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Windows 7 64 bit will not install

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clayman612

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Can some one here please help me.I have been trying to install windows 7 64 and for the life of me I cannot get it to install.I had 32 bit ultimate retail installed and since I have 8gb ram I wanted to take full advantage of it.I decided instead of buying it I would try one first before I bought a copy.So I have down loaded probably at least 6 different versions of 64 bit and they all do the exact same thing it installs and when it reboots the first time it either gets to the starting windows screen and just sets there the 4 colored panels never show up on screen then about 20 secs later it goes into the boot loop so many ppl have complained about I have tried everything unhooking everything off my sys that was not needed.I also have tried to go into the bios right after it goes to reboot and change the boot order to boot from the hard drive still same thing.GRRRRRRRRR this is really frustrating I am very computer literate and it is kicking my butt.The only thing I can think of is the hard drive I am trying to install the os on is an older samsung sata 160gb drive.Can some one please hed some light on my situation Thanks in advance
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Unplug secondary disk, redo setup, wipe partitions on main disk whem prompted, let windows re-create them..profit?

Oh, and if you overclock, load bios defaults first.
 
I've heard of people putting the jumper on the sata drive to force it into SATA I mode and supposidly someitmes works.
 
I tried your suggestions and it still won't do it.I installed windows xp 64 today just fine I am really frustrated about this Has anyone ran into this ???
 
Reset your bios back to stock values, unplug everything except 1 harddrive, 1 cd/dvd drive and run your cpu and ram at stock values.

Then try and reinstall.

Plug hdd into your first main sata port and if you have a sata dvd drive, plug that into a different sata port that is used by a different sata controller, aka marvell or something similar. and in your bios, see if you can run it in ide mode instead of ahci.

If you still have problems, see if you can run the hdd in ide mode also.

fail in that, try and run them both in ahci mode if your mobo supports it.

But reset your bios back to stock everything and make the hdd the second boot item, your cd/dvd first.

Also, check your bios for any 64bit options, as some bios have options that need to be enabled if you are running a 64b OS.
 
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It sounds like you're trying to install a pirated version of Win7. Who knows what has been injected into the installer that you're using



Try to pull all but one chip of RAM from your motherboard. Then re-run the install. It sounds stupid, but it may work.
 
Are you trying to upgrade? You can't upgrade 32 to 64, so you need to format your drive and start all over again. If you got into a boot loop you may need to take the drive out, hook it to another pc as a slave drive and use a partition manager to wipe all the partitions and start again.

There shouldn't be another reason why it won't install.
 
Unhook any other HDD's you have besides the one you are installing on.

Boot to the 7 x64 disc

When given option to Upgrade or Custom, choose Custom.

At the screen where you choose the HDD, click drive options (advanced). Delete the partitions you see in the window so that there is only 1 unpartitioned space left. "Disk 0 Unallocated Space". Nothing else.

Click that space and press next.
 
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