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Richard0

Hello, it's me again. I started the installation of Windows 7; my original C drive had Windows XP on it. I deleted a lot of stuff, including most of my system restore points, so that I would have more than enough room for 7. Unfortunately, when it restarts and enters Windows Setup automatically, I get some blue screen, saying something like Setup with a bunch of 0's and 1's, and some X's I believe.

How can I get rid of this Windows Setup?

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SnOwBunZz

That is not a windows setup, it's a blue screen of death.

And:

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Richard0

I think I have a variant of the BSOD, I don't get that exact screen, but something similar to just the tecnical information. I have to quickly press the up or down button to use my earlier version of Windows, aka XP.

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SnOwBunZz

Something like this?

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Richard0

Yes! That's it! Only it says Windows Setup and not Vista, lol. My issue is that I have one second approximately to touch my keyboard before it automatically heads into Windows Setup.

If it helps, this is what it says on the blue screen:

STOP : 0X0000005C (0X0000010B, 0X00000003, 0X00000000, 0X00000000)

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SnOwBunZz

I don't know which BIOS you have (and me helping being a bit drunk doesn't help either), but in the BIOS there are boot options in which order your HDD, DVD and floppy drives boot. Change it to HDD 1st, DVD 2nd, floppy 3rd. 'It's a long shot with me being drunk. xd' ('' is edited and I already forgot how I came up with that LOL)

As to get rid of that screen, all I know is you need to edit a file in you Windows folder. Unfortunately I do not know which one you need to change, so I cannot help you on that.

As for the blue screen, google doesn't give real clear answers other then SATA not being supported during install of vista and BIOS version that might be outdated.

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Richard0

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I was told that there are boot files to delete, as well as Windows 7 files that were created.

I just want to get rid of the Windows 7 Setup lol, my desktop needs a serious upgrade in hardware anyway.

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SnOwBunZz

I'm quite lost now. Did you install W7 on top of XP?

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Richard0

Oh sorry to have confused you. I originally have 2 XP's on two separate drives, one for my dad in a different language and one I use. I wanted to install 7 in place of my own XP (I could not upgrade). Only I was really dumb, and ran the iso file from my drive, C. The same drive I want 7 on. I think this may be a big issue. My friend has also said something about turning off something like "ahci sata", or something like that.

I used my friend's CD when I couldn't fix this, to see if I could do it all over again. He has the beta RC version. Same issue. He told me to go into Bios and try to find anything with "Sata" in it and turn it off. I think I found one particular thing, I turned it from IDE to Disabled. Didn't help :S.

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SnOwBunZz

Use System rescue cd and format your drive from there, it is linux based, so pretty much every windows error do not apply. If you have any files you would like to have, you can move those files from within that application itself (it's pretty much an OS on a disk/USB drive) if I'm not mistaken.

Afterwards install W7/XP back, this time from either a disk or an usb drive.

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