Author Topic: Installing a Fresh New Windows. (Read 1197 times)

Edman · July 17, 2011, 10:35:08 PM

My computer has been acting up, so I decided im going to reinstall windows. I have 3 ~~Hewlet~~ HP Win7 os disks. So what do I do now?

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FrozenEye · July 17, 2011, 10:36:58 PM

Install Windows 7

Caution · July 17, 2011, 10:37:24 PM

Have you ever heard of Google?

Altered · July 17, 2011, 10:37:53 PM

Install all 3 at the same time

Post results.

otto-san · July 17, 2011, 10:41:46 PM

Quote from: Altered on July 17, 2011, 10:37:53 PM

Install all 3 at the same time

Post results.

lol

Ethan · July 17, 2011, 10:45:39 PM

Get everything that you need/want off, and on to a flash drive or external hard drive.
Then, put one in, and choose the reformat option, then put it in again once that is done and install.

asablief · July 17, 2011, 10:46:30 PM

I have no space left on any of my hard drive.

BRB deleting system 32 (that helps right)

Edman · July 17, 2011, 10:47:13 PM

Quote from: Ethan on July 17, 2011, 10:45:39 PM

Get everything that you need/want off, and on to a flash drive or external hard drive.
Then, put one in, and choose the reformat option, then put it in again once that is done and install.

Thanks you.
See yal in a bit.

Jacob/Lee · July 17, 2011, 10:48:09 PM

Quote from: Altered on July 17, 2011, 10:37:53 PM

Install all 3 at the same time

Post results.

My dad managed to install Windows XP on one drive and 7 on another, I can boot either one.

Not really useful or ontopic, but might as well chat.

frogger3140 · July 17, 2011, 10:54:39 PM

Quote from: Jacob/Lee on July 17, 2011, 10:48:09 PM

My dad managed to install Windows XP on one drive and 7 on another, I can boot either one.

Not really useful or ontopic, but might as well chat.

Dual-booting is moderately easy. If you have one hard drive, split your hard drive into 2 partitions. One partition will be the primary one, and the other will be the secondary OS. If you have two hard drives, (of course one of them has a primary OS before you did this

) install the secondary OS on the other.

Private McDoggy · July 17, 2011, 11:20:09 PM

Quote from: asablief on July 17, 2011, 10:46:30 PM

I have no space left on any of my hard drive.

BRB deleting system 32 (that helps right)

Yes, it has a lot of useless things that nobody needs

Nickelob Ultra · July 17, 2011, 11:32:56 PM

Quote from: frogger3140 on July 17, 2011, 10:54:39 PM

Dual-booting is moderately easy. If you have one hard drive, split your hard drive into 2 partitions. One partition will be the primary one, and the other will be the secondary OS. If you have two hard drives, (of course one of them has a primary OS before you did this ) install the secondary OS on the other.

If you're going to install Windows XP and dualboot 7 as well, install XP first, THEN Windows 7. Windows 7's boot manager is backwards compatible, and will allow you to boot Windows XP as well. However, XP's boot manager can't boot Windows 7 or Vista because they are newer. You would have to go into recovery mode through your windows 7 DVD and repair it.

CanadianPenguin · July 18, 2011, 12:55:57 AM

Quote from: Nickelob Ultra on July 17, 2011, 11:32:56 PM

If you're going to install Windows XP and dualboot 7 as well, install XP first, THEN Windows 7. Windows 7's boot manager is backwards compatible, and will allow you to boot Windows XP as well. However, XP's boot manager can't boot Windows 7 or Vista because they are newer. You would have to go into recovery mode through your windows 7 DVD and repair it.

Or you could just use another boot manager like GRUB, in which case it wouldn't matter which order you installed them in.

brickybob · July 18, 2011, 12:58:42 AM

I hope he knows what drivers are...

Nickelob Ultra · July 18, 2011, 01:00:13 AM

Quote from: CanadianPenguin on July 18, 2011, 12:55:57 AM

Or you could just use another boot manager like GRUB, in which case it wouldn't matter which order you installed them in.

Or that. I don't have something like that. I've only had Windows 7 and Windows XP.