I’ve encountered numerous problems while installing windows 7, I figured id post the issues and solutions here so other people don’t go as insane as I did during the install process.
My first issue was it windows 7 freezing at the blue flowery splash screen thing. It would sit there and do nothing, waited for over an hour to make sure I wasn’t giving up too soon, it wasn’t me. But it was my BIOS! The solution to that issue was flashing my BIOS to the newest version. At that point I was able to get to the next step
My second problem was windows 7 not recodnizing any of my harddrives. I have 3 perfectly functional sata drives and it kept throwing different errors ranging from cannot detect hard disk to unable to load drivers for harddisk. I unplugged all but the drive I wanted to install to and never saw the error again.
My next issue was the install freezing at “completing installation” after a lot of googleing and yelling (yelling was not entirely nessesary, but I reccomend it to keep you sane during this process) I discovered I needed to delete all the partitions on the drive I was installing windows 7 to. And NOT format the drive. Just delete the partitions, leave them as unallocated space, and click next. Windows will automaticly create a 100mb system drive (no fuckin clue why) and use the remaining space as your OS drive. The the install will progress from there. The first time I did this though the install spazed out and threw up disk unreadable errors. If that happens just reboot and try again. Your harddrive and windows 7 dvd are probobally fine. Its just microsoft being tards
The last problem I had was windows 7 angered me too much after the crappy install process. The solution to this issue is extreemly fast and stable, works every time. Install ubuntu.
Note: this post is being composed and updated while I’m installing. I’m posting from my phone so ill fix typos later. And update with any further issues I have
