{"id":202,"date":"2009-09-07T15:12:26","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T22:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cchsu.com\/art-en\/?p=202"},"modified":"2009-09-07T15:12:26","modified_gmt":"2009-09-07T22:12:26","slug":"troubleshooting-windows-7-installation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cchsu.com\/art-en\/2009\/09\/07\/202\/","title":{"rendered":"Troubleshooting Windows 7 Installation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve started installing Windows 7 on my machines, and most of them install like a breeze.  However, winds changed when I attempted to install Windows 7 on Gateway GM5485E.  I think it&#8217;s worth to note here since there are quite a few tricks involved.<\/p>\n<p>I bought the Gateway machine from Costco two years ago.  It had an IDE CD-ROM, and SATA hard drive.  Unfortunately Windows 7 installer does not like this configuration at all: it will tell you CD\/DVD driver missing right after booting from the DVD.  I&#8217;ve Google&#8217;d the web a bit and there are several suggestions floating around:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><font color=\"red\">Update BIOS settings<\/font>: this does not work with my Gateway machine<\/li>\n<li><font color=\"red\">Mount install.wim to get the driver<\/font>: this is BS, it does not work.<\/li>\n<li><font color=\"green\">Boot and install from USB<\/font>: this works!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the summary (and safer) way to create a Windows 7 bootable USB stick.  First, you need to format the USB stick in Disk Management.  <b>Right-click Computer<\/b>, select <b>Manage<\/b>, which will bring up Computer Management.  Select <b>Disk Management<\/b>, which shall show your USB stick.  Select the partition that&#8217;s already on your USB stick, then select <b>Action<\/b>, <b>All Tasks<\/b>, <b>Format<\/b> to format the partition as NTFS.  Again <b>Action<\/b>, <b>All Tasks<\/b>, <b>Mark Partition as Active<\/b>.  So you will have an Active and Primary partition on your USB stick.<\/p>\n<p>Now launch a Command Prompt as Administrator.  Put the Windows 7 DVD into DVD drive.  Suppose the DVD is in D: and your USB stick is U:, then we need to type following commands:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nC:\\Windows\\System32&gt;<b>d:<\/b><br \/>\nD:\\&gt;<b>cd boot<\/b><br \/>\nD:\\boot&gt;<b>bootsect \/nt60 u:<\/b>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Go back to Disk Management and check if U: is now System and Active.  If so, copy over everything on D: into U:, and this USB stick is ready to rock-n-roll!<\/p>\n<p>Okay, now we need to be very careful before shouting hooray.  If you had a lot USB connected devices like I did (web cam, printer, external hard drives, camera, &#8230;), <b><em>UNPLUG THEM ALL BEFORE YOU BOOT!<\/em><\/b>  After booting into Windows, finish the setup, <b><em>PLUG THEM BACK ONE AT A TIME!<\/em><\/b>  I&#8217;ve stucked in some deadlock and forced to re-install since I&#8217;m not patient enough to wait for Windows handling it, and thus caused corrupted driver stack.  So, the best strategy to avoid all these mess is, one peripheral at a time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Troubleshooting of Win 7 installation on my oldie Gateway GM5485E &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchsu.com\/art-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchsu.com\/art-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchsu.com\/art-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchsu.com\/art-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchsu.com\/art-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchsu.com\/art-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchsu.com\/art-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchsu.com\/art-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchsu.com\/art-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchsu.com\/art-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}