HELP!! Win 7 wont install, brand new build, HELP!

[Dackz]

HELP!! I just built my new system, BRAND NEW western digital caviar 750 gig HD, gigabyte Ga-ma77ot-ud3p mobo, amd 955 black series CPU, sapphire 5850 gpu.

When I first turn it on, and try to install windows, it got to the part where it "copying files to windows" and then hung at 0% for about 5 minutes. So I kill it, restart, got the bootmgr missing error, changed my boot to DVD drive, went back in, tried installing again and it got to the same spot and hung, not even 1 restart cycle. Now Im formatting, the drive, trying to delete partion it put on there. One is unallocated space but its only 100meg, then disk 0 partition 1 says 698gig and under type its 'system', trying to format it but its taking forever...I have NO DRIVERS anywhere installed since its brand new, BUT, it does detect my DVD drive and the WD caviar. It detects my ram as well.

I dont even know what the problem could be. With my system it should just cook right along I would think. I have my 'old' HDD from my previous system, a seagate barracuda that has XP on it, but its a 'Dell' XP.

Maybe its the HDD? Its taking about 20 minuts right now on format, and still just sitting here. What to do? Im going to post this in the comp help section as well. Not sure where it should have went.

 

[SanDiegoPC]

Sure does sound like you need to try a different hard drive. Eliminate that as a possibility.

 

[Dackz]

It all gets going really slow though. I mean SLOW. It takes about 5 minutes to get the windows asking me for info of where I am from and what not.

Then it takes a frew more minutes to progress from the setup is starting screen.

I dont know, problem is I would just run XP from my old one but not sure it will work since this system aint a 'Dell". I dont know how to do install to new partition and how to boot from one to another, dont want to jack up a good drive that I was going to use for data

 

[Dackz]

Yup, DOA hard drive.....dang, oh well, I dont think HD will slow my perfmance much if at all

 

[sourceninja]

I have had 2 computers I've built for people take an insane amount of time to boot the install disk. To the point where I was sure the machines had froze. However windows xp install media booted normally.

Finally, I left one 'frozen' and went to lunch. When i came back it was ready to install. I did the install and everything worked perfectly.

This happened on two different builds. One amd and one intel. Nothing between the two was the same. Different types of ram, motherboards, hard drive manufactures, video cards (one was ati the other nividia). It confuses me to this day.

 

[TourGuide]

I have had 2 computers I've built for people take an insane amount of time to boot the install disk. To the point where I was sure the machines had froze. However windows xp install media booted normally.

Finally, I left one 'frozen' and went to lunch. When i came back it was ready to install. I did the install and everything worked perfectly.

This happened on two different builds. One amd and one intel. Nothing between the two was the same. Different types of ram, motherboards, hard drive manufactures, video cards (one was ati the other nividia). It confuses me to this day.

I've had this too here on two of the three rigs I've installed on at our house. Once you GET THROUGH the install, everything is fine. I wouldn't worry about it as long as you are able to get through the install. I think this is a common thing. My 1156 rig installed more quickly, but was still much slower to transition from section to section as compared to XP.

No worries man.

 

[Dackz]

I've had this too here on two of the three rigs I've installed on at our house. Once you GET THROUGH the install, everything is fine. I wouldn't worry about it as long as you are able to get through the install. I think this is a common thing. My 1156 rig installed more quickly, but was still much slower to transition from section to section as compared to XP.

No worries man.

Oh no, def a busted HD. It installed right up onto my other HD. The DOA HD is on its way back for a refund.

 

[sportage]

I've had things like this on clean installs using HDMI or DVI attached monitor. Switching to VGA connection, all went smootly. "After" the install, I switched back to HDMI and all was well. Was something about the monitor via DVI-HDMI hanging a clean install on "some" motherboards.