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Having a weird issue when booting from CD.
Hello,
you guys must feel exhausted of all the double work with the tons of windows 7 questions that keep flooding these forums. I however will (unfortunatly) be no difference. I have as well bumped into an issue.
So, I recently bought the Windows 7 Home Edition Upgrade. It came nicely with both 32bit and 64bit discs as expected. Since I "upgrade" (read clean install) from a windows XP 32bit OS I decided to go with the 32 bit version. However, after doing some reading I saw the 64 bit would be the better option if your hardware could handle it.
I downloaded this handy tool called SecureAble and it told me my PC could handle a 64 bit OS.
I think I'm going a bit overboard on the extra info here, but just want to make sure you guys see I've done all steps necesarry.
I read that when you want to install the 64 bit version over the 32 bit version you need to do a clean install. Since I recently done one and haven't spent hours yet in configuring my PC I defenatly did not mind this and went for it. I hopped into my BIOS and enabled CDROM as the first boot tool to use. I restart with the 64bit DVD in the DVD station, I hit a key when it asks if I want to boot from CD. Then it takes me to a few loading screens so I start smirking "Ah yes, finally something that goes smooth" yet then I see a colorfull windows background image but nothing moves at all. It just sits there. I see my mouse pointer without any "busy" signs or anything, nor does my DVD drive gives me any busy-lights or does my processor seems to be working on anything.
Does this sound consistant with a known issue? Is there some option I need to change in my BIOS? Or does it mean my PC just wont take any 64bit version?
Any help or suggestion would be welcome, and I already thank everyone of you wholeheartedly beforehand!
Best regards,
Sven.