I am on Linux and I got Windows 7 finally. I need to install windows 7 but I tried and it said the Hard Disk isn't NTFS or something like that.
Can somebody help me change my hard disk type to NTFS? I have nothing to lose on this computer so I can do whatever is needed.
Also, before I came to linux, on my vista (that is now corrupted and I deleted it) My Hard Disk was partitioned. its a 500gb HDD and it was split up into about 250 gb each. I need to do that again.
Well if you have nothing to lose, I would install a clean copy of Windows, partitioning the drive equally, and then installing Linux on a Dual boot.
EDIT: Format the drive first, and then install Windows.
Oh sorry I thought nobody would see the thread.
I did format it by booting from my linux cd and used the disk utility to format it and turn it to FAT. So everything was clean and I installed windows 7 and it just hanged at a screen that looked like the desktop without explorer loaded. you know, the default background?
This happened before. my brother pirated windows 7 and screwed up our computer and then it hanged at VERIFYING DMI POOL DATA _
but now its different but it still hangs in a different area.
Just remove all partitions. IIRC the Windows installer should create a partition for itself.
You might actually want to keep your drive partitioned, but it sounds like the installer isn't recognizing the two partitions as separate drives. Reformat the drive, install the HDD drivers if the drive came with a CD, and then try installing Windows.
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