Hello, I'm back with another installation problem that I can't identify because something is going on with the computer keeping it from cooperating. A while back I had trouble getting a hold of certain RAID drivers for my laptop that were required for installing windows 7. Eventually I found them and when I applied them the hard drives on the computer showed up to select where to install windows, selected the system drive and everything ran smoothly after that.
Then my computer crashed 3 weeks ago, finally got it fixed, but it was restored to all factory settings, meaning it's back to Windows XP. Attempted to reinstall Windows 7 using the same method I had used when first installaing it, the only difference being I had not previously used Partition Wizard to wipe the partition clean to prepare it for installation, and I'm not sure if the RAID drivers I applied this time are the same that I used the first time(when I downloaded them it was for my toshiba qosmio and the exact model/series number), and when the drives came up, have two 100GB drives, one primary, one system, I formatted both to completely clean/free, both empty and no longer has Windows XP running. Everything seemed to be going as what had happened with the first install, but when it had to restart to continue the installation, the CD made some unusual noises, and eventually the screen showed the prompt screen to run the CD. When pressed it'd bring me to the setup/installation screen to begin the process(as if it had never attempted to run in the first place), so I let it run on its own and the Windows logo comes up, then the "blue screen of death" comes up very quickly and instantly disappears before you can read anything and the computer restarts.
It goes to the CD prompt screen again and the next screen is the windows failure screen and it lists some options to start in safe mode or use last known good settings or start normally, and if I start normally, the blue screen will come up again quickly and just restart. Tried the steps to repair the computer from the installation CD but no luck. Going to try and find different drivers for this, I can only assume that's what happened, but if anyone else knows what I'm doing wrong or what is wrong with the computer and can help, I'd greatly appreciate it. Any of the other options don't work either and eventually just lead to the computer restarting.
Trying to reinstall windows 7 to what it was before and it's not letting me, using nearly the exact same method as before. Thank you for your time, I understand this post was lengthy, but wanted to make sure I listed all that happened and what was going on.
Then my computer crashed 3 weeks ago, finally got it fixed, but it was restored to all factory settings, meaning it's back to Windows XP. Attempted to reinstall Windows 7 using the same method I had used when first installaing it, the only difference being I had not previously used Partition Wizard to wipe the partition clean to prepare it for installation, and I'm not sure if the RAID drivers I applied this time are the same that I used the first time(when I downloaded them it was for my toshiba qosmio and the exact model/series number), and when the drives came up, have two 100GB drives, one primary, one system, I formatted both to completely clean/free, both empty and no longer has Windows XP running. Everything seemed to be going as what had happened with the first install, but when it had to restart to continue the installation, the CD made some unusual noises, and eventually the screen showed the prompt screen to run the CD. When pressed it'd bring me to the setup/installation screen to begin the process(as if it had never attempted to run in the first place), so I let it run on its own and the Windows logo comes up, then the "blue screen of death" comes up very quickly and instantly disappears before you can read anything and the computer restarts.
It goes to the CD prompt screen again and the next screen is the windows failure screen and it lists some options to start in safe mode or use last known good settings or start normally, and if I start normally, the blue screen will come up again quickly and just restart. Tried the steps to repair the computer from the installation CD but no luck. Going to try and find different drivers for this, I can only assume that's what happened, but if anyone else knows what I'm doing wrong or what is wrong with the computer and can help, I'd greatly appreciate it. Any of the other options don't work either and eventually just lead to the computer restarting.
Trying to reinstall windows 7 to what it was before and it's not letting me, using nearly the exact same method as before. Thank you for your time, I understand this post was lengthy, but wanted to make sure I listed all that happened and what was going on.
