Fresh installation of Windows 7 on an Acer laptop

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10. OK, took about 2 hours to run "clean all" with diskpart

But I still got the same error when trying to install Windows.

Something is going wrong when the install disk tries to set up the partitions. It's setting up two on Disk 0:
Volume 1 C System Rese NTFS Partition 100 MB Healthy
Volume 2 D _______________NTFS Partition 465 GB Healthy
(underlines are there to keep columns lined up) Neither volume shows anything under Info.

On my computer, the System Rese{rved} volume has no letter when I look at it with Disk Management. When I look at the boot disk with diskpart, it shows:
Volume 7 {no ltr} System Rese NTFS Partition 101 MB Healthy System
Volume 8 __C______________ NTFS Partition 931 GB Healthy Boot

So while the Windows 7 DVD is making the partitions, it does not seem to be creating the right kinds of partitions - unless that is supposed to be part of the installation and it is not making it that far.

Not sure what this means and I'm too tired tonight (at 2:30 AM) to try to figure out the commands in diskpart on the Microsoft page (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/300415) so I can try to fix it if it's possible with that tool.