JayDee Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 So I have a Toshiba Satellite C50 laptop running on Windows 10. I decided to install Windows 7 instead. I loaded the bootable Windows 7 CD and deleted all partition and installed Windows 7. This is where things get trick. After the installation is done, when reaching the screen that says "Starting Windows", nothing happens. I am stuck on that screen ans Windows 7 won't start. Anyone has and idea why is this happening ? Thank You Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfie Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 You could try booting with the Macrium Reflect Boot CD and see if the "repair boot" tool works - that has fixed things for me many times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogerio Luar Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 Hello, This one with an ISO error face, try to prepare a USB flash drive, if your USB ports are all 3.0, it will be more boring to install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karlston Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 Moved from Guides & Tutorials. (OS problems are better here) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eurobyn Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 I think you have to enter bios setup and change the boot mode from uefi to legacy windows 7 = legacy windows 10 = standard in uefi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rseiler Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 That could be, but would it have really gotten as far as it did if that was the problem? I thought it would have stopped before Windows started at all, but I'm unsure. If it's not that, try for Safe Mode, which I recall you could get into back then via hitting F8 a bunch of times as soon as the boot starts. If even that doesn't work, it's a bad sign. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eurobyn Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 Maybe harddisk is formatted as gpt and not as mbr ? try to make partition as mbr en start setup again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosy Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 6 hours ago, JayDee said: I decided to install Windows 7 instead Okay, you have to let us know if you formatted this particular partition, before trying to install Windows 7. If not, that was a mistake. Try to format this partition which you are using to install Windows 7 first. Make sure you have a USB or bootable CD of Windows 7, try to reinstall and let us know before we can advise on this We need more information, anything else, is just a speculation. Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karlston Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 This is for a C50-A, may be a different model to yours, can only find references to C50-A, C50-B, C50-C, and C50-D. Which is yours? Can only install GPT based OS's, minimum Windows 8... [Solved] Toshiba Satellite C50-A Windows 7 Installation Problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mehdibleu Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 Try to get another iso and proceed again to installation and see what happens. if the problem is still there, I suspect HDD is faulty or the ram too, so make sure to test both HDD and the ram to see if theythe health status for both is ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mehdibleu Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 11 hours ago, rseiler said: That could be, but would it have really gotten as far as it did if that was the problem? I thought it would have stopped before Windows started at all, but I'm unsure. yes exactly but only if he tries to install win7 on pure UEFI as we know that win7 can be hardly installed on pure uefi except under certain conditions. So he is probably trying to install win7 on uefi with csm enabled so it is unlikely that the problem comes from there. But he can also tries to install win7 only on legacy boot by deactivating uefi to see what will happen. he has nothing to loose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankl1n Posted May 11, 2020 Share Posted May 11, 2020 Here is what HWiNFO64 says about my system: My lappy is almost 7 yrs old I had no issues when installing Windows7 I believe that you should look into what @cosy and @Karlston post above. Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayDee Posted May 15, 2020 Author Share Posted May 15, 2020 Hello guys, sorry for this late reply. I tried everything you suggested but none work. I installed Windows 8 with no problems to mention, It boot it normally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karlston Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 13 minutes ago, JayDee said: I installed Windows 8 Hopefully you mean 8.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayDee Posted May 19, 2020 Author Share Posted May 19, 2020 On 5/15/2020 at 8:51 AM, Karlston said: Hopefully you mean 8.1 hahahaha yes 8.1 for sure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mp68terr Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 Are you sure that you don't have a faulty win7 cd? Now that you have a working system, what about trying your win7 cd in a VM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shwescorpion Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 On 5/10/2020 at 5:54 AM, JayDee said: So I have a Toshiba Satellite C50 laptop running on Windows 10. I decided to install Windows 7 instead. I loaded the bootable Windows 7 CD and deleted all partition and installed Windows 7. This is where things get trick. After the installation is done, when reaching the screen that says "Starting Windows", nothing happens. I am stuck on that screen ans Windows 7 won't start. That might be incompatible MBR and boot record. You need to do system repair. Boot from windows 7 CD, at the "Install Windows screen", click "Repair your computer", At the next screen click on option "use recovery tool" and click "next" On the next screen, choose "Command Prompt" At the command prompt, enter each command and hit the "Enter". bootrec /FixMBR bootrec /FixBoot bootrec /RebuildBcd The 2nd and 3rd command results will be different with your machine. Because I'm showing you without win7 system disk. On your system it should show "The operation completed successfully" After that restart the machine. Hope that help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayDee Posted May 21, 2020 Author Share Posted May 21, 2020 On 5/19/2020 at 1:33 PM, mp68terr said: Are you sure that you don't have a faulty win7 cd? Now that you have a working system, what about trying your win7 cd in a VM. The Windows 7 CD is working fine. Been using it without errors for a long time. On 5/19/2020 at 7:48 PM, shwescorpion said: That might be incompatible MBR and boot record. You need to do system repair. Boot from windows 7 CD, at the "Install Windows screen", click "Repair your computer", At the next screen click on option "use recovery tool" and click "next" On the next screen, choose "Command Prompt" At the command prompt, enter each command and hit the "Enter". bootrec /FixMBR bootrec /FixBoot bootrec /RebuildBcd The 2nd and 3rd command results will be different with your machine. Because I'm showing you without win7 system disk. On your system it should show "The operation completed successfully" After that restart the machine. Hope that help. Will try it soon thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbaron Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 Hi, have you solved? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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