A1777c Pavilion: Pavilion a1777c abandoned Vista Clean Install

Gentlemen.

I have a Pavilion a1777c desktop I got recently at a thrift store. Everything needed was a HARD drive, so I put in a Western Digital 1 TB SATA and tried to install Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit which is it bundled with the operating system.

I say "try" because the facility cancelled at the last step, "Installation complete", with a window that pops up reading "Windows Setup could not configure Windows to run on a hardware on this computer." As far as I know, everything is just what the computer shipped with - except the most recent, more large capacity HDD.

The first thing that occurs to me is that the Vista installation disc I used was SP1. I have used it before on a HP laptop and it was no problem. I have SP2 on another drive and could put after the initial installation, but the a1777c comes with a PCI graphics card and a TV/FM tuner card. It could be that support HP original installation included SP2 so that I could use my Vista SP2 installation disc included to get a successful installation.

I would consider a set of rescue disks, but this option is not available on the downloads and software page for this computer. There could be a third party for the received media resource, but probably at three times the price HP would be deducted.

This computer, as delivered, will work correctly under Windows 7? The drivers and software page I chose Win7 because the OS just for fun and there was only one thing that came as different from the stuff available for Vista. If it turns out that the rescue media obtained from a third party was the only realistic way to go, I am tempted to put this money to Win7.

In any case, I talked enough about it. Do you think I'm onto something with the installation of Vista SP1 the problem disc, or it could be something else?

Your interest in the problem and its solution is appreciated!

Grant

Hi, grant:

It is possible that the new hard drive, you have purchased is a hard disk advanced format which does not have Vista.

The format of the format hard drives advanced with the GPT table instead of the older MBR partition table, so that they can work with the latest UEFI BIOS, which is not your model.

So, here are my recommendations...

1 visit the site Web of WD and see if they have a bootable tool to format the drive in the MBR.

You need to remove all partitions, to make a new partition, format it to NTFS MBR and see if Vista installs it.

2. There is free 3rd software suites of party that can do that for you like this...

https://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html

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