Loading OS Boot Fail

Defeated, in debt. After $400, 6 weeks of stress, 2 trips to Geek Squad, I still have a sick computer.

My story started when I upgraded to Win 10, then a few weeks later got a windows errors that was freezing my computer. Decided to downgrade back to Win 7 and my computer has never worked since.

After trying to boot from disk and play around with settings in boot disk mode I gave up and took in to Geek Squad for first time in my life. They said bad mobo. Got new mobo. Nothing. Took back. They said bad graphics card. I get to the bios fine. All my hard drives show up just fine. I then go to advanced set up to install a brand new Win 7. It gets to second line (forgot name) and stays at 0% for long time. Restart computer to see whats up. Boot drive selected. PC temp is fine. Go to retry and now I can't even access CD. Bootmgr error. I did nothing but restart my computer. Checked to make sure boot 1 from CD Rom. This is the same behavior as when I first tried after downgrading to Win 7 screwed up my computer.

Additional info. I have 3 hard drives. One 120gb SSD that I keep trying to load OS on. One 240 SSD. and One TB traditional. Geek Squad testing all hard drives and said they were fine. Id greatly appreciate any help.

Ok sorry. Looks like my 120gb SSD is longer visible in BIOS. This same thing happened before...

I wouldn't trust geek squad at all. You either have a bad ssd drive or bad sata cable.

Agreed going forward. Thanks for the reply. But I unplugged the troubled SSD and rebooted and now I can't get windows CD to boot at all. Could the bad SSD corrupted the windows CD? Could this be a bad CD-ROM?

The cd can't get corrupted. Try using a different bootable cd and see if it works.

I'm sorry I must be misinterperting what your saying bc it seems conflicting. If the CD can't get corrupted then why would I try a different CD?

To see if its the cd drive that is bad.

Tried new sata. Helped me get to 13% but then freeze again. Just ordered new cd drive. Will post back in a few.

Tried new cd drive and nothing. Tried my second SSD and almost got to 100% complete install but after rebooted, the install fell through. What could be the issue here? Maybe buy new windows OS cd?

Is the cd scratched?

I didn't notice anything. Both times I tried install on the two SSDs there was a bootmgr error/missing. I was thinking of buying brand new SSD and brand new win 7 OS and trying fresh install. Thoughts on this route?

I would also look at a possibly bad hard drive. There are only a few things that would cause a failed install.

1. Bad CD
2. Bad hard drive
3. Bad memory

Btw, thanks so far for the help john. So as a last minute hail mary, I decide to try one more thing. I unplugged my original SSD that I used to have windows on prior (lets call SSD I). Then I got win 7 to load properly on SSD II. Then I re-plugged in SSD I. Looks like some of my files erased but some still there. Lots of weird windows files. Then I was running into issues similiar to when my computer originally crashed. Tried downloading programs or other simple tasks and my computer would freeze, but not everytime. Then when I go to shut off it just stays in windows shutting off mode and not turning off. So I unplug SSD I again and so far no problems. So my question is, could SSD I have a virus or just corrupted and spreading to other parts of my system?

Also, when I marginally loaded windows onto SSD II and didn't work there is old.windows files but never completed and taking up 8gbs. Can I delete this?

Can only assume that SSD 1 is bad. You will get windows.old folder when you try to reinstall windows without first deleting partitions on drive.

Hey johnb35. My computer has been running smoothly minus one issue. It continues to fail installing windows 7 updates. The first time it went to install updates there were about 250. Now about 200 but continues to fail when I try to install them. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

Most likely it's only a few that won't update, namely Microsoft net framework software which can be a pain to get installed. Do updates manually and unselected all net framework updates and install the balance first. Then go back to net framework and try again. If it still don't work right then usually what I do is uninstall all framework software from programs and features and install the latest framework and then check for updates.

Ok thanks so much for quick response. Will try later and let you know if solves issue.

Yeah I had similar issues while updating win 8 after a re-install... I updated by groups of 10 to 20 and it worked but when I tried to update all at once (about 175), it crashed.

Tried it in groups and that worked perfectly. Thanks everyone, big help!