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Rick.
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| Ok, so i downloaded all the parts, burned the .iso on the cd, installed it and when at installation complete, my pc restarts, and then it shows a message: Installation failed and then it puts up exp again, ive tried the windows 7 upgrade advisor, no errors at all.
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| Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 1:38 pm Post subject: |
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| did you do an upgrade or clean install?
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| Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 2:36 pm Post subject: |
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Format your whole disk, just format it all. Then create a new partition.
Mind you all of this during the setup.
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| Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 2:39 pm Post subject: |
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Not required.
All, that's needed, is a clean install.
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Saifallofjmr
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| Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 2:44 pm Post subject: |
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| K, Grizzly wrote: | Not required.
All, that's needed, is a clean install. |
Well when they format it they just delete everything, not just write zeros over every piece. Format does mean different meanings for example
| Quote: | | Disk formatting is the process of preparing a hard disk or other storage medium for use, including setting up an empty file system. ... |
It does not necessarily mean to overwrite every single thing to all zeros. The reason for this is to let Windows 7 create the necessary 100MB partition to make sure it is correctly installed. I might be speaking out of my ass but until you have install Windows 7 at least 3 times try to let someone with experience who have used this Windows 7 and know the installation glitches that come with it.
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Karakawe
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| Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 3:09 pm Post subject: |
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I would rather not listen to somebody who needs to cite Wikipedia for a definition of what it means to format a drive. Three Windows installations means almost nothing. 
Thread useless pending OP response
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K, Alcohol
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| Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 3:13 pm Post subject: |
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I totally agree with this, but, as i said, its completely unneeded to format the drive to install _ANY_ operating system.
Else i should buy another 2 of 1TB WD Caviar Black HDDs just to back up my files, so i would be able to format >_>
It's absolutely pointless.
Now, if you are going to install on a certain partition - then its good to flush it, since manually deleting the unneeded anymore folders takes time. A format saves it 
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| Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 6:41 am Post subject: |
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I did a clean install, i'll try formatting then installing when i'm done with my homework. Thanks for all the help.
edit: Didn't work  , ill try an upgrade now.
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| Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 10:09 am Post subject: |
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| Are you sure you don't have a fucked disc? My first burn kept failing the install.
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| Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 10:16 am Post subject: |
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| slovach wrote: | | Are you sure you don't have a fucked disc? My first burn kept failing the install. |
I tried re-burning, also failed. No scratches whatsoever.
edit2: managed to get it installed.
any one perhaps nows a good virus scanner that works with W7?
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ESET, Kaspersky, Norton, and I think Avira will work. All very nice AVs, as long as you stay updated and are running the latest version. Of course, don't use more than one at a time.
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| Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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Windows Security Essentials just came out.
I've been using it today, no problems yet. (It's low-resource which is the main reason why I'm using it.)
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| Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 7:53 am Post subject: |
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| Madman wrote: | Windows Security Essentials just came out.
I've been using it today, no problems yet. (It's low-resource which is the main reason why I'm using it.) |
Thanks, i'm trying it now.
thanks for all the help guys, i guess this topic can now be closed.
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