Whats your worst experience of installing windows

Leprechaun312 · 18 Jan 2013 at 18:31

Just took me a good 4 hours to install windows and now im in trying to install amd catalyst control centre annnddddd i cant see the next button great anybody else have the same amount of fun as me?

estebanrey · 18 Jan 2013 at 18:33

They all fell out .

Raymond Lin · 18 Jan 2013 at 18:33

Now create an image of it for next time.

Bennie-Mac · 18 Jan 2013 at 18:35

My worst experience was installing windows only to find out it was Vista.

Leprechaun312 · 18 Jan 2013 at 18:36

also making good use of internet explorers sole function, downloading another internet browser

mmj_uk · 18 Jan 2013 at 18:38

Leprechaun312 said:
Just took me a good 4 hours to install windows and now im in trying to install amd catalyst control centre annnddddd i cant see the next button great anybody else have the same amount of fun as me?

That's an ATI driver problem it's been like that for years their Q&A is atrocious, all they had to do was make the window smaller.

I think mine would be Windows 8.

Leprechaun312 · 18 Jan 2013 at 18:40

mmj_uk said:
That's an ATI driver problem it's been like that for years their Q&A is atrocious, all they had to do was make the window smaller.

I think mine would be Windows 8.

yeah windows 8 is unbelievably awful, the only the good thing i found about it was the fact tht it installed all of my drivers for my internal parts but other than that its pretty awful

Gilly · 18 Jan 2013 at 18:41

ME

That is all

StriderX · 18 Jan 2013 at 18:46

I hope one day they just offer the OS on Mobos directly, surely it would even be possible now.

So sick of discs.

Devrij · 18 Jan 2013 at 19:14

XP. It was such a nightmare getting the drivers sorted. Oh I can just hop online and download them. Nope, the network card driver isn't installed. I'll just download them on another pc and install them from usb. Nope, usb controller needs a driver. Aaaaaargh!

The other week I put a new cpu and mobo in my win8 build, and it just updated all the drivers and was fine. That's progress.

Deleted member 77746 · 18 Jan 2013 at 19:24

no bad experiences.

TommyV · 18 Jan 2013 at 19:25

None here either. And ever since installing onto SSD the installation process is a lot quicker.

nath247 · 18 Jan 2013 at 19:28

Installing XP on an old Abit board that had a dodgy IDE controller, spent weeks trying to figure out why it kept BSOD'ing, turned out that IDE hard drives causes the crashing. Solution: upgrade to SATA.

gillywibble · 18 Jan 2013 at 19:31

I once accidentally the whole disc.

strang3r · 18 Jan 2013 at 19:34

Devrij said:
XP. It was such a nightmare getting the drivers sorted. Oh I can just hop online and download them. Nope, the network card driver isn't installed. I'll just download them on another pc and install them from usb. Nope, usb controller needs a driver. Aaaaaargh!

This but with added not having a PS2 keyboard handy so working keyboard for a while.

pingwing · 18 Jan 2013 at 19:36

Leprechaun312 said:
also making good use of internet explorers sole function, downloading another internet browser

That's just depressing every time.

Gilly said:
ME

That is all

Oh god! Repressed memories for all...

MaxP779 · 18 Jan 2013 at 19:37

Its a tie between these:

- Installing windows 95. I was 10 years old and pretty new to PC's. The manual said something along the lines of "type x:\Windows\setup.exe where x is the letter of the CD drive you are installing from" So what do i do? I spend hours typing "x:\Windows\setup.exe" and getting nowhere lol. I eventually figured it out though and typed "d:\Windows\setup.exe".

- Installing windows 8, the installation went fine but ugh... yuck! When i saw that tacky fisher price start screen for the first time i was horrified.

LOAM · 18 Jan 2013 at 19:37

I killed my entire family

nath247 · 18 Jan 2013 at 19:40

Installing Windows ME on an old pc and being greeted with a BSOD on 2nd boot multiple times, moved to Windows 2000 and problem solved.

V4NT0M · 18 Jan 2013 at 19:49

Never had a problem installing any version of Windows.