Microsoft Windows 7 Installation Problem Wont start

Came across this problem today when installing windows 7 64-bit via clean install using boot from cd. At first it seemed to install correctly and when windows decided to restart the computer to finish the installation it would not boot from the hard drive to complete as it should.

It just froze in the same state, so after working about with the computer to troubleshoot the problem I discovered that the problem was the following: I had a slave hard drive installed and this seemed to cause problems. So I removed the other storage drive and kept the main C:/ drive and off she went (as they say) so I treated myself to a good old cup of tea :)

One other small problem was that at the beginning windows 7 would not install due to needing the drivers for certain media. It insisted on the drivers before the install would contuinue. It appeared to want RAID drivers however the problem appears if you are using the wrong version of the operating system. Ie (x86)

BSOD F854A0BF Installing XP Problem Formatting ?

STOP: 0x0000007E (0xC0000005, 0xF854A0BF, 0xF8996208, 0xF8995F08) pci.sys - Address F854A0BF base at F8543000. Datestamp 3b7d855c

During an installation of XP onto a laptop or a desktop, we had many complaints of this error.

So why does it happen? It's simple (Take it from me, or spend hours on googs)
It happens as the computer was more than likely not designed for XP or some parts inside were not. And trying to run the setup is causing conflict between software and parts resulting in this error.

How to fix it ?
You are more than likely using XP with SP1 or worse just plain old 2002 XP with no service pack. If so you will need to install or (Slipstream) your own service pack onto your existing disc then create a new disc with the service pack included.

Basically installing the operating system with a newer or newest service pack will fix this problem.

I will now give credit to another website who lets face it does a pretty good job of explaining slipstreaming. Click the link below:

http://www.msfn.org/articles.php?action=show&showarticle=49

Also you may find it useful to use the NLite program to slipstream and a quick search on google should find it.

Please leave comments if this works for you and show support for similar articles so i feel as though im actually helping people and not just having fun lol :)