Windows 7 and a older Motherboard and Video card

[Mr 672A]

Just a quick question.
When I use to install XP I had to use a old 4x3 monitor as when I used my widescreen 16x9 monitor the installing files but mainly the press F8 to agree to terms and conditions was out of screen thus you did not see what you had to do next. Does Win 7 have this problem. I would expect you can use an USB mouse and keyboard on a Win 7 install. I could not use the USB mouse and keyboard with a XP install, I had to dig out my PS2 stuff.

[Philquad]

after 1000 installs you sort of work it out
there is more after u do this, but ill leave it till then

[Philquad]

shouldnt do
i just clean installed mine yesterday (hence the info)
was worried of my wireless usb mouse
no prob, it worked from start
boot to cd usually only gets 800x600 res as theres no drivers for vga, bit like safe mode
only thing was i had no full screen until i installed nvidia drivers for my card

[pandorf]

I have Win 7b 64-bit and even though there was no specific driver for my very old scanner (about 15 yo), it worked quite well with a generic one that windows found.

However having said that I bought an Epson Printer with Scanner built in for less than $100 and it scans much, much faster than the old scanner.

[Mr 672A]

pretty str8 forward, but before you ask, i might just tell you
unplug any old hard drives for the moment, hook up new sata, go into bios & set cd as 1st boot, put cd in. press any key to boot to cd when asked
have a stubby
when its ready, it will offer custom install, take it, then you can make a 200gb partition for windows by selecting the new button & put in 200,000
leave the rest, let it install to the 200gb partition,
have 2 stubbies
welcome to windows 7
once installed, you can go to cpanel, disk manage, & allocate the rest of the disk as say 2x 400gb partitions (e & f)
this is for safe storage & backing up so when windows claps out 1 day(it will) you wont have to ask us how to recover all the data you lost on c drive
have 5 more stubbies

< pretty pictures>

Well I'm finally installing Win 7
1/ When i fired the puter up with Win 7 disk in it I was not prompted like XP to hit any key to boot from CD
2/ The Windows logo appears and hangs there for 5 minutes.
3/ A pretty blue screen appears with a flower and bird with my mouse pointer being active(working)
4/ I'm still waiting No options, no do I agree with terms and condition has come up yet and the puter has been running the install for around 8 minutes but nothing is moving "eg" DVD Led, HDD Led.

Is this normal?

[Mr 672A]

Its finally started!!

[Mr 672A]

Expanding Windows files has reached 11% and a message appeared on the screen saying "The wrong volume is in the drive. Please insert volume GSP 1RMCHPFREO_EN_DVD into drive D:" and gives you three options:
Cancel
Try again
Continue

What seems to be simple once again is not. By the way, I did not format the partition that the operating system lives on.

[Mr 672A]

I have stopped the installation.

[Philquad]

you may need a better dvd drive, you said its a new "legit" copy of win 7?
follow from here, try again

you need to split that hard drive up

[Mr 672A]

you may need a better dvd drive, you said its a new "legit" copy of win 7?
follow from here, try again

you need to split that hard drive up

A/ The drive is about 10 years old
B/ a legit copy of Win 7
C/ When I re-fire the computer up and hit enter before the monitor lights up I them get the message to press any key to boot from CD. after this it brings up a menu to continue installation.

After I select English so, on,so on, Keyboard so on so on, the Installing Windows comes up.

1/ Coping Windows files Ticked
2/ Expanding Windows Files It hangs there for 10 minutes on 12% and I'm waiting for that message to come up again.

I will read that info you gave me.

[Mr 672A]

Yep the same message just came up again.
"The wrong volume is in the drive. Please insert volume GSP 1RMCHPFREO_EN_DVD into drive D:" and gives you three options:
Cancel
Try again
Continue

[Mr 672A]

you need to split that hard drive up

The 1TB drive was set up.
100 MB yes MB not GB for system Reserved (or something like that)
196GB for the operating system
remainder for backup or whatever (my own personal stuff)
What do you recommend I should split the drives up to after windows steals 100MB for itself, P.S. I think it was 100M/B

[Philquad]

it does that 100mb thing, don worry
keep hitting try again, see if it will continue
even continue, may be some thing not needed
you cant hurt it, at worse, you go back to the partition bit & start over

[Mr 672A]

Ok will give it a go.
I can buy a SATA DVD Burner (IDE Not Available as you would expect) on ebay. Have read on sites that It could be old CD/DVD burner related problem

[Philquad]

sounds like a disk read error
its the only hard drive plugged in right?
so your installing to a new hdd on a 200gb partition,
only other possibility is its in ide mode not ahci mode in the bios
but id say its your drive
rip the one out of what your typing on?

[Mr 672A]

sounds like a disk read error
its the only hard drive plugged in right?
so your installing to a new hdd on a 200gb partition,
only other possibility is its in ide mode not ahci mode in the bios
but id say its your drive
rip the one out of what your typing on?

Yes the new SATA drive in plugged in ok and its new being installed on a partition of 200GB, I checked in the BIOS and it finds the SATA drive ok, I had a look for this AHCI mode and could not find anything only IDE and SATA 1 to 4. The one im typing on is IDE and does not support SATA. Itsstopped on 12% again and waiting for that message again

[gordon_s1942]

Phil and his 'Have X Stubbies' between each step reminds me of a relative who was going to a hospital he had never been to before to visit a sick relative and asked how far it was from the Railway station to be told '5 Pubs' and sure enough on counting, there were indeed 5 Pubs !!
He was slightly put out because he wasnt able to stop at each going TO the Hospital but he certainly did when he left the Hospital.

[Mr 672A]

Phil and his 'Have X Stubbies' between each step reminds me of a relative who was going to a hospital he had never been to before to visit a sick relative and asked how far it was from the Railway station to be told '5 Pubs' and sure enough on counting, there were indeed 5 Pubs !!
He was slightly put out because he wasnt able to stop at each going TO the Hospital but he certainly did when he left the Hospital.

I don't drink but I might have to after this.

[Mr 672A]

Just some general info, all our computers have removable IDE hard disc trays, so it was so easy to shut down the new SATA drive and push back in my sick old IDE that had the Wndows XP problems, so I decided to install Windows 7 on this sick hard drive. Well as expected, it installed Windows 7 (expanding files) up to 12% and stopped, exactly as to what my brand new SATA drive has been doing. Now, I am swapping my DVD/CD burners around from my main computer to the Windows 7 computer to see if this mystery 12% stopping at 12%. Back in a few minutes with the reports guys as I have just started the installation of Windows 7 with the other DVD/CD burner

[Mr 672A]

Well this time the Installation was slightly different but was prompted by Windows stating that my DVD/CD burner requires drivers to continue installing windows. It asked me for a driver from a CD or a floppy drive which I don't have so it then asked me to search the Win 7 disk for available drivers which it did but found none and because of this it gave me no option but to abort the Win 7 installation. Looks like I will have to buy that SATA CD/DVD Burner on ebay.