only sir but at the completion of the os it wil ask for the user name and password but in my system its frozen sir fully of black screen and i cant able to do anythin so i restarted my system from that im gettin this error as hard disk boot failure insert system disk press enter.....that my new hard disk and all of my data is in that hard disk only..this problem arises wen im installing the os for 2nd time sir.
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Sep 10, 2012
I have IOmega 1 TB hard drive. 2 days ago, my comp restarted suddenly after which my external drive is corrupted.I get the error 'H: is not accessble' The disk structure is corrupted and unreadable.It shows up in the disk management as RAW file system,I have almost 700 GB of important documents, pictures & files that I don't want to lose.Does anybody know of any good recovery software that can help.
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Jul 20, 2011
in my hardisk with G: size 465gb xp shows that 74.86 gb is remaining space......while space used is 0 , there are no hidden files, nothing in the disk K: size 186gb same as above and remaining is 35 gb according to windows xp i: size 196gb .in this only 9 gb is used and xp shows that 10gb is remaining//
i remember, last week everything was ok and all of sudden this problem has occurred. all other drives are ok only these three are way over their own heads.
my system is
Intel Core i5-2300 cpu@2.8ghz
2.79ghz,3.48 GB of RAM
and windows is 32 bit/
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second thing is I don't have my vista installation disk with, my laptop was pre-installed with vista so in future if I want to switch can I get back VISTA using system restore.
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Jan 19, 2012
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Dec 13, 2010
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Sep 28, 2012
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