Installation of Vista after re-formatted hard drive.

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• error when installing vista on a formatted hard drive

  I try to install Vista Home premium on a formatted hard drive. After booting from the installation DVD, I get the following message.

  Windows could not start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To solve the problem:
  1. Insert your Windows installation disc and restart your computer.
  2. choose your language settings, and then click "next".
  3. click on "Repair your computer."
  If you do not have the disk, contact your system administrator or computer manufacturer for assistance.
  File: \windows\system32\boot\winload.exe
  Status: 0x0c0000221
  Info: This file is maybe damaged. The header checksum does not match the sum of computer control.
  Any ideas?

  I try to install Vista Home premium on a formatted hard drive. After booting from the installation DVD, I get the following message.

  Windows could not start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To solve the problem:

  1. Insert your Windows installation disc and restart your computer.

  2. choose your language settings, and then click "next".

  3. click on "Repair your computer."

  If you do not have the disk, contact your system administrator or computer manufacturer for assistance.

  File: \windows\system32\boot\winload.exe

  Status: 0x0c0000221

  Info: This file is maybe damaged. The header checksum does not match the sum of computer control.

  Any ideas?

  Use utility diagnostics by the hard drive manufacturer (usually available from the web page of the manufacturer of the hard drive) to perform a complete diagnosis and zeros (low-level format) on disk.

• Activation of Windows Vista after replacing the hard drive

  I'm unable to activate windows after having my hard drive replaced. The portable station to my Windows Vista Home installed school, when my computer was originally Windows Vista Business. When I try to use Windows Activation, all options tells me that my product key is not valid for Windows Vista Home Edition. However, the steps to find a phone number to call for the activation require me to enter a product key, and then find the phone number from there. Because I can not clear the checkpoint, I can activate Windows or find a phone number to call. My computer has been purchased through my school, so I don't have a Windows Vista Business install disc, it automatically installs through the recovery disks. I could back up everything and then use the recovery disks, but I was wondering if there was another way to use the product key, I have, or to communicate with Windows. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

  Hello

  the product key you have is for Vista Business, not the House

  without a product key for home which must be provided by your school or purchased by you (no longer sold) will not be activated

  as you bought the computer and operating through your school system, these are the people to talk about this

  and if they provided you with recovery disks when you bought originally, they are used to boot from to reinstall the original operating system

• Installation of Vista on the new hard drive was interrupted, and now I can not start the computer

  So I decided that I need a bigger hard drive. I got a 500 GB hard drive, so I have it PLOPPED in my Acer Aspire 5517 with my vista boot drive, turned on and began to go through the process. Once he got to the phase 'installation complete' it seems to take a while, so I let it run all night. Once I got up, it was on a black screen with the mouse, I let stand a few more minutes but still nothing. I turned off and started it expects to find to return at the beginning of the installation, but instead he began to start from what is on the hard drive at this time. It got to the screen with the loading bar and the sign 'Microsoft Corporation'. The loading bar was very frigidity and stopped and started randomly. I let it do this while I went to school, but when I got home, it was always the same loading screen. I rebooted and tried to start in safe mode, but when I do it it stops at crcdisk.sys, and never forwarded charges. I tried to do the reset thing factory start it but that doesn't seem to work. My other puny hard drive still works, but the other does not. I searched the internet but have not seen any other problem like it. I want to just start completely clean of my new 500 GB. Please help!

  Hi James,

  1. What is the number of brand and model of the hard disk of 500 GB?

  2. How did the 500 GB hard drive connected to the computer? It is external or internal?

  To troubleshoot the unable to start the issue to cause corrupted driver, some files that can not be loaded during the startup process must be fixed or restored. So, let's check the disk by using the Windows Recovery Console.

  (a) put the Windows Vista installation disc in the disc drive, and then start the computer.

  (b) press a key when the message "Press any key to boot from CD or DVD ".

  (c) select a language, a time, a currency and a keyboard or another input method, and then click Next.

  (d) click on repair your computer.

  (e) (click on the operating system you want to repair), and then click Next.

