Windows 7 error.

Hi,

My girlfriends brother is having an issue with an installation of Windows 7. Since my work with Windows 7 is minimal, i couldn't really give my best answer.

This is the error... "Windows cannot access the installation sources. Verify that the installation sources are accessible, and restart the installation".

On first glance, i thought there could be an issue with the RAM, it's not that. Then I thought, it's probably a bad sector in the hdd that it's just not reading correctly. It's a brand new built computer.

Has anyone ever seen this error?

Thanks.

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za3bour

If it's a brand new compute then I think the problem could be with the DVD itself, try installing it on another PC and see if it's working fine.

When are you getting this message ? at the beginning or during installation ?

MAC_Addy

za3bour wrote: »

If it's a brand new compute then I think the problem could be with the DVD itself, try installing it on another PC and see if it's working fine.

When are you getting this message ? at the beginning or during installation ?

It's after the installation, when the computer is actually booting up.

SephStorm

Either the install media was unable to install a critical file from the disk(unlikely, install would have stopped), or there is a problem with the hard drive. Is the boot partition compressed or encrypted? I agree with za, see if you can install without issues on another machine or VM.

(Google research indicates a badd HDD or memory, likely hdd.)

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2023989

http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=221642