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smalltownguy:
Stupid Windows 7 install. grrrr   :banghead: :banghead:

Trying to get it installed on an older Celeron 1.3 with 512 ram. Hard drive is flaky at best, and keeps corrupting install files. You think I could just blow up the partitions on the drive, re-partition and try again? Nooooooooo, the Win 7 disk 'sniffs' out the files and tries to re-use them in an effort to speed up the subsequent installs.

*rant rant rant*

Popped in my WinXP thumb drive and blew up the partitions once again, setting up partitions of new sizes in an effort to try and 'trick' the Win7 disk into re-copying the files again. We'll see if that works.

smalltownguy:
Just tried the Linux Ubuntu 10.04 Live distro to try an 'end-around' approach to getting my flaky HDD to play nice. Laptop locked up tight. *dammit*


gryhnd:
Google for the Gparted Live CD. Use that to nuke and redo your partitions. It hasn't failed me yet. It's small, lightweight.

smalltownguy:
Used my XP on a thumb drive to re-partition my 40GB laptop drive to 3 partitions, one at 100MB, one at 19GB, and one at 20GB. Win7 setup has now expanded all the files, and has rebooted to complete registry settings.

Here's to keeping my fingers crossed.

smalltownguy:

--- Quote from: gryhnd on August 25, 2010, 08:37:16 pm ---Google for the Gparted Live CD. Use that to nuke and redo your partitions. It hasn't failed me yet. It's small, lightweight.

--- End quote ---

Thanks for the heads up. I think I'll use that to do my partition work once I'm all done. Once I'm finished, I'll need to merge all the partitions back together again.

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