Why Does Windows 7 Restart the Entire Installation Process After It Restarts From Installing?
October 25th, 2009 Software 3 Comments

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I’m trying to install Windows 7 and it says it will restart multiple times doing so. Well, when it restarts, my computer asks me to press any key to load from CD/DVD, and Windows 7 starts over.

Why?

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3 Responses to “Why Does Windows 7 Restart the Entire Installation Process After It Restarts From Installing?”

  • gicutale 27October2009

    You have to press any key just one time, the very first time the install begins. Second restart, third, and so, just let it boot and you’ll reach the finish. Good luck!

  • Yeti 30October2009

    It’ll restart several times, and at different stages you can sometimes press a key to accelerate what it will do automatically anyway by a few seconds.

    You might have something going on with your CD/DVD drive or your BIOS startup settings or something, but otherwise I’d just start the install and let it run without interference. It will restart several times, but each time it’s actually a little bit farther ahead in the install process, or at least should be.

  • LoverOfWine 30October2009

    That has nothing to do with Windows 7 but is the BIOS in your machine. Certain classes of BIOS don’t assume that you want to boot from CD/DVD so will always ask if a bootable one is there.

    In your case you want to tell the computer to do it only once, when you begin the installation, not anytime after. Doing it after will restart the installation process from the beginning. If you ignore the prompt and not press a key, then the current state of the Win7 install will take over an resume the installation.

    You could also pop out the CD/DVD after it reboots to avoid the prompt. If it needs something it will prompt you for the disk again.

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