My friend recently screwed up her computer recently and I took it upon myself to fix it, thinking that running chkdsk or Startup Repair would fix the problem. I ran Startup Repair first, and I still couldn't run Windows, so I ran Chkdsk. Chkdsk found, repaired and deleted a huge number of corrupt, orphaned, and otherwise unusable files. After doing all this and getting permission from my friend, I have decided to go ahead and reinstall Windows. For some reason, I could not format the parition that Windows was originally installed on, so I deleted it and made a new partition on the hard drive. I still can't install Windows and it's driving me crazy. I got error code 0x80070057 when trying to format the first partition and while trying to install Windows. What does this error code mean, and what can I do to reinstall Windows?
Error Installing Windows on a Partition
- Thread starter XxHollow
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Hi XxHollow,
Have you read this tutorial for clean installs of retail Vista and this one for an upgrade version?
Have you read this tutorial for clean installs of retail Vista and this one for an upgrade version?
My Computer
System One
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- Manufacturer/Model
- Dell XPS720
- CPU
- Intel Quad Q6600 2.40GHz
- Motherboard
- Dell 0YU822, NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI SPP / SLI MCP
- Memory
- 4GB DDR2 800MHz
- Graphics card(s)
- Gainward GeForce GTX 560 Ti, 1024 MB GDDR5
- Sound Card
- Creative SB X-Fi Xtreme Gamer
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Dell 2407WFP-HC
- Screen Resolution
- 1920x1200
- Hard Drives
- NVIDIA 640GB SATA Raid 0 (2x320GB) (7200 rpm) for Vista, Intel X25-M G2 160 GB for W7, Maxtor OT III External HDD, WD Elements 1 TB External HDD
- Internet Speed
- 100/20
- Other Info
- M779 PCIe PAL/SECAM/DVB-T Desktop TV Tuner. Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit Controller.
I have not, but I will now that I know they exist. I'll see if that helps. Thanks.
Edit: I have now looked at the tutorial, and I've done everything up to formatting the partition. This is where my problem happens. I simply cannot format that partition. I've been trying to reinstall Vista, but my computer encounters an error when I attempt to format a partition for the install. I tried deleting it and making a new partition and still no luck.
Edit: I have now looked at the tutorial, and I've done everything up to formatting the partition. This is where my problem happens. I simply cannot format that partition. I've been trying to reinstall Vista, but my computer encounters an error when I attempt to format a partition for the install. I tried deleting it and making a new partition and still no luck.
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My Computer
My Computer
System One
-
- Manufacturer/Model
- Dell XPS720
- CPU
- Intel Quad Q6600 2.40GHz
- Motherboard
- Dell 0YU822, NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI SPP / SLI MCP
- Memory
- 4GB DDR2 800MHz
- Graphics card(s)
- Gainward GeForce GTX 560 Ti, 1024 MB GDDR5
- Sound Card
- Creative SB X-Fi Xtreme Gamer
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Dell 2407WFP-HC
- Screen Resolution
- 1920x1200
- Hard Drives
- NVIDIA 640GB SATA Raid 0 (2x320GB) (7200 rpm) for Vista, Intel X25-M G2 160 GB for W7, Maxtor OT III External HDD, WD Elements 1 TB External HDD
- Internet Speed
- 100/20
- Other Info
- M779 PCIe PAL/SECAM/DVB-T Desktop TV Tuner. Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit Controller.
Yeah. There's one partition that's being used for recovery and another that has MediaDirect. I'm going to try loading the driver for the HDD and see if that will help.
My Computer
Fixed it. Windows wasn't being installed because the recovery partition was still there. A really odd thing for Windows to do, but my problem is fixed. Thanks for your help Submarine. Much appreciated.