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Windows could not finish configuring the system...restart 10-11-17 8:53 AM United States (English) Sign in Search Windows with Bing Home Windows 7 Windows Vista Windows XP Library Forums Windows Client TechCenter > Windows 7 IT Pro Forums > Windows 7 Installation, Setup, and Deployment > Need Help with Forums? (FAQ) Windows could not finish configuring the system...restart My Forum Links Ask a question Search Forums: Search Windows 7 Installation, Setup, and Deployment Forum Sign In To Forums Forums Home Windows could not finish configuring the Browse Forums Users system...restart flicknstock Sunday, January 11, 2009 6:13 AM Not sure what happened, but I keep getting the error: Windows could not finish configuring the system. To attempt to resume configuration, restart the 0 computer. Sign In to Vote I tried to boot in safe mode and it gave me the same error. Any thoughts on what to try or is this a lost cause? I can't remember all the stats of the computer since it is a backup one, but it does surpass all the requirements. Reply Quote Related Topics Answers = Unanswered = Answered flicknstock Tuesday, January 13, 2009 4:12 AM Windows could not finish configuring the system... restart failure Vista is stuck on the "configuring updates" After formatting the hard drive and re-installing everything I was able to get past my issue. My guess is that some file was left from the random files previously on the HD and win7 wasn't able screen... 0 to format it correctly. Sign In to Vote In case anyone else needs...I used GParted to format the drive. Statistics Marked As Answer by flicknstock Tuesday, January 13, 2009 4:13 AM Started: 1/11/2009 Last Reply: 4:25 PM Reply Quote Helpful Votes: 17 Replies: 108 Views: 27,108 All Replies Daniel_Nerenberg MVP, Moderator Sunday, January 11, 2009 6:40 AM Where in the setup process does this occur? Is it during the initial phase where you choose the hard drive? or is it during the installation phase where you have the checklist? 0 Sign In to Daniel Nerenberg MCT MCSE MCITP MCTS MVP Vote Reply Quote flicknstock Sunday, January 11, 2009 5:47 PM It is after the initial phase right after the first restart. Windows says "Starting" (with the fuzzy icon) 0 Sign In to Then in the blue sunlit background Vote setup is updating registry settings setup is starting services then error http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproinstall/thread/b72212b0-3131-4194-89a1-7c101749e2b2 Page 1 of 39 Windows could not finish configuring the system...restart 10-11-17 8:53 AM I'm past the checklist. I'm looking at the setupact.log file and it says it has completed phase 2...but not sure exactly whats after phase 2 or where to find phase 3. I've tried re-installing everything but the same issue happens. The part I'm at does allow me to do the Shift+F10 to bring up the cmd window. I've tried booting with every available option and they all fail at this point. I was looking for the boot log to see if that had any insight, but I can't even find the file (so either I'm looking in the wrong spot or it isn't being created....i'm leaning toward the first option) The hard drive that I'm using did contain an older OS (2K, I think), but I did pick the option to do a clean install so I didn't expect that to cause an issue. Reply Quote flicknstock Tuesday, January 13, 2009 4:12 AM After formatting the hard drive and re-installing everything I was able to get past my issue. My guess is that some file was left from the random files previously on the HD and win7 wasn't able 0 to format it correctly. Sign In to Vote In case anyone else needs...I used GParted to format the drive. Marked As Answer by flicknstock Tuesday, January 13, 2009 4:13 AM Reply Quote TJude Thursday, May 14, 2009 1:59 PM I'm getting the same error on a new RC upgrade install. It says "Windows could not finish configuring the system. To attempt to resume configuration, restart the computer." and, upon 0 restart, returns this same message over and over. I've installed W7B on a lesser powered laptop Sign In to and everything is running great and fast. This install is on a faster desktop and is W7RC1. Vote Compatibility checker ran perfectly. Not willing to do a clean install - don't have that kind of time to donate to MS. If anyone