ever had probems reinstalling windows?

[Guest acdcman200]

What are your guys story's for errors when re installing. I remember when i was first getting into fixing pcs and i ran into the good old gpt error file system. that thing threw me for a loop when i was first starting. all i had to do was go shift f10 and type diskpart then list disk then select disk 0 then clean then it installed like a charm. What was the errors you guys have ran into over the years?

[Ertman]

File setupdd.sys could not be loaded. The error code is

Turned out to be a ram thing

[OnekillWalter]

last year I had a "funny" encounter with a overly scratched Win7 installating CD. didnt think about it at the time, so i backup my data on my external HDD, and proceed to restart my computer with the said Win7 CD. Once it loaded win7, asked on wich drive to install, I obviously wiped the drive clean and proceed with the installation. everything was going smooth until it reached 93% "error files missing yadada" ok. no problem lets try again. failed again. and again. well, im fucked am thinking. then i remembered and story about tooth paste and scratched cd brought back to life.

with nothing to lose, I rush to the bathroom, check my tooth paste, Sensodine whitening or whatever. I applied a small amount of tooth paste on the cd and rubbed gently with a cloth until all the paste is removed. kinda fill-in the cd scratches. Cd smelled nice and minthy. shoved it in the pc. resumed installation. 92%-93%....94% SUCCESS!!! 

 

 

TLDR: toothpaste saved my win7 cd. 

edit: works only with paste, not gel.

[Guest acdcman200]

last year I had a "funny" encounter with a overly scratched Win7 installating CD. didnt think about it at the time, so i backup my data on my external HDD, and proceed to restart my computer with the said Win7 CD. Once it loaded win7, asked on wich drive to install, I obviously wiped the drive clean and proceed with the installation. everything was going smooth until it reached 93% "error files missing yadada" ok. no problem lets try again. failed again. and again. well, im fucked am thinking. then i remembered and story about tooth paste and scratched cd brought back to life.

with nothing to lose, I rush to the bathroom, check my tooth paste, Sensodine whitening or whatever. I applied a small amount of tooth paste on the cd and rubbed gently with a cloth until all the paste is removed. kinda fill-in the cd scratches. Cd smelled nice and minthy. shoved it in the pc. resumed installation. 92%-93%....94% SUCCESS!!! 

 

 

TLDR: toothpaste saved my win7 cd. 

edit: works only with paste, not gel.

lol best way to install windows is with toothpaste

[LogicalDrm]

I've messed the usernames for number of times and done reinstall just because of that. I mean, its pretty fast process anyway so why not. Last time I had some trouble setting SSD and HDD the way I wanted and installed again twice.

[TomvanWijnen]

I had a problem where it wouldn't show the 4 coloured bulbs, took me like three days to notice 8GB DDR2 RAM might've been to much...

[Skrizzles]

The STUPID usb installer from Microsoft.

 

The usb boot disk creator works fine. But the .iso file  for WIN7 64-bit HPE you download from Microsoft to use with it, is corrupted(or at least it was two weeks ago.) I had to go back to an older .iso I had created from the install disk. Then I got to install updates for the next 8 days, until it got up to date.Every time I would install updates and restart, it would find more updates.