Bootcamp Win7 FAIL

[Tachyon]

Greetz macheads,

perhaps a challenge for some of you gurus out there. I've been running a dual boot Snow Leopard/Win 7 setup for the past year since I got my MBP 15" Uni.. basically for gaming and windows specific rubbishes like IE which I need to test on for work.

About 2 weeks ago while jamming Starcraft II the game stuttered and then bombed me out of Win7. Since then I've had regular freezes, blue screens and beach balls across both OS's which is flippen annoying since I loathe having to use my windows machine at work!

Today I finally had enough, backed up as much as I could and just nuked the Win partition.. hey presto, could actually work in OSX again.. what a pleasure. I've just tried to bootcamp Win7 again freshly but it's a no-go at around the 75% installation mark and just bombs.

So, I'm thinking it's either:

1. Installation file issue - which would be weird since it's been running quite smooth for a year.
2. Some sort of HDD corruption issue

I've done disk utility permissions/repairs, apple hardware test and ran onyx. Nothing serious to report from what I can tell but I'm no expert

Thoughts?

 

[Synaesthesia]

Yowser. Yip the issue is obviously with the Windows install disk, (hopefully), or your MacBook Pro. Try another install disk, or installing it from USB, Those DVD-ROMS can be really unreliable for installs.

 

[Tachyon]

Yowser. Yip the issue is obviously with the Windows install disk, (hopefully), or your MacBook Pro.

haha that really narrows it down

Those DVD-ROMS can be really unreliable for installs.

Interesting.. why do you say that?

 

[Synaesthesia]

Because sometimes they have errors when installing Windows - it could be my drive or my scratchy disk or whatever.

Disk Utility can check your hard drive for some sorts of errors. I do recommend having a full backup, just in case your hard drive is busy dying or something.

 

[The Rat]

Because sometimes they have errors when installing Windows - it could be my drive or my scratchy disk or whatever.

Disk Utility can check your hard drive for some sorts of errors. I do recommend having a full backup, just in case your hard drive is busy dying or something.

Graphics issue...Had the exact same issue. Had to delete graphics drivers via dos command prompt. Google Windows 7 Boot camp blackscreen, the problem is related.

 

[Tachyon]

Drive is corrupt.. upgrade here we come!