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Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 x64
I am trying to do a repair install of Windows 7 Ultimate which came pre-installed on the system, but every time I run windows setup, it gets 99% done, and is at the completing setup phase and suddenly pops up with a message saying windows can not be run on my current hardware. Setup then does a rollback of widows. This is absolutely ridiculous.... I am attempting to reinstall the SAME version of windows that was already on the system! Windows 7 Ultimate has been on the system since the day it rolled off the factory assembly line. I have triple checked to make sure the image I am using to do a repair install is x64. I have checked to make sure the image is not corrupted by doing a test install on a fresh drive in another PC. that time I got as far as asking for the license key before I stopped (because I didn't have a license for that PC). I did find a support article on the dell support site surprisingly enough (why not the M$ support site too?) that said to press shift+F10 and start c:\windows\system32\oobe\msoobe.exe manually. which I tried, but when I started msoobe manually, I got as far as the screen that askes me about default IE security settings, then the screen went almost black. anyone just seeing the screen might think that the backlight had just turned off. you could dimly see the dialogs on the scree showing, but not well enough to see what you could select. the only thing that was clearly visible, and proved that the backlight for the display was indeed still active, was the mouse cursor was still clear as day. I tried restarting my pc, hoping I could pick up where I left off, but windows setup did a rollback instead. I don't know if a recent update is causing this, or if it is caused by the damage to windows I am trying to repair. I have never ever, in all my years of using windows encountered this message. the fact that it appears to not have an error code associated with it makes it all that much harder to diagnose. what can I do?
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Hi,
There is a Windows Update that is supposed to remove the Win 10 Upgrade harassment stuff... At least for the original free offer... KB3184143...
I just did a clean install of Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 and didn't get any type of Windows 10 notifications...
I blocked some of the Windows Updates, but I don't think anything concerning Windows 10 was on the list...
I like rebit because it (used to be one time fee only) it does point in time back ups of individual files, as well as system recovery images. I have used the point in time feature multiple times, to recover recover a single file or a older version of a file that got changed due to saving the file by the system ( auto saves made by some games for instance).
I am thankful that M$ has not cut off access to windows update yet for win 7 gold. I was able to access since and download the few updates needed in order to install sp1. Only complaint I have is m$ snuck in an update that causes a full screen nag screen that says windows 7 is outdated abridged you to move to windows 10. I don't know which update it was that snuck that in tho.
I actually keep some of my data off of my primary drive as well, but only because of how much of it there is. All 2tb of my steam games are on my secondary drives. With games average above 10gb or more in size, it would be a pain to redownload everything.
Hi,
I have had very few HDDs suddenly fail... Most start acting unusual first, as a bit of a warning... I think only one ever produced a smoke like odor...
If you are looking for a imaging program that is a one time fee, and doesn't mess with cloud storage, you might try Acronis TrueImage running from bootable media... The Retail version comes on a installation CD that is also bootable...
I made a ISO of the CD, and then burned it to a flash drive that is also bootable...
I don't like to install stuff like that... It uses to many resources and stuff for the small amount of time it is needed...
I have been using ATI 2011... I have a couple of newer versions that rarely get used... They have advantages when running UEFI Bios, but that is something I try to avoid..
I keep my personal files, data, and etc. on a separate drive from the OS...
Everytime I do something I don't want to need to repeat I boot with the media and save an image.. This has worked out well for me over the years..
As best as I can tell the on the drive that failed, it was the drive controller board that exists on every hdd that failed.
The drive would spin up, and initially the data cached to the ssd portion tried to load windows, but the hdd portion would not be recognized. Bios would throw a fit and freeze up for log periods on the main screen that showed the time, date, and drives in the system, but would act normal on the other screens, the drive also did not show up as being present. You could here the motor spin the platters up to speed. But the as far as I could tell the read/write heads were remaining parked after initial power up of the drive. No evidence of anything fried on the controller board, but then everything was so small you would need really powerful magnitudes to see if there was.
I have other drives fail before, things like head failure, Or the platters getting stuck, or not able to spin, or the drive just wore out and there increasing numbers of bad sectors even after a low level format. I have also had a drive where the main chip on the controller board started smoking and a small hole appear in the top of the chip when the drive was first powered up .but never had a previously good hard drive suddenly have the controller board suddenly fail, while I was using the pc.
No this was a system image made by my rebit 6 backup software. It had a bug in it that was never fixed because rebit was bought by carbonite and subsequently shutdown. The bug was this:
When performing a system recovery, the contents of the back up would disappear after the recovery was finished. An annoying bug to be sure. I guess I forgot to make a new backup after my last recovery (when i got my new sshd).
Fortunately the software engineers who worked on rebit got together and started a new company, and bought the debit stuff back from carbonate (its not like they were using the stuff for anything.) so the rebit software is back. I have already purchased a new license (it's the same software, except it is patched, hopefully) for the new rebit pro. I did unfortunately have to purchase a business license so I could avoid the cloud storage and get only a yearly renewal fee. It is annoying to have to pay every year now, but it is what it is. Personally I would rather pay once, and then pay a fee when the next version comes out. Oh, and not have to deal .with the cloud backup nonsense. My internet connection is much to slow for cloud backups. One drive syncing already makes it so no one else can access the internet when it is syncing. Doing back up of my pc to the cloud would be impossible.
