You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Andre Da Costa Article Author. Are you sure that your hardware is compatible with Windows 7 64 bit?
Do you experience the same problem when you attempt to install the 32 bit version? Also try the following: Disconnect any non-essential devices you might have attached to the machine, they might be interfering with setup.
If you have more than one hard disk installed, disconnect all except the target hard disk where you will be installing Windows 7. Try reducing the amount of installed RAM to 1 GB or a single stick and see if the installation completes, they you can reattach both the hard disks and memory. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site.
In reply to Andre Da Costa's post on January 12, Thanks for the reply. I'll give that RAM thing a go. Any idea which stick I should leave in? I have one 4GB and one 2GB module installed. In reply to grstets's post on January 12, SP1 install, after completion, still hangs on "Starting Windows" screen. Had to run system recovery again. This is getting quite tiring In reply to grstets's post on January 13, Sorry to hear, try with the 2 GB and see if it makes a difference.
Question, what are you attempting, a complete copy of Windows 7 with SP1 or just the Service Pack itself? ISO files, it supports a wide range of other image file formats, and it's free. Where to find your product key? You can find the product key for Windows 7 Home Premium at the bottom of your laptop or within the Battery Compartment. In reply to Andre Da Costa's post on January 13, I am attempting to upgrade from Windows 7 to SP1.
I tried the upgrade install and received the error message: "To upgrade, you need to be running Windows 7 with Service Pack 1 installed. Close the installation, open Windows Update, and then check updates for Service Pack 1. I'm sorry if I'm being obtuse, I've been using Microsoft and Linux based systems since the days of DOS, but this issue just baffles me. What, aside from a clean install, which I'm not too keen on doing, will work? I really appreciate your patience with me and this issue and do thank you for all your good suggestions; they have been insightful and things I wouldn't have necessarily thought of.
In reply to grstets's post on January 14, In reply to Tryx3's post on January 14, I deleted the Dell recovery partition when I did the clean install of Windows 7. Ran for several hours, installed updates after concluding, and proceeded to revert changes during system configuration. Subsequent startup did not display any error messages and, had I not been watching the update, would not have known that anything was amiss.
If you have made full system backups in daily usage, things will become very easy. You can restore the system to a time when it works. Step 1. Start Windows 7 normally. Before you see the Windows loading logo, press F8 on your keyboard. Then you can see a variety of Advanced Boot Options. Step 2. Choose Repair Your Computer and wait until Windows 7 repair mode is ready.
Step 3. If you are told to choose keyboard, just click OK. If you are told to choose an account, choose your account, and click OK. If you have set password for your Windows account, enter the password too. Then you can see System Recovery Options. Step 5. Here you can see all Windows restore points available.
Try your best to recall when your computer is safe and sound, and choose the corresponding restore point. If you do not see the full restore points, check Show more restore points. Step 6. Click Next. It will try restoring your Windows to the restore point you have selected. This will take some time before the system restore is done. Hope this helps. Turn on your computer, and before you see the Windows loading logo, rapidly press F8 key on your keyboard.
Choose Repair Your Computer and wait until Windows 7 repair mode is started. If it asks you to choose a keyboard, just click OK. If it tells you to choose an account, choose your account, and click OK. If you do have password for your Windows account, you need to enter it too. Choose Command Prompt , this will run Windows command prompt. This will scan your hard drive for errors, and will try to fix the errors if it detects any.
This process can take some time so please wait until the disk check is done. However, if the same situation happens, this means there is a certain issue for the hard drive.
Then you should consider replacing it. Buy Now. Then set computer to boot from the bootable media in BIOS. After that, copy the whole disk to another one. In this way, you won't lose any data in the source disk if anything bad happens.
Step 2: Choose a target disk to hold all content of the source disk. Note that all data on the target disk will be cleaned so be sure that this drive can be cleaned or a backup has been made in advance. Step 3: Choose a copy option here. You can keep the original partition size, keep the proportion of the partition sizes, or customize the partition size of each partition.
Besides, here are two options for you:. Step 4: Go through the next message telling how to boot from the target disk until you reach back to the main interface. Finally, click "Apply" to carry out this change. With this disk copy at hand, you don't have to worry about data loss caused by Windows 7 stuck at loading screen or other issues.
Click to tweet. And the easiest way is to remove the CMOS battery for a few minutes. This will revert the BIOS settings to the factory default levels. A CMOS battery that is out of charge for long time can certainly be the cause of Windows 7 freezing on startup.
Replace the CMOS battery if your computer is more than two or three years old or if you have shelved the computer for a long period of time without usage. Maybe there is a problem with your system RAM.
Sometimes, when your computer memory is bad or when a memory slot on computer motherboard is bad, Window 7 freezing on startup could happen, but this is rare. Try changing your computer memory or reinstalling the computer memory. After that, restart the computer in Safe Mode. Here please select the clean boot option by unchecking all the options under Selective Startup.
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