Synaptics touchpad driver fails to install.

Hi,
I have a HP Pavillion Dv7 t6100 series. I'm fairly proficient on computers (as I am an electrical and computer engineer) but I'm having some trouble resolving this problem:
My computer came with synaptics version 15 pre-installed, and a windows 7 OS. Since then I have upgraded to windows 8.1, and synaptics version 16.2 without any issues.
I recently saw that synaptics version 17 was released, so I went ahead and uninstalled synaptics 16.2 and rebooted my computer. After that I tried to install version 17 multiple times, and I get an error that says the "Install Failed" with no other useful information.
To trouble shoot I have turned off the Windows feature that checks for driver signing (which is now turned back on), and I have tried installing previous versions of synaptics drivers (like 15.2) and they now all return an "Install Failed" error.
Nothing has worked so far. Any ideas?
Tyler

Ok I fixed it formatting Windows 7.

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>One interesting thing I noticed however, is the fact that when I roll back the driver (in the Hardware properties- then settings) the gestures work FINE. However, as it always asks you to restart the computer in order for the Rolling back of the driver to take place, when I do restart it, it sets the Microsoft touchpad driver from 2006; which does not include the gestures I need.
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