Vista to 7 Upgrade failing right before 1st reboot

Ok, before or after I begin the win 7 setup? I'm reverting the partition back to the way it was sans the stupid recovery fartition.

Oh damn! After I did that, it messed up the partition, I have to repair the boot on vista.

Ok, I deleted all but C and D, D was where the setup was mounted. If this fails, I'll just create a USB installer from my flash drive.

I used this install disk twice to install windows 7 versions, it's practically new. But it was a cheap verbatim dual layer disk, maybe the 2nd layer is toast.

Ok, that did it. That's one damned obscure fix, it's going into my permanent fix file thanx!



DAMMIT!! Spoke too soon, it cancelled itself right after I posted that. I deleted drive d too, trying again.

If it rolled back to Vista, please post a screenshot of Disk Management - Post a Screen Capture Image.

Turn off all startups in msconfig>Startup and (after Hiding all MS Services) msconfig>Services., reboot and try again.

That's just the thing it didn't rollback it simply canceled right in the middle, so I think my original assessment of bad media might be correct. I'm creating a USB drive now.

Use the ISO for your licensed version along with tool to write it to stick from steps 1 and 2 of Reinstall tutorial below. That tut will also give you a perfect install if you're inclined.

I've got an AIO that I use, I just buy the license after I get it installed. Actually the activation on the vista has failed and so I got it rearmed with only 13 days remaining.

I used to Rufus to create the USB, when I try to use the USB maker from Microsoft it wants me to choose which version of Windows 7 I want to install and I don't want to do that. I want to be able to choose from the OS list, I don't want to have it already chosen.

It's going in right now if it fails again it means that there's something wrong with the Image. Because last night after I got it to go a little bit farther I had cleaned the Disk. But as I said, it was cheap verbatim dual layer disc that I got from RadioShack, they used to sell their own storebrand there but suddenly the don't make them anymore and they sell these crappy verbatim discs which are crap. I've used this thing only twice to install operating systems and it worked perfectly both times so this pisses me off, that I only get two uses out of a dual layer DVD, imagine if I had backed up an important movie on it? I'm going to gather up all the Disks I burned, I need to bring it back and try to get a refund.