First of all, I cant boot my windows 7. I get a black screen with a cursor up in the left corner. So, I tried using windows 7 installation which I've put on my flash drive. To boot from the drive, I've changed the boot order to boot from the drive first. It boots but does not find any HDD to install the windows on(which is pretty logic, I dont boot the HDD soon enough for the installer). but if i put the HDD in front of the flash drive in the boot order, it will just try to load windows 7 and i will get the black screen again. I've tried putting the HDD first and clicking f8 a lot. All I've got is an error. Something about some software change. I dunno. Help me please, cant do anything with my laptop till then.
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I get this behaviour (black screen, flashing cursor) if I have certain brands of USB flash drives plugged in during boot, regardless of the boot order. When I remove all flash drives and reboot, Windows starts normally. | |||
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Not being able to boot with USB flash attached could also be a problem with motherboard BIOS.Especially on older motherboards.For example my ASUS A8N32 SLI-Deluxe recieved an updated BIOS that fixes a problem of this nature. And if you are still not able to boot then i would be better to disconnect all unnessesary drives/devices during install and optionally load driver for SATA/IDE controller. Also make sure Win7 is original.I dont really trust 3rd party manufacturer disks or ones downloaded from torrent and dubious sources. | |||
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