Windows 7 Prof failed to install

Hello and help, please. I don't normally cross-post but I thought it prudent to do so in this case since there doesn't seem to be much activity on the N53 Sandy Bridge user forum lately.

I am having problems completing a clean install of Windows 7 Professional on a new HDD on my N53SV-DH72 laptop. I get thru almost all of the installation and then I get a pop-up window with the following message:

"Windows could not configure one or more system components. To install Windows, restart the computer and then restart the installation".

After restarting the computer, another pop-up window appears with the following message:

"The computer restarted unexpectedly or encountered an unexpected error. Windows installation cannot procede. To install Windows, click 'OK' to restart the computer, and then restart the installation".

I'll be trying the installation again this evening but I was hoping someone in this forum could shed some light on what is happening to cause the install proccess to fail.

The laptop has a new WD7500BPKT 750GB hard drive and 16GB of Corsair system memory all of which Bios has correctly detected. The laptop seems to be working fine with the new components installed. The hard drive and memory were installed after an initial powerup of the laptop with the "as installed from the factory" components to verify that the laptop worked prior to changing the HDD and adding the memory.

I have never had a problem installing an Operating System before but Windows 7 is new to me. Is there a driver or something that has to be installed on the laptop prior to loading the Operating System I am not aware of?

I googled this problem and there are many out there that have had the same issue but there don't seem to be any answers or fixes. Anyway, any help would be appreciated to get the failed Windows 7 install working again.

Thanks.

Mark in AZ

 

If you are following along with the defaults when installing, Setup usually creates a small partition that you probably don't need (I understand it's for bitlocker).

I delete mine in Setup. It might be worth a try for you to do the same; I saw some posts at windows7forums where parititions were an issue. I don't suppose it can hurt anything at this point.

You can do this from withing Setup. From my notes:

When installing on a new drive or one that has no partitions, Windows Setup will create a hidden recovery partition by default. This can be removed using the following procedure before proceeding with the install:

On the What kind of installation do you want? Screen, choose Custom (Advanced). Windows displays a list of drives and partitions.

1. Click Drive Options (Advanced)
2. Select each partition and delete it.
3. Click New to create a new partition in the unallocated space. Leave the size offered by Windows in place and click Apply.
4. Windows warns that it might create additional partitions for system files. Click OK.
5. This will generally result in two partitions:
6. Partition 1: System Reserved, 100Mb, System
7. Partition 2: (no description) (the rest of the disk)Gb, Primary

8. Delete Partition 1 to remove the system partition, leaving unallocated space.
9. Created a new partition in the unallocated space, resulting in a 100 Mb primary partition.
10. Delete Partition 2, leaving unallocated space.
11. Select Partition 1 and click Extend. Set the size as high as it will go before clicking Apply. There’s now a single Partition 1 that takes the entire disk.
12. Clicked Next to install Windows on partition 1.

 

Thanks. I'll look at this but if I understand you correctly, it is the 100MG System partition that may be causing my problem. This is what I want to delete when I set up my partitions during the Windows install?

On my HDD, I want partition 1 to be about 270GB (Primary) for the OS and I wanted to set up a second partition (logical) with the remainder of the HDD space for data, etc. I don't think I can set up a logical partition during Windows setup (only Primary up to 4). My guess is I need to leave the remainder of the HDD space as unalocated and then set up my data partition after Windows is installed?

Anyway, thanks for your input.

Mark

 

It's possible. It's one of the things I found when researching the problem. My only personal experience with that error is probably not an issue for you; I joined a PC to a domain while in audit mode. After that it errored every boot, and I had to reinstall.

That sounds right...you'd create an extended partition in the unallocated space, then create logical drives(partitions) in it. AFAIK, the only practical advantage to that is if you want more than 4 partitions on the disk.

 

imo, i would try removing one of the ram sticks and try installing with 1/2 the ram. I know it sounds like it shouldn't make a difference but ive seen systems have install problems before when installing with upgraded ram amounts.