Dell Laptop - New Windows 7 64 bit SP1 Install Hangs

I did an install of Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit SP1 on a Dell Inspiron 1720 Laptop which had a non-booting Windows Vista Home Premium 64 Bit installed on it. I deleted all of the existing Dell hard drive partitions (using a bootable partition management software) before attempting to install Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit SP1.

It was really strange. The installation of Windows 7 would periodically seem to stop for several minutes. Each time I would tap on the space bar a few times causing it to start again. A single tap on the space bar would not get it going again. The restart hangs until I press the space bar a few times and Windows hangs a couple of times before it finally get loaded. All hangs require pressing the space bar to get it going again. Once Windows 7 is loaded it seems to work fine. It does the same thing on Windows Shutdown. It does the same thing on a Windows 7 start.

What do you make of this? Hardware issues? Any ideas on where to go from here?

Note: No Windows updates have been performed and Windows 7 has not yet been connected to the Web.

Thanks in Advance.

 

TheKid7,

Any idea why Vista wasn't booting?

 

I was going to try to do a Restore from the Restore Partition but the Restore Menu entry was missing.

I looked at the laptop a while back and started this Thread:

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=349161

The Laptop's Touchpad will not work. Could a Touchpad failure be contributing to the problem? I could not find a way in the BIOS to turn off the Touchpad. I am now using a USB Mouse.

 

Did you check the HD with the HD Manufacturer's diagnostic CD?

F2 should get you into the Dell BIOS.

 

Yes. No problems were detected.

I also had run Dell Diagnostics (before deleting the partitions) with no problems being detected.

I looked around in the BIOS and did not see anything that appeared unusual. I could not find the Touchpad in the BIOS.

Windows 7 does show one device with no drivers. I assume that device is the Touchpad, but I am not sure.