Clean Install Issues

RobG18,

Thank you for using the Dell Community Forum.

The OS needs to be on the boot partition (1).  Reformat the drive and then boot to the OS disk and try reinstalling windows again.

I have a similar issue.

Dell D620, 2 gb ram, sucessfully wiped hard drive... flashed bios with lastest D620_A10 Bios. 

Attempting a custom Windows 7 32 bit install......

Disk 0 Parition 1: System Reserved, 100MB total, 86MB free, Type: System

Disk 0 Partition 2,  55.8GB total, 55.5GB free, Type: Primary

I chose Disk 0 Partition 2, it begins installation, then while still at 0% Exanded it gives me a "windows cannot install required files. Make sure all files required for installation are available, and restart the instaliation. Error code: 0x80070001."

I removed one 1GB Ram card, then tried installation again..... Same ERROR.  UGH. :emotion-12:

i did try that, and though i thought it was a silly idea, im trying anything at this point.

here's the result from that...  (Windows cannot be installed to Disk 0 Partition 1.  The selected partition requires at least 5722MB free space.)

Try to repartition the drive or partition/format it into one partition. If it's just a matter of free space that should fix it.

Jeff

You might want to read the post directly above yours. The one from the Dell Rep.

I believe he instructs the other user to install on PARTITION ONE. So your choice of PARTITION TWO might not be the thing to do.

Jeff :emotion-22:

thanks btw for your sugestions ;)

Okay, i made one partition.

Disk 0 Partition 1,  55.9GB total, 55.9GB free, Type: System

exact Same error. "windows cannot install required files. Make sure all files required for installation are available, and restart the instaliation. Error code: 0x80070001."

Grrrrrr is right! When you boot from the Win 7 disc what options are available. Is there an option for "Complete Install?" If so have you tried it?

Jeff :emotion-22: :emotion-22: :emotion-22:

Oooops: Did you also format the new single partition?

yup. On this disc they call it a "custom" install.  They give you two choices, "upgrade" or "custom".   I chose custom every time since i wiped the hard drive to begin with there isn't anything on it to upgrade.

i used a bootable CD with dos, then used the fdisk to delete and create a "Primary DOS partition"

I tried to install right after that but got "The Error",  then i formated the drive using the Windows 7 CD and tried the install again,  same error.

any other ideas?

full version.  Windows 7 Professional.  I have both 64bit and 32bit.

Im trying to install the 32 bit.

Is your Win 7 disc the full version or an upgrade disc?

Jeff

I searched the MS forums on this error code. The most common fix was to install the old OS and then upgrade. :emotion-7:

Might be worth a try. You need to try something else before your system ends up out in the yard!!!!!!!

Jeff :emotion-22: :emotion-22: :emotion-22: :emotion-22:

I don't have any other OS... this Windows 7 disk is it for me.

i just don't understand what the deal is... where is the DELL people when you need them?... ha ha.

so, Check this out... this guy shows screen shots for installing Windows 7 on a clean drive and Windows actually creates the 100MB system drive on its own.   I wiped it clean once again and went through the entire process over with the same old error... Amazing.

Thanks for you help Jeff... I'll probably just take this computer back and exchange it for another one.

I don't get it. It wouldn't install even with the 100MB drive Win created??? 100MB isn't a heck of a lot of room considering todays drives are measured in hundreds of GB's!! Not to mention that Microsoft sends Windows updates every 11 minutes.

Sorry I was unable to help you.

Jeff :emotion-22: :emotion-22: :emotion-22: :emotion-22: :emotion-22: :emotion-22: :emotion-46: