Winload.exe error in Windows 7 RC


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Since I'm reinstalling Windows anyway I figured I might as well install Windows 7 7100 instead.

I had downloaded the ISO from Microsoft the day it came out. I burned it to a DVD-R, and since it passed verification I deleted the ISO.

But now that I go and try to use the disc, using the keyboard shortcut Toshiba defined to select a different boot device on this machine, my laptop, after setup starts to load I get an error I've never seen in Windows before:

File \windows\system32\boot\winload.exe

Status: 0xc000001

Info: The selected entry could not be loaded because the application is missing or corrupt.

I did a bit of Googling and there are a lot of people have had this problem with Vista, usually a working installation. The thing is of course, I'm doing this on a clean install of Windows 7! I can't event boot off the disc successfully to get into Windows setup to run diagnostics, which naturally is the right thing to do on a working Windows installation gone bad.

Since I dual boot this system with openSUSE Linux, I was able to get back into Linux (after reinstalling the bootloader) and try again in a virtual machine. Same thing, I took a screenshot which is attached.

So I'm downloading the ISO again on the chance that it is the disc.

Is there something else I might be doing wrong?

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Did you have any luck fixing this? I'm having the same problem after installing the RC and it does it on both my XP and Win7 RC installs.

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Yeah, I had the same problem too. I think it's hard drive related, as I can install it just fine on an old 250gig western digital drive I have, but I get that error every time, on every build of 7 I try to install on my main terrabyte WD drive.

I don't know how I managed to get 7100 on the terrabyte drive, but I can't upgrade it to either of the two newer builds after 7100, so I was back to square one.

Still have no idea about the fix, so I can't help you there but I figured what little experience I had may end up helping

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It's strange, I tried downloading the 64-bit version twice and burnt it twice as well and that didn't work. When I tried to install the x86 and it worked first time. it's annoying though as i have 6gb of ram and the x86 version only recognises 3.5

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