windows 7 wont install...

WSP · Feb 9, 2010

Go into the bios,onto the (most likely) advanced bios setup. Find s.m.a.r.t hardisk feature and set it to enable.see if it helps.my friend's mobo (gigabyte p35 chipset) wont install win7 when s.m.a.r.t is set to anything but enable

rufus65 · Feb 9, 2010

heres my settings under Advanced>Drive Configuration:

Use Automatic Mode: Enable
ATA/IDE Mode: Native
S.M.A.R.T.: Enable
Hard Disk Pre-Delay: [0]

Also, whats the difference between native and legacy, those are my options on my ATA/IDE Mode...

newtekie1 · Feb 10, 2010

Try Legacy.

rufus65 · Feb 10, 2010

okay i think i may have got it, but its really strange.

I downloaded the windows 7 Beta way back when... and i thought "since that was a trial of enterprise too, all i would have to do is extract the new product key and apply it to the old beta file"

and so far so good, im looking at 4 out of 5 green checks at the win7 setup screen, its completeing the install right now...

i dont know what changed but i just re-installed winXP home, connected my 2nd internal hard drive and card reader with my other stick of RAM [totalling 2GBs] and its working so far...

why would this work now? was it because i got a bad download file from microsoft?

Thrackan · Feb 10, 2010

rufus65 said:
okay i think i may have got it, but its really strange.

I downloaded the windows 7 Beta way back when... and i thought "since that was a trial of enterprise too, all i would have to do is extract the new product key and apply it to the old beta file"

and so far so good, im looking at 4 out of 5 green checks at the win7 setup screen, its completeing the install right now...

i dont know what changed but i just re-installed winXP home, connected my 2nd internal hard drive and card reader with my other stick of RAM [totalling 2GBs] and its working so far...

why would this work now? was it because i got a bad download file from microsoft?

Yes, you got a corruption in your download. I had the same issue with the RC.

rufus65 · Feb 10, 2010

okay, well if thats taken care of, i want to know why it didnt ask me for a product key? i let it go all night, cause i was doing windows updates, and to my knowledge there is no time bomb. where can i see when my time is up? cause remember, i installed a trial...

Thrackan · Feb 10, 2010

rufus65 said:
okay, well if thats taken care of, i want to know why it didnt ask me for a product key? i let it go all night, cause i was doing windows updates, and to my knowledge there is no time bomb. where can i see when my time is up? cause remember, i installed a trial...

I think your trial simply expires when it's done?

qubit · Feb 10, 2010

rufus65 said:
okay, well if thats taken care of, i want to know why it didnt ask me for a product key? i let it go all night, cause i was doing windows updates, and to my knowledge there is no time bomb. where can i see when my time is up? cause remember, i installed a trial...

It does eventually ask you for a product key - it's just not as in your face about product activation as XP was.

Your RC copy will also expire in June and start blue-screening every two hours from next month.

Thrackan · Feb 10, 2010

RC copies will:
- Display a notification from feb 15th
- Reboot every 2 hours from March 1st
- Give you a black desktop and activation notices additional to the bihourly shutdowns from June 1st

rufus65 · Feb 10, 2010

well, it hasent done anything like that...

should i be happy?

Thrackan · Feb 10, 2010

rufus65 said:
well, it hasent done anything like that...

should i be happy?

It won't do those things until those dates, at least on the Release Candidate version.
I'm not sure what the Enterprise trial will do.

cool_recep · Feb 10, 2010

It was either your ISO or your burning speed...

BTW, I am still unable to understand the relation between BIOS update and the Windows 7 Setup file not recognizing it. I mean Windows 7 disc has nothing to do when you are updating your BIOS.

ASRockIQ · Feb 10, 2010

try burning the Image File with ImgBurn and cool recep is right. BIOS should have nothing to do with what is going on with the setup beside you configuring the CD/DVD to boot first.

rufus65 · Feb 12, 2010

my boot order is my dvd drive first andtl then my hard drive. and i tried imgburn and it couldnt even read my iso file...

Thrackan · Feb 12, 2010

Then get a new ISO file.

HookeyStreet · Feb 12, 2010

rufus65 said:
my boot order is my dvd drive first andtl then my hard drive. and i tried imgburn and it couldnt even read my iso file...

well the image is naffed then because imgburn should work fine.

rufus65 · Feb 16, 2010

thanks for all the help, i have successfully installed win7 enterprise beta and its running perfectly. it did ask me for a product key and i now have the full edition...

Killura · Feb 16, 2010

I had the exact same problem on a new build, I just threw an older ide optical device into it and it installed no problem.

vbx · Feb 16, 2010

rufus65 said:
thanks for all the help, i have successfully installed win7 enterprise beta and its running perfectly. it did ask me for a product key and i now have the full edition...

How can a product key turn a beta into a full edition? Am I missing something?

rufus65 · Feb 16, 2010

i had the beta of windows 7 Enterprise, and i 'found' a product key, and i just entered it in and it said:

"Please open Microsoft Update to upgrade your current version of Windows 7 Enterprise *Trial Edition* to Windows 7 Enterprise *Full Edition*"

i don't know what it did but i now got it and im happy, i checked to make sure that it was legit and it was, no cracks, mods, glitches, viruses, etc. I have a full version of win7 Enterprise

*Off-Topic*
Now that i have that taken care of i do have one more question; How come when i burn an ISO file onto my disc it cant properly verify it? I have re-installed the program three times [all from different websites] and when i finish burning my ISO it keeps and giving my failed verification messages. is it because im using a DVD-R so it cant read the info?

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