  (f) in the System Recovery Options dialog box, click command prompt. Type chkdsk c:/f to try to correct the errors.

  (g) Note: answer them when chkdsk asks you if you want to check the disk next boot Vista

  (h) after the recording of the disc, and then run sfc/scannow to check the corruption of system files.

  Important: when running chkdsk on the drive hard if bad sectors are found on the disk hard when chkdsk attempts to repair this area if all available on which data may be lost.

  Check out TechNet help links and check if that helps:

  The computer starts stops at crcdisk.sys

  Help! Vista won't start... (crcdisk.sys)

  Let us know the status of the issue. If you need help, please after return. We will be happy to help you.

• Accidentally, I installed the upgrade to Windows 7 without the first installation of Vista on a new hard drive. How can I remove the upgrade and install Vista?

  I replaced the failed hard drive and then inadvertently loaded upgraded Windows 7 before I reinstalled Vista.  Now I can't understand how to remove the upgrade to Windows 7, so I can install Vista.

  Boot from the Windows Vista DVD
  Click Install now
  Accept the license agreement
  When the option is displayed to select a type of installation, click (Custom advanced)
  Click on drive Options
  Select the disc/s click on Delete
  Click new
  Click on apply
  Click OK
  Click Format, and then click next to proceed with the installation

  or you can try this for Windows 7:

  Skip entering your product key Windows 7 and complete the installation.

  When you reach the desktop, click Start, right-click on computer

  Click on properties

  Scroll down to the Windows Activation

  Click the link x days before activation.

  Click on the link that says: "show me other ways to activate.

  Enter the product key

  Click next

  Select the Activation of the phone

  Click Next when you enter your key page

  Select your country

  Click Next, call the number listed

  Be sure to explain your situation to the Appeals Officer.

  They will give a confirmation ID, enter it

  Click next to complete the activation.

• Installation of Vista on the new hard drive.

  Recently, the hard drive (Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 750Go) in my HP Pavilion Elite M9350F Desktop has failed.

  I replaced today by a Western Digital Caviar Green WD10EADX 1 TB harddrive.

  After the removal of the old hard drive and the installation of the new, I tried to install Windows vista on it.

  While in the window select a driver to install, I get this message

  "A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing. If you have a driver floppy, CD, DVD, or USB Flash Drive please insert it now. »

  Followed by this error message when I perform a new crawl for drivers.

  "No device drivers were found. Make sure that the installation media contains the correct drivers, and then click OK. »

  I don't know what to do to fix this error.

  I also ran a report diaognostics and the disk is healthy, but I get error BIOHD-3.

  * Note: I've already been on the Western Digital site and they describe it as either an error with the computer itself, or the hard drive has failed, which I do not have to be the case since I bought it today.

  Two SATA drivers I posted above (from your page drivers)-choose which is right for your installation. One is for Vista 32 bit, the other is for Vista 64-bit. Use something like the free 7Zip to extract the files to a folder. Place the files on a flash drive and when the message arrives you need the driver cd/dvd insert the flash drive.

  I didn't need or used this procedure personally, but it seemed to work for others.

• Cannot install a version upgrade of Windows Vista after changing the hard drive.

  Original title: my computer gives me a warning... saying backup.

  My hard drive is bad.  I can feel it.

  Keep the system lock up and rebooting message says cable and BAD status.

  I took the hard drive... put in a new one... and now it says I can't install vista.

  I have the version upgrade.

  I put XP on this drive and upgrade again.  Y at - it something I can do.

  I want to just reinstall windows vista on a new drive.  How can I accomplish this.

  The bad hard drive still works and is accessible it is not stable and keeps locking up.

  The full version of XP that I have is out of licenses.  Help Help

  Hi Rob,

  You must install first Windows XP and upgrade to Windows Vista.

  If you have a genuine copy of Windows XP, after you install Windows XP you can contact support for Microsoft's Activation to activate the copy of Windows XP.

  For more information, you can consult the following articles:

  Upgrade Windows XP to Windows Vista

  How to activate Windows XP

• Unable to activate Windows Vista after upgrading the hard drive.

  install on HD replacement

  HD crashed.  Bought the new HD 2 t.  installed Vista with system recovery disks.  Operating system will not work.  What should I do?

