Go into your Bios and make sure that your DVD is the first boot option. Put your Win 7 DVD in the drive and power down. When you boot it should go to the Win DVD. There isn't much need to worry about Win 7 drivers. Between the Win 7 disk and Windows Update, you will get just about all of them.
haha you won't believe this,
i reinstalled vista, seems to have gone fine. it should be just like when i bought it, but al my programs naturally are not on there etc.
however, like I expected, it still won't allow me to boot from the Windows 7 upgrade Media dvd: after it asks me to press any button to boot from dvd, it goes on to start up windows Vista anyway
So i call back to acer, make me explain the whole thing again, she asks me to hold an a moment, 10 minutes later i get automaticaly rerouted to the main menu where the nice automatic voice tells me they're closed for the day...
The guy said something in my first call about the disk probably not being bootable, anyone know something about this, from what I've read so far I should be able to do a clean install from the upgrade dvd. And since my model (according to acer themselves) requires a clean install, I would expect it to work
bigmck, I tried that, both when windows 7 was on, and now that vista is on. after doing that it asks me to press any button to boot from disk, but whatever i press it will go on to start up as normal
Is this a puchased DVD from MS, a studen tversion, oe an OEM version?
I have a manufacture installed version of Vista that came on the computer, no disk (made my own back up which came in quite handy just now).
Acer sent me two cds
- Microsoft Windows 7 Upgrade Media (also has acer logo on it, don't know if that says anything)
- Acer Upgrade dvd (contains upgrade wizared, and applications drivers for windows 7)
That's bad new, I call tech support and have them mail you a replacement.
called acer again yesterday, they were going to forward the problem to the part of the company that deals with windows 7 issues, and they'll contact me again (probably in a few days) till then i have my vista working perfectly, so that's ok.
I'll let you all know how it turns out, thanks for the help up till now
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