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m3thods · 05-14-2014, 10:27 AM

Doesn't Windows format the drive that it's being installed on during the installation process? It's hard to believe that Windows 7 was able to be installed on anything other than NTFS.

Freezing can be a number of things. Follow the MSCONFIG advice to see if it's a rogue program during startup. But from my experience, it's almost always a bad hardware driver or a bad format/install. In two instances for me was it hardware (bad memory and dying PSU).

What I would do is the following:

-use msconfig to see if it's a program
-if the above doesn't yield a program, look for new motherboard driver updates, and install them via safe mode.
-if the above still yields freezing, try a reformat/reinstall of windows (this would be a good opportunity to create an image of a clean install for archiving. Makes reformats a million times easier. I use Acronis True Image but there are other (and free) alternatives I'm sure).
-if the above still yields freezing, try reinstalling onto your old disk drive. that would eliminate whether your SSD is the issue
-if that all fails, I'd start looking at your PSU and memory. But at that point, you might as well start looking at an upgrade

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m3thods Rs has made me the man i am today! Join Date: May 2008 Location: Burnaby Posts: 3,148 Thanked 1,053 Times in 595 Posts Failed 21 Times in 13 Posts	Doesn't Windows format the drive that it's being installed on during the installation process? It's hard to believe that Windows 7 was able to be installed on anything other than NTFS. Freezing can be a number of things. Follow the MSCONFIG advice to see if it's a rogue program during startup. But from my experience, it's almost always a bad hardware driver or a bad format/install. In two instances for me was it hardware (bad memory and dying PSU). What I would do is the following: -use msconfig to see if it's a program -if the above doesn't yield a program, look for new motherboard driver updates, and install them via safe mode. -if the above still yields freezing, try a reformat/reinstall of windows (this would be a good opportunity to create an image of a clean install for archiving. Makes reformats a million times easier. I use Acronis True Image but there are other (and free) alternatives I'm sure). -if the above still yields freezing, try reinstalling onto your old disk drive. that would eliminate whether your SSD is the issue -if that all fails, I'd start looking at your PSU and memory. But at that point, you might as well start looking at an upgrade Last edited by m3thods; 05-14-2014 at 10:33 AM.