  Unfortnunately - since it is a process of recovery provided OEM - only help you can really get is OEM themselves.

  Windows XP can have trouble with the size of the player (depending on the installation media level of service pack that you use) or controller drivers.

  Are you sure it was your hard drive crashed and nothing else has been damaged?  Could be a bad controller, bad memory even a poor diet.

• Need to reinstall Vista after replacing the hard drive

  Microsoft website has confused me! Help please! Should I just buy and install vista again?

  * original title - I got my computer fixed and a new drive hard put, I could not find the disks from acer with what he came or the vista disk. Acer disks I found, but how do I buy windows vista? *

  Microsoft website has confused me! Help please! Should I just buy and install vista again?

  Hey LauraR1991

  If you have your acer recovery disks, you need not buy new vista

  you already have a license of vista

  The acer recovery disks are to reinstall vista on how you purchased your computer

  If the disks from acer that you aren't below recovery disks link is to buy vista directly at acer recovery disks

  they sell them at a nominal cost

  Acer Recovery Media purchase program

  https://secure.TX.Acer.com/rcdb/main.aspx?brand=Acer

  Walter, the time zone traveller

• Get an IRQL error when reinstalling Vista on a formatted HARD drive.

  My (HP a1700n) office has been very slow, perhaps a virus. I ran Norton NIS and also had Norton disk utilities cleaner. Before that the Office stopped completely, I was able to shoot the important things (pictures, videos, etc) nothing else I could lose and wasted. I decided to start over and reinstall the Vista operating system, since I don't have the disk. Has gone so far as to choose the partition and after that he began to «analyze...» "it froze and gave me some kind of error that the partition not could not be found or something like that, well I deleted the partition with the recovery partition since I created a disc a new partition using all the available space, but now I get the not_les_than_ error message. I only go as far as to choose the partion and starts to analyze then the BSOD appears. I did not add anything other than a 1 GB of ram and I removed it, so now the computer only has the 1 GB it is came with, everything else is what came with when I bought it 2 years ago. I don't know if it's hardware related or I'm doing something wrong.

  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  Eric

  If you get BSOD when installing, try the Vista repair Forum for advice and give them all the details of BSOD error.

  http://social.answers.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/vistarepair/threads

  See you soon.

  Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

• Relocation of recovery vista after erasing the hard drive with DBan

  Pavilion dv6707us laptop, Vista Home Premium 32 bit

  I deleted the whole hardrive, including the recovery partition D with DBan.  Unfortunately, the recovery disks that I made will not restore Vista.  They work up to "Restoring presets.  Is there anyway to make this work without the recovery partition D?  If I order at hp recovery disks they will give me a full recovery or will I have the same problem without partition D?

  Thank you

  recovery media ordered from HP has nothing to do with the partition d. recovery media a full OS, drivers, and applications. This HP support removes all partitions and restore the device to factory settings (no data for sure).

  If you have trouble using media, created by you, please order one at HP.

  It will be useful.

• Installation of SP3 on a newly formatted HARD drive

  Hello

  I have a few questions about the installation of Windows XP Service Packs on newly formatted hard drives.

  Recently I have formatted a new HARD drive and installed Windows XP Home Edition. In order to be upgraded to Service Pack 1 to 3, it is recommended to connect to Windows Update and download and install it from there. I did this and was prompted to install Service Pack 2. During the last steps of the installation (I think that durng the procedure of 'start process'), I lost Internet connectivity and was impossible to reconnect (I use a USB dongle. I think that a virus infection is interfering with the connection). That's why I had to restart my computer for the installation could be completed, but it seemed to be successful that I was able to reboot without any problem. I assume that the installation had actually finished and it was just reset stage that was interrupted.

  Question: even if the installation of Service Pack 2 has not finished and my machine seems to be fine, reinstall Service Pack 2 in order to ensure that it is completely installed?

