Not Able to Install any Windows Version

Question

I have a problem with Windows installation on my laptop. Here is what I have done so far;

I tried using 2 different USB (16 GB Toshiba and some other 8GB USB) to install Windows.

I tried burning to a DVD and install.

I tried both NTFS and Fat32 as installation options.

I tried Rufus, WinToFlash, Windows Media Creation Tool (Downloaded Windows 10 and made boot USB)

I tried installing Windows 7. When the installation completes, I can open Windows 7, but when I install either CPU driver or a GPU driver blue screen error comes. If I open with Safe Mode and delete the drivers and then do Recovery, it works but again when I install one of the drivers it's game over. All the drivers I try to install are the correct and most up-to-date drivers.

I tried installing Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10. After successful installation of them I receive immediately blue screen error (after the first reboot when the install complete). None of the Troubleshoot options works, none of the CMD codes I have tried works.

In total I must have at least tried installing Windows 20 times (a combination of all the things above)

I have used HD-Tune Pro to find if there is any problem with the disk. I ran the Error Scan (Long one) and all green, no problem with the disk, no bad sectors. Health option also shows all OK. The disk I am using is Corsair Force GS 120 GB SSD.

I was using Ubuntu before I uninstalled it and tried to use Windows. Right now, after all those fails, I went back to Ubuntu and installed Ubuntu 16.04 and everything works right now, however, I need to use Windows and I don't want to use it inside a virtual machine from Ubuntu.

My guess is there is something wrong with either my BIOS or there is an actual hardware problem with my GPU (I recently renewed the thermal paste on GPU and CPU so there is a slight chance that I might have damaged something though I have been doing this for years and I highly doubt that's the case).

My laptop is MSI GE620DX-802xtr, the only change I made few years ago was to change the HDD to this SSD (I have used Windows on this exact system before like a year ago and then had to install Ubuntu for work and now trying to go back to Windows). The system is right now like this;

• CPU: Intel Core i5 2450m
• GPU: Nvidia GeForce GT 635M and Intel HD Graphics 3000
• RAM: 6GB 1333 MHz DDR3
• SSD: Corsair Force GS 120GB

Here is how my BIOS looks like;

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Even though HD-Tune says it's fine, is there still any chance that the SSD is indeed problematic? (though you can see that right now Ubuntu is installed and computer works fine so, no I guess).

What am I missing here?

Answer 1

Happened to me after using Ubuntu

Run ur install again and try this.

2) Navigate Repair Your Computer --> Command Prompt.

3) In the Command Prompt window, type diskpart and press enter.

4) Type list disk and press Enter to list all the disk drives.

5) Type select disk + disk number, here you can find the number of the target disk by referring to the listed disk information.

6) Type clean to wipe all files and folders on the selected disk.

7) Type create partition primary and press Enter.

8) After diskpart successfully created the specified partition, type format fs=ntfs (or format fs=exfat) and press Enter. You're telling diskpart to format the drive with a file system, let it be NTFS, exFAT, etc.

9) At last, assign a drive letter to the newly created partition by typing assign.

Might take a few tries

Then try re installing if windows 7 doesn’t work try 10

Answer 2

The problem was caused by a faulty RAM. I had 2 RAMs running ( 2GB + 4GB ) and once I removed the 4GB from the system, everything started to work.. Therefore, solution was indeed hardware based.

Answer 3

Try burning using another program called Ultra ISO and make sure write method is set to USB-HDD