Windows 7 installation error

[Cody Sparks]

"When I reached 71% installation I received this message. "Windows cannot install required files. Make sure all files required for installation are available and restart the installation. Error code: 0x8007045D"

I'm really pissed as it took 3 hours to get to that point. What caused it? Thank you.

 

[Cody Sparks]

Going to try one more time and if it happens again I'm probbaly just going to give up.

 

[smorizio]

Could be bad spot on the cd or hard drive. If your using the ms cd check for scratches. If need be download the ISo image and try the Microsoft iso to USB tool. On your hard drive format it and see if there a bad bit-block on it.

 

[Cody Sparks]

Could be bad spot on the cd or hard drive. If your using the ms cd check for scratches. If need be download the ISo image and try the Microsoft iso to USB tool. On your hard drive format it and see if there a bad bit-block on it.

Sure. But right now I'm not really getting anywhere since I had to force shut down the computer after the fail since I couldn't do anything and now I have a black screen. Building a computer is starting to seem like a bad idea.

 

[Cody Sparks]

Now I get "A disk read error occurred press ctrl+Alt+Del to restart"

 

[Cody Sparks]

Can't anyone help?

 

[smorizio]

Take your hard drive out plug it into another pc. Run hdtune and vendor test tools to see if the drive is fine. Windows 7 install should take about 20 min on a good drive. Before you ran the windows installer did you check to see if your mb bios was missing any updates??? On the install dd you check that the Sata ports were set to achi mode and not raid or IDE and your on the intel or amd ports.

 

[Cody Sparks]

Take your hard drive out plug it into another pc. Run hdtune and vendor test tools to see if the drive is fine. Windows 7 install should take about 20 min on a good drive. Before you ran the windows installer did you check to see if your mb bios was missing any updates??? On the install dd you check that the Sata ports were set to achi mode and not raid or IDE and your on the intel or amd ports.

I don't have another PC. Windows 7 install was taking hours. How the hell can my MB miss any updates when this is a brand new pc I'm building from scratch? Yes they were set to ACHI when I checked. And what ports? It registers my processor as being an AMD FX 8320.

 

[Cody Sparks]

Take your hard drive out plug it into another pc. Run hdtune and vendor test tools to see if the drive is fine. Windows 7 install should take about 20 min on a good drive. Before you ran the windows installer did you check to see if your mb bios was missing any updates??? On the install dd you check that the Sata ports were set to achi mode and not raid or IDE and your on the intel or amd ports.

The problem started after I force shut down the computer after the failed installation since I was stuck at the installations screen with greyed out X and no way to get out of it. If I get a new Hard-drive and return the piece of shit I received today can I still use my Windows 7 OEM that I got today also since it didn't install? Since it's taking forever to get help on this board I'm just going to take it to a tech specialist tomorrow and just throw another 200 (why not at this point) at it till it works.

 

[Cody Sparks]

Probably the hard drive is shot though right?

 

[Cody Sparks]

Now it's saying BootMGR is missing Press CTRL+ALT+DEL

 

[smorizio]

If it an Ssd use a USB boot disk and secure erase it. If it a standard hdd make sure in bios your system still set to boot from the DVD. Go in and delete all the partion...reboot and restart the windows install. On Reboot have the mb driver cd with you or the mb drivers on a USB stick. When the windows installer starts do a f6 install and install the mb drivers.

 

[Cody Sparks]

If it an Ssd use a USB boot disk and secure erase it. If it a standard hdd make sure in bios your system still set to boot from the DVD. Go in and delete all the partion...reboot and restart the windows install. On Reboot have the mb driver cd with you or the mb drivers on a USB stick. When the windows installer starts do a f6 install and install the mb drivers.

Just tried booting it from the Disc drive now and I'm still getting the same error. I'm guessing the hard drive is shot now as theres no way I can think of to get back to the windows 7 installation screen and clear the partition since I'm getting the error "BootMGR is missing" still.

 

[Cody Sparks]

Actually I selected it now from Boot menu selection and appear to be getting somewhere. I'll keep you posted.

 

[Cody Sparks]

After I boot it from the disc I get the "Windows loading" then the logo and then...nothing. Just a black screen with my mouse cursor on it.

Edit: And then I have to do a force shut down.

 

[smorizio]

Try this pull the gpu and one stick of ram. Then update your mb bios and then try windows install. If it runs fine finish it and do all the windows updates. Then shut down and install the gpu back in. If the system runs fie with the gpu run memtest on the one stick of ram..then add the other stick and rerun memtest.

 

[Cody Sparks]

Dropped off the COmputer at a repair shop today. They were baffled wonderin why I couldn't do it myself, so they're going to try and fix it over the next 2 days and let me know for 75-100 dollars.

 

[Cody Sparks]

Try this pull the gpu and one stick of ram. Then update your mb bios and then try windows install. If it runs fine finish it and do all the windows updates. Then shut down and install the gpu back in. If the system runs fie with the gpu run memtest on the one stick of ram..then add the other stick and rerun memtest.

I would but I'm using AMD FX 8320 PCU which doesn't have integrated graphics. Already dropped off the computer at a shop. I'm guessing the motherboard would automatically update the bios as a result though.

 

[Cody Sparks]

Update: It was a bad hard Drive. They explained that when I got it that it was in it's early stages of dying. After buying a replacement at the shop my computer is now fully functional with Windows 7 running smoothly. Now I just have to return the bad one to newegg tomorrow. Thanks for all the help guys! =)