Windows 7 won't boot after format and clean install

My spouses pc all of a sudden wouldn't boot, not into safe mode or anything (vista), and so we were going to upgrade anyways to windows 7, so i bought the upgrade windows 7 and attempted to do a clean install and reformatted the c: drive which has 250gb, and each time i start the install it bogs...

hey, There's posts on this, but i need personal response. my hard-drive is a complete mess in my opinion, and i want to just re-do everything. so, 1- how do i format my hard-drive. 2- can i just insert the CD/DVD into my drive, will it install.

Ok i have 2 hard drives on my pc (C: and D: ) my main hard drive with all the settings and program files is C:. so if i use clean install windows 7 will i still be able to keep my D: drive without anything being deleted off it?? Thanks

i forgot to format during the clean install. i really wanted to since i have a lot of games i dont play anymore. i can see that windows.old exists in c drive. i dont want to reinstall, but i want the files to be as small as possible. would they be a lot smaller if i formatted? i have something...

Hi I currently have vista 32bit, and have win7 upgrade disc soon will do a clean instal of win7 64 once i have finished backin up my files. Once i have i will be doing the install which should be in the next 2 days. My main drive has 2 partitions. C, which has the vista OS on it, a few other...