Can't install 7 or Vista

V-PV-P State College, PA Member
edited January 2010 in Science & Tech
I tried installing Windows 7 on my desktop today. If I boot into it, it gives me the "Windows is loading setup files" prompt. When it finally finishes loading, it stops doing anything. It gives me the nice high res background and it looks like it's about to load up the partitioning thing but it never does and the CD/DVD busy light is off. If I put in the Vista disc, same thing happens. After that, I thought I'd try upgrading to Vista from inside XP just to check if it works. It goes through the Copying Files prompt up to about 95% and then tells me the files are corrupt. If I put in the 7 disc, it tells me it's not an upgrade, which it's not so that's expected.

I have no idea what to do but I want to put 7 on it before I go back to school for my parents. Thanks for any help.

PS I even tried ripping the entire ISO of both discs to my external HDD and booting through USB but it does the same exact thing with that...

Comments

  • CycloniteCyclonite Tampa, Florida Icrontian
    edited December 2009
    Can you try a different optical drive?
  • V-PV-P State College, PA Member
    edited December 2009
    Cyclonite wrote:
    Can you try a different optical drive?

    Don't have another. Besides, since USB does the same thing it can't be the drive.
  • CycloniteCyclonite Tampa, Florida Icrontian
    edited December 2009
    Oh, sorry. I missed the last line. Try memtest.
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited December 2009
    Unless I'm missing something
    It goes through the Copying Files prompt up to about 95% and then tells me the files are corrupt
    This sounds like the cause of your problem. Bad disk. Copying a bad disk to a USB drive still gives you corrupt files.
  • pigflipperpigflipper The Forgotten Coast Icrontian
    edited December 2009
    What kryyst said, especially if you downloaded the ISO from digitalriver or MS. I had horrendous problems, until I called Microsoft and they sent me a Win7 Pro DVD for free. From what I can tell, this is not an isolated problem as my dad and sister had the same issues.
  • V-PV-P State College, PA Member
    edited December 2009
    pigflipper wrote:
    What kryyst said, especially if you downloaded the ISO from digitalriver or MS. I had horrendous problems, until I called Microsoft and they sent me a Win7 Pro DVD for free. From what I can tell, this is not an isolated problem as my dad and sister had the same issues.

    That's why I tried Vista and 7. I figured since Vista is telling me the files are corrupt, I'd try 7 but neither works. And I tried both on my laptop with no problems.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited December 2009
    Or the DVD-ROM is still bad and is copying bum files to USB.
  • CycloniteCyclonite Tampa, Florida Icrontian
    edited December 2009
    He said he ripped the ISO to USB. Otherwise, that would have been my next suggestion. Anyway, try memtest, then maybe do a HDD diag. Those are my typical first steps for such issues anyway.
  • V-PV-P State College, PA Member
    edited December 2009
    Cyclonite wrote:
    He said he ripped the ISO to USB. Otherwise, that would have been my next suggestion. Anyway, try memtest, then maybe do a HDD diag. Those are my typical first steps for such issues anyway.

    Ok, Can I do this from a 1 TB external drive? That's the only thing I have right now that I can boot from. I have data on it that I don't want to lose so is there anyway to boot into memtest without having to go through the hassle of creating a new partition or anything?
  • dodge_ram401dodge_ram401 Goshen, IN Member
    edited January 2010
    I worked weeks on installing 7 Ultimate. Some drivers I found regardless of what they say are not compatible with 7. My thread (http://icrontic.com/forum/showthread.php?t=86942) talks a little about it. What are your specs? My final answer was to disable my D-Link Network desktop adapter in safe mode, and use a Belkin Wireless 54G USB adapter.

    Dodge
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