Hello,
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
I've been trying to fix my laptop (Acer Aspire) for about 2 months, and it's been a bit of a saga. I've tried lots of things, and have persisted because it's seemed like I've been gradually honing in on a solution, rather than chasing a lost cause.
I was on Vista, which came with the laptop, but then the laptop got very ill, to the point where I wanted to do the Acer factory restore, but this didn't work, nor did any of the various recovery options in Windows. I was worried that the hard drive was physically damaged, so I wanted to try formatting it, which I decided to try and do in the course of installing Windows 7. This didn't work, so instead I formatted the hard drive using Ubuntu, and then tried Windows 7 again. That didn't work, because the hard drive needed to be NTFS, so I re-formatted it as NTFS using GParted.
However, Windows 7 install still isn't working: it goes most of the way but then just hangs indefinitely on a black screen with 'Setup is updating registry files' written on it. I've googled this and it seems that this is quite a common problem when installing W7. However, the problem that I have is that all of the solutions offered are to do with booting up as normal and changing things in Control Panel etc, which obviously I can't do.
I can go into more details about what has happened if needed, but basically the state of play now is:
I need to install Windows 7 from a cd-rom I have, but it's not working.
I have no OS on my computer, and the hard drive is clean and formatted as NTFS. As such, I can't boot to a Windows desktop to try and apply a solution.
Tools I have at my disposal: 1 x Windows 7 install CD, 1 x Ubuntu 10.04 CD which I can boot from or install on the hard drive, 1 x Knoppix CD which I can boot from, 1 x GParted CD which I can boot from.
So basically, does anybody know of a way to fix whatever is preventing Windows 7 from installing, without being able to boot to a windows desktop?
Many thanks,
Chris
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
I've been trying to fix my laptop (Acer Aspire) for about 2 months, and it's been a bit of a saga. I've tried lots of things, and have persisted because it's seemed like I've been gradually honing in on a solution, rather than chasing a lost cause.
I was on Vista, which came with the laptop, but then the laptop got very ill, to the point where I wanted to do the Acer factory restore, but this didn't work, nor did any of the various recovery options in Windows. I was worried that the hard drive was physically damaged, so I wanted to try formatting it, which I decided to try and do in the course of installing Windows 7. This didn't work, so instead I formatted the hard drive using Ubuntu, and then tried Windows 7 again. That didn't work, because the hard drive needed to be NTFS, so I re-formatted it as NTFS using GParted.
However, Windows 7 install still isn't working: it goes most of the way but then just hangs indefinitely on a black screen with 'Setup is updating registry files' written on it. I've googled this and it seems that this is quite a common problem when installing W7. However, the problem that I have is that all of the solutions offered are to do with booting up as normal and changing things in Control Panel etc, which obviously I can't do.
I can go into more details about what has happened if needed, but basically the state of play now is:
I need to install Windows 7 from a cd-rom I have, but it's not working.
I have no OS on my computer, and the hard drive is clean and formatted as NTFS. As such, I can't boot to a Windows desktop to try and apply a solution.
Tools I have at my disposal: 1 x Windows 7 install CD, 1 x Ubuntu 10.04 CD which I can boot from or install on the hard drive, 1 x Knoppix CD which I can boot from, 1 x GParted CD which I can boot from.
So basically, does anybody know of a way to fix whatever is preventing Windows 7 from installing, without being able to boot to a windows desktop?
Many thanks,
Chris