  Question: Why should I install SP2? If Service Pack 3 contains all fixes and features of all previous Service Packs and it is acceptable to upgrade to Service Pack 1 to 3 directly, why didn't Windows Update invite me to install Service Pack 3 instead?

  Question: I have found a manual download of Service Pack 3 (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=5b33b5a8-5e76-401f-be08-1e1555d4f3d4&displaylang=en), but Microsoft strongly recommends that use you it only on machines in a network, and not on a single computer. Y at - it hurt to do?

  A question here, is that if Microsoft recommends that download the latest Service Packs of Windows Update online, so it seems not possible to fully guarantee your Windows installation before connecting the interest for the first time. All the while I'm software download and installation of Service Pack 2, malware, worms and viruses have been infecting my computer (Avast! blocked a malware exploit). So even if I managed to upgrade to Service Pack 3, my machine is already infected.

  Is there a recommended way to upgrade to Service Pack 3 before you connect to the Internet for the first time?

  Thank you

  Tristan

  See...

  HOW TO get a computer that is running Windows XP SP1 (a) or SP2 fully patched (after a clean install)
  http://groups.Google.com/group/Microsoft.public.WindowsXP.General/MSG/a066ae41add7dd2b

  ~ Robear Dyer (PA Bear) ~ MS MVP (that is to say, mail, security, Windows & Update Services) since 2002 ~ WARNING: MS MVPs represent or work for Microsoft

• Vista home premium, new hard drive, recovery "windows installation error.

  Pavilion m9340f Vista Home premium.

  original hard drive & replacement two seagate barracuda SATA

  "installation of windows could not configure windows to run on a hardware on this computer."

  After the disk crash, replaced the hard drive.

  Using Vista Home Premium SP1 recovery disks (disk w / extra) HP, has begun to recovery.

  First step was to run the tools, test drive.  Seek and scan spent.

  Put 1 in the drive and powered drive, then on it.

  Bridged system restore and went to recovery.

  All the drives used, including the additional disk.  Everything is OK

  reformat & reinstalling original content OK

  "Complete recovery" & restart OK

  Opens the window with 'startnet.command', 'building the partition' appears

  With "HP Flexbuild 2.0"appears, and then restart

  "Windows Setup" starts.

  copy of files OK

  extension of the files OK

  installation of OK features

  installation of updates OK

  end of installation - it is here that the window with the ' installation of windows... neck material. appears

  I have no idea where to go from here.  Seagate, told me to "call HP.  Support HP told me to buy another machine, although I had to pay for the support.  This forum and Microsoft are my last hope.

  Can someone PLEASE suggest something.  I can't just throw this machine.

  PROBLEM SOLVED!

  Dig kept and article found

  "

  Can not recover the PC after replacing the hard drive with a drive AF (Windows 7 and Vista)

  http://support.HP.com/us-en/document/c03509131

  I had an old WD 1 TB drive is not AF.  Put it in and everything worked fine.

• What happens to my key if my hard drive is formatted, the key will work after that my hard drive is formatted?

  I want to know that my synchronized computer key will work if I format my drive hard because when the hard drive is formatted, then the key code is deleted, even though I saved my key will it work after formatting hard drive. Let me know.

                let me also know that what will happen if I lose the key I had saved then how will I access my synchronized computer .
  

  Hello!

  Can you indicate the information where it says that the information is stored in our servers? If that mentioned anywhere we need to clarify.

  The only reference I found is here: How can I set up Sync on my computer? and it is specifically stated that the information is synchronized on devices through our servers. If it is misleading, let me know so that we can reword it.

  Regarding the storage of the key in your pen drive or any other backup system: this is the best solution and it will work correctly after you format your computer. The key does not change when you format your computer, so you will have no problems after all.

• The update to version 2 of Vitsa fail. Formatted hard drive to purchase the version. need to find the final vista product key

  The update to version 2 of Vitsa fail. Formatted hard drive to purchase the version. need to find the final vista product key

  It should be on a sticker on the box, or on the packaging.

  The product key consisted of 25 digits, divided into 5 groups of 5 digits.

  See you soon...

  Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner