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05 Feb 2012, 05:35

Ok I installed a home version of windows 7 64 bit on my desktop. I obtained a legal copy of windows 7 professional with sp1 and debug 64 bit. After much trials and tribulations I have finally made it to this point.

With a freshly formatted HDD that worked fine on Linux and would happily reinstall, I can only install the windows home. The computer continuously locks up at the identical point when I try to install the professional. * just as the color logo starts to appear* I have received a stop code and recorded it. I have received a check-sum error 1900 when re-flashing my bios. I am ready to pull my hair out at this point. I have tried numerous repairs. I cleaned the partitions and reformatted the hdd with a linux boot usb. I have use DISKPART to clean all and then format the disk. Still same issue as before. Any ideas? Please let me know what else is needed... The system has worked flawlessly until I tried to install the windows 7 professional. Something is corrupt I know but locating it seems impossible.

cpu amd black-box 3.2Ghz - not overclocked yet...
Ram Patriot ram 16gigs
PSU ocz 600w
MB gigabyte 880gm-usb3
HDD WD Green caviar

stop code *yes I have pored over the internet but it didnt answer my questions*

STOP: 0x0000007E (0xFFFFFFFFc0000420, 0xFFFFF880011777BE, 0x0FFFFF880009A58, 0xFFFFF880009A8180)
ACPI.sys - Address FFFFF880011777BE base at FFFFF88001152000, DateStamp 4ce7745a

Of course MS blew me off and will not give me any support. Again any help would be appreciated.

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deanelb1 09 Feb 2012, 23:02 #
I have had similar problems in the past with HDD's not installing Windows 7, I have found that in most cases using a utility called Super Disk has sorted this out. It can be downloaded free, just need to do a google search. I may be wrong, but the way that I read youre method of formatting the HDD is by using a lynux system disk, this may be the problem as I think that it is formatting to a lynux format and not that for windows. Please everyone don't shoot me if I have this bit wrong!!!
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