has any ideas on how they got past this, I'd appreciate it. Note to MS: This is a pretty poor way to handle an error condition, assuming that is the issue. Reply Quote mithrilG60 Friday, May 15, 2009 3:37 PM My experience has been similar to as TJude's. Installation would proceed to the final configuration when I'd get stuck in an endless reboot cycle of a crash and reboot during service 0 configuration followed by the "Windows did not start properly" option screen. If I attempt to start Sign In to in Safe Mode I'm given a screen informing my that setup cannot continue in Safe Mode and I Vote must reboot (which of course puts me back into the reboot loop). This happens with both x86 and x64 version of W7RC1. I've tried the installation as a clean install, both on a partition on my primary drive and on a separate dedicated drive. Also tried it as an in-place upgrade to Vista Ultimate, same issues. The system passes the Windows 7 system compatibility test with flying colours. It's not exactly confidence inspiring if the "latest and greatest" is unable to install on 1 year old hardware that MS's own compatibilty test says is more than sufficient ......... Hardware: Asus P5N-EM HMDI mobo Intel E8400 Core2 Duo 3.0ghz proc 4gb DDR2 Corsair PC-6400 ram 500gb 7200.11 Seagate SATA (primary drive, installing onto 100gb partition) 80gb Seagate PATA (tried as dedicated drive for Win7) 2x Samsung SH-223F dvd-burner Reply Quote BlackHawk9 http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproinstall/thread/b72212b0-3131-4194-89a1-7c101749e2b2 Page 2 of 39 Windows could not finish configuring the system...restart 10-11-17 8:53 AM Friday, May 15, 2009 11:15 PM I'm having the same problem.. Completely fresh install on new Sata Hdd. Formatted drive and did custom install. Gets to the same error noted in previous posts. Wiped drive and did anothe 0 completely fresh install.. Stopped again at the same place. Until I see a workaround or fix for Sign In to this, I won't be doing another install.. Not a very good start when you can't get past first base.... Vote :( ASUS P5WD2-E INTEL Pentium D 3.2Ghz cpu 2GB PC2-4300 Ram 500Gb Hitachi Deskstar 7200rpm drive (install to complete drive) ATI Radeon X1800 512MB Video LG SuperMulti DVD Burner Reply Quote netjim66 Friday, May 15, 2009 11:48 PM Yep that's where I'm at now. Went through the pain of building up a system, syspreped, imagex- ed it, copied it to my deployment and start a new install. 0 I get the same error you are getting. Sign In to Vote Did the same on a Virtual PC and had no problems... I have not tried completely wiping the drive, partitions and all just yet on target system. The target system is the same hardware model as the syspreped system. Proposed As Answer by hankinnc Saturday, May 16, 2009 12:12 AM Reply Quote hankinnc Saturday, May 16, 2009 12:16 AM Try this that worked for me. Put install disk in CD drive and reboot. Do not tell the bios to boot from the CD. After I did this (accidentally) the windows opening screen came up with the 2 0 choices: Run Windows or repair your computer. I chose run and it has been working fine ever Sign In to since. I have no idea why. Vote Hank Reply Quote TJude Saturday, May 16, 2009 4:58 PM Try this that worked for me. Put install disk in CD drive and reboot. Do not tell the 0 bios to boot from the CD. After I did this (accidentally) the windows opening screen came up with the 2 choices: Run Windows or repair your computer. I chose run and Sign In to it has been working fine ever since. I have no idea why. Vote Hank Thanks for that thought, but I am not asking it to boot from the CD anyway - I simply put the install DVD in the drive and it auto-launches. I will try booting from that DVD, a variant of your post, and will post back with results. ... As I suspected - that didn't work! Microsoft needs to fix this. I was pretty excited about the beta, but this RC1 has blown my confidence. Alas! Reply Quote BlackHawk9 Sunday, May 17, 2009 9:35 PM Finally got RC1 to install.. I formatted my drive Fat32 using PartitionMagic 8 . During install Windows won't install on a FAT partition, so I used the install to format to NTFS. AFter that, 0 everything installed fine.. There are times when it appears like there's nothing happening, but Sign In to there it.. Need to give it time I gess.