[PICTURES] Windows 7 finishes expanding files, reboots, starts installation all over again

[Rileymac4]

I'm doing a fresh install of Windows 7 onto my Samsung 840 EVO 500GB in UEFI/AHCI and everything goes fine until Windows finishes expanding files and goes to reboot. Once it reboots it starts the installation process all over again, although you can see the three UEFI partitions I had made right before and see that the third one has 10ish GB written to it that Windows had just done. I've done a lot of research and a common thing seems to be that it's because the boot order is wrong, but I've already changed the boot order on my MSI motherboard to UEFI USB, UEFI CD/DVD, only THEN followed by the UEFI drive itself. I made a Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit UEFI USB 3.0 after doing it off the DVD failed, and it still isn't working. My guess is that despite me setting the boot order like that, it's somehow going back to the default that has the drive first, because sometimes when I'll restart it have the installation starts from the beginning, I'll go into the BIOS to check and the load order has gone back to default with the drive first. I'll attach some screen shots here:

AHCI Mode:

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What I've been setting the boot order as:

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What the three UEFI partitions look like once Windows starts the installation all over again (notice the space taken up on the third one from the previous installation). And yes, before I try to install Windows again I delete all the old partitions and make a new one:

Default UEFI boot order that it keeps reverting back to:

I'm running an Intel 3570k, Gigabyte GeForce GTX 770 4GB VRAM, 16 GB Corsair Vengeance Ram, Samsung 840 EVO 500GB SSD (only drive), and my motherboard is a MSI LGA1155/Intel B75/DDR3/SATA3 USB 3.0/A&GbE/MicroATX Motherboard B75MA-P45.

Someone please help I'm at college and can't even do my assignments without logging into a school computer and I want my gaming rig back.

 

[tomr4lph]

Once it restarts, take out the CD/DVD/USB before it has a chance to boot to it. The installation should continue.

 

[Jacob McIntosh]

Wjen I installed Windows on my PC (and this may or may not be the right way to do it, but it worked for me), i had the same problem. I was able to make it work but taking out the USB as soon as the PC was powered down in the reboot phase of the install. My best guess is that your motherboard doesn't know if you have Windows installed or not, and just sees that in Boot priority 1 is USB, and there's a .iso on the usb, so run it, and then there goes your old (partial) install. I would restart the entire process, wipe the SSD, etc, and upon reboot take out he USB before the computer has a chance to turn on again and the motherboard tries to boot off the USB.

 

[Paul NZ]

Sounds like youre pressing a key everytime it restarts. This will take it back to the setup screen if you are

 

[Rileymac4]

Wjen I installed Windows on my PC (and this may or may not be the right way to do it, but it worked for me), i had the same problem. I was able to make it work but taking out the USB as soon as the PC was powered down in the reboot phase of the install. My best guess is that your motherboard doesn't know if you have Windows installed or not, and just sees that in Boot priority 1 is USB, and there's a .iso on the usb, so run it, and then there goes your old (partial) install. I would restart the entire process, wipe the SSD, etc, and upon reboot take out he USB before the computer has a chance to turn on again and the motherboard tries to boot off the USB.

I tried that when I was using the DVD before I put the iso on my USB but I'll give it a shot really quickly. When I tried it with the DVD all it wanted to do was repair windows even though I never hit any keys.

Sounds like youre pressing a key everytime it restarts. This will take it back to the setup screen if you are

I'm not, I just leave it during it's 10 second countdown.

 

[Jacob McIntosh]

Just yank out the USB (or the SATA cable if using a CDROM drive) when it restarts. See what happens.