Hurrumph gnrrr
Well the title says it all really. I tried to install windows 7 on my laptop and ran in to a series of increasing problems culminating in a dead laptop.
Firstly windows 7 won't install from a booted version of windows earlier than Vista so I tried a boot install instead. On booting the installer could not read any disk drives, asked me to load a driver and then promptly told me that none of my drives were compatible with the install requirements. Ok I thought well if I re-format then obviously that will fix that, surely I thought. No!! The formatting procedure allowed me to format partitions, delete partitions, make new partitions but not make partitions that will accept an install of Windows 7. Ok I thought to myself (starting to get frustrated now) I'll just forget this and re-install my old winXP. Ooops, oh dear now the install tells me that I have no hard disks installed at all. Oh well it was an old warhorse, had it for about 5 years and it was the badgers nadgers in its day, I would have liked to put it out to pasture, give it a notice retirement but not have it killed in the line of duty on some pointless raid!!!
Word to the wise, don't install Win7 on older machines, its just cruel really
r.i.p. Rock Extreme 3.7Ghz
Richard