os installation

Last night I downloaded the new Windows 7 from the Microsoft site. Burned it to a disk. I was running Windows Vista Ultimate 32 Bit so I put the disk in picked the upgrade option... it did all the stuff its supposed to then restarted the computer and began to load the new windows... after it...

Problem: The windows doesn't boot. It gives me the first screen and goes directly to a blank black screen with a cursor. There are no options at this point but to hit ctrl-alt-del and restart the computer. After restarting, on the first screen, there's an option to enter BIOS setting by pressing...

I have W7 installed on my 'C' drive and I have a 'D' partition that I would like use for Vista. Can I just install Vista and point to the 'D' partition? Do I need to install Vista first?

I am currently running XP as my main OS on one partition but I also have Windows 7 Beta on a separate partition on the same hard drive. Right now I cannot currently access Windows 7 when booting up, I have no clue why that is as I used to be able to do that. What I want to do is delete the...

Is it possible to have an unattended o/s install of Windows 7 to install the o/s PLUS a bunch of software? Reason I'd like to try this is because I reinstall windows frequently during testing and spend 3 hours reinstalling all my software, which is very annoying.

I've ahd Windows XP installed for a long time but I wanted to give a try to Windows 7 so I did. I really like it so I decided to completely remove my XP beacause I wasn't using it anymore. I used Gparted to delete my XP partition and move/enlarge my Windows 7 one. Everything went fine this...

Hey everyone, just joined the forums as I just tried to install Windows 7. I used the word "tried" because I did not succeed in doing so... Background I was using Windows XP SP3 on a very old computer when I decided to try out Windows 7, just for fun. I knew the OS might be slower than XP, but...

I am having a very strange issue during the install. I recently got some new components. My old computer included 2 80GB drives in RAID-0 (SATA) for the OS and a 320GB for files. I decided to just split the two 80GB drives between two computers for the OS and put the 320GB in one for files and a...

Recently I've been running the 7beta and last night decided to switch back to vista for more functionality. I changed my boot order to CD/DVD first, HDD second, created a new RAID 0 array and then booted. Everytime it came to install the os I just got a strange clicking noise along with the...

Hi there, I have an MSI M677 laptop with 2GHz dual core AMD64 TL-60, 2GB ram, and GeForce 7600 agp. I went to reinstall my Vista HomePremium last night due to frequent shutdowns and BSOD(due to an nvidia driver, but I thought that agp driver alone cannot cause that many slowdowns in the...

Step by step tutorial. Took me about 6 minutes. Installs from a flash drive tend to take about 75% of the time it takes with a DVD. On my C2Q Q6600 it meant 20 mins instead of 29. This is for those who are having issues with running from a DVD, or just want to try it out/get it done faster...

Have just built new system:-phenom9950, m/b GA MA78GM-S2H,2g ram@800, Nvidia 9800gtx.Had vista premium 64 already installed.On boot, after verifying data got message "missing NTLDR". Tried fresh install. After formatting hdd & repartitioning, Vista said "unable to find suitable volume on which...

Guys, I have downloaded the offical 64bit windows 7 ultimate. The problem I am having is as follows: I have a c: partition with XP Professional I have created a d: partition formatted with NTFS. I have created a VMWARE client, and ran the dvd I created with the ISO I downloaded, and the...

My friend downloaded Microsoft SharedView from the Microsoft Connect website. He said after it installed it went to a black screen that stated either the hardware or software that was installed might not be working and that Windows will attempt to fix it. When it finished, it took him to a...

I'm planning to partition my current Hard Drive, yet this could be the first time to partition my currently use HD(yet I did pration before but before I install OS, yet this is my second reformated drive cuz by OS conflicts & I forgot to make two partitions). Yet I just want to know if it's...

I'm so frustrated... I've been scouring the Net for a solution to my problem, and couldn't find anything that applied to my problem, so I decided to beg for help here :rolleyes: Anyway, the problem is that every time that I boot Vista (Build 5600 RC1 x64), I get a low-res screen that plainly...