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Complete loss of windows 7. Why?
Ghost:
Hello, Well I awoke brimming with confidence to take the flag in this battle between me and this machine today, but as usual the machine would have the last laugh of the day, that is if it really could. I proceeded as per your instructions, Shane, and came to that point to delete and hit next. I feel compelled to say a word or so, pertaining to my hesitance to go past the ominus warning of self destruction committed at the hands of me, the owner, never to retrieve such data as what I'am about to obliterate into nowhere and should be ashamed that I could even think of doing such a fatal act against my very own machine, is that in no way would I dare to advise you or the others of immense knowledge and conceptual prowness, I find myself lacking in so miserably, about the shear fear of self inflicted fatal punches and deletes all the way to the final, no return demise of my now concern, heap of money worth noda.I,am using a friend's computer to read and write these posts, so, my responses and questions are, of course, sporadic at best, so I'm not quite relaxed enough yet to be enjoying my new found experience and knowledge in recovery 101. I think my friend here is mostly concerned about how I will send his nice and obedient toy down the road of no return more than he shows, so my time for a reasonable reply might seem farther apart, but I can assure you, it's not due to a lack of concern and interest. At this point, I do not have the slightest guess as to what to expect in time to complete or even the behavior it will display as normal in these cases.I'am currently at approx. 16 hours of the screen in the windows screensaver with the words Setup is starting services. Now and then, I think it restarts and sometimes I fill out the forms and re-delete the partitions again, then back to this screensaver.It almost fakes me out everytime when it says starting windows with that microsoft gragh going off, but so far reverts back to starting services. I can't really use it to take a screen shot or anything of informational value for you and I'am positive my descriptions here must be nerve racking for you, so I will let it keep running and hope for your input again, praytel, I haven't set you to running the other direction.
Thanks just don't seem like enough, but it's sincere.
Shane:
When it says starting services do you let it stay there or does something else happen?
And here watch this, might make you feel more comfortable :-)
http://youtu.be/mME9VLT7-xw
Shane
jraju:
Hi Ghost
Sorry for interference.
Normally, whatever be the system, when you get the installation screen, Please click on advance drive option and in there you will see the total partition of your computer including c drive. You have to delele the reserved partition and primary partition, which are having your operating system files. All other drives could be formatted later, safely after booting with new windows 7.
Just delete these two drives and then click Install button, which will be active, once you delete these partitions. Just install and your problem is solved.
By not going to advance drive option, you are running the risk of choosing the wrong partition. It will show some other drives . Try it. I tried it and it worked smooth for me
Ghost:
Thank you, my friend, but I'am not having such a smooth experience as you wish i were. I'am very discouraged with my ability to mechanize this simple and easy procedure everyone on planet earth can do blindfolded,backwards except me! I in no way, am discontented with any of my new friends here, who have diligently and graciously donated time and experience to help me through this, because, perhaps i have failed to describe the exact situation at hand clearly enough and without the ability to show data facts as they come to me, I may not have expressed the details of error as needed. I apologize and will diligently focus on recapping the history up to this point, so as to make clear the events as they did unfold for me in this disaster
The early parts will be brief, but needed for my sake. My acer aspire 5733z was fine when I left it running, my son and friend attempt to optimize,(GRRR!), I come back and try to log into my user profile. It will not allow login, with several attempts, I manage to boot safe with network, find that most services were stopped and would not start. I followed online help from different computer concerning mine. The jest of it was to hide microsoft service, turn all others off and cipher through them to find error. That was the last time I actually got past repair start up. After long time, start up repair declares it can not help. Refers me to administrator or manufacture for help.The best I can get out of the boys, is that they remember a page they had changed regarding values of an unpopulated service, not sure which. They populate(whatever that means I wish I knew) and exit. Boob-head (son's friend) assures me it can't be that!
I post to tweaking for help. I have had a new, unused in the package HHD, 500 gb hard drive directly sent to me from acer over problems on same model laptop we never used again. It is WD blue scorpion, 500 gb, and clearly states instructions for vista and xp, but windows 7 is ready as is, I have yet to see it work. To do acer recovery and set to new factory settings, it says to remove files before recovery, then loops back through same pages with no options. So, I put back the damaged HHD as shane ask to do, I follow his outline burn iso disk and attempt the drivers by using diff computer downloading what acer just calls drivers for my model, then put them on dvd. I get through to "install where" page and this is what was there. windows page. Now, on that page, 3 items came up. #1(at top) was Disk 0 Partition 1 :PQSERVICE. Total size > 18.0 GB, free space > 6.3 GB, and Type > OEM (Reserved). # 2 (middle) was Disk 0 partition 2. Total space > 100.0 MB, Free space > 86.0 MB, Type > Primary. # 3 was Disk 0 Partition 3 Total space > 100.0 MB, Free space > 86.0 MB, Type > system. Then Disk 0 Partition 4 Totalspace > 447.6 GB, Free space > 447.6 GB, Type > Primary. I hope this makes sense to you. They were in columns, so i used the > sign to separate. I used advance option and deleted all one at a time. I click next and it says that is all the information needed at this time. The install seems to be working and gets to the point where it says set up is starting services, for a long time, about 16 hours later it reboots and ask for any key to do so, well I think now that i was suppose to let it boot through by itself, but did not know any better, so I start it over ( 3 times) and I be thinking it is just going to loop me to death, when it pops up a screen saying windows can not load due to error. Windows boot manager states File: \Windows\system32\winload.exe could not load. Application is missing or corrupt. Status: 0xc000000f. It stops there and I can not seem to boot the iso disk anymore.
I thought all had changed for the better when I found the acer recovery disk pack. I started the Acer Recovery Management (v8.0.8) and went to factory reset with disk. I ran it twice only to be stopped completely at 61% overall progress and 14% copying files, exactly the same twice, then says Restore failed-error code= 0x17(data error(cyclic redundancy check).). I was on disk #2 recovery. I found this OS called Ubuntu 13 and i'am using it on my laptop to write this with that OS on a disk I burned. I truly do want my windows 7 back if at all possible. I will now probably lie awake in bed rewriting all of this in my head better and better each time only for me to read. HA!
I hope this reaches you in good health and good spirits, Thank You
P.S. I forgot to mention about the audio. It did not work what so ever from the beginning of me trying to sign in. Don't know if that helps, but I thought it strange at the time.
jraju:
Thanks for lengthy reply pl see this link for avoiding any mistake while installing. I have done as per this instructions in the link. Hope that this solves much of your problem
I had those problem , so i advise this to solve your problem
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/operatingsystems/ss/windows-7-clean-install-part-1.htm
You will find needed information with example figures. ok
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