Installation: Vista 32-bit to Windows 7 64-bit

I put in irregular hours so it just seems like I have a real life

Ken

ratePV said:

Is it booting up now?

And yes there is a way to install windows 7 from usb(a bit complicated for some but...) here's the link:Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen Drive

Oh and i almost forgot:Welcome to Windows 7 forums!

I haven't tried yet but thanks for the suggestions It will be the first thing I do after school today

The USB-way didn't work for me, in the command prompt, when I did the "bootsect"-command, it just said that my version of windows wasn't compatible with the bootsect.exe or something.

Haha thanks, hopefully I don't have to spend too much time at the windows 7 problem solving forum :P

Axel

No, I tested with the old on, and I fixed so the CD/DVD drive was the first booting alternative, but it still didn't happen anything...
It just says: "Selected boot device not avalible - strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility"...

I have an empty DVD that I'm planning to burn a Windows 7 Build 7600 64-bit on, do you think that one will work better than a "Windows 7 64-bit Multi-language UP2DATE"?

Axel

Axzy said:

No, I tested with the old on, and I fixed so the CD/DVD drive was the first booting alternative, but it still didn't happen anything...
It just says: "Selected boot device not avalible - strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility"...

I have an empty DVD that I'm planning to burn a Windows 7 Build 7600 64-bit on, do you think that one will work better than a "Windows 7 64-bit Multi-language UP2DATE"?

Axel

Axel

"windows 7 64bit multi-language UP2date is not an OS. It is used to UPDATE. You need the win 7 64 bit ISO from microsoft.

Ken

ratePV said:

Didn't get that last bit...
You need to burn an official MSDN Windows 7 iso image...then adjust your bios first boot device DVD, second your primary hdd...
And remember BURN SLOWLY! (better a few minutes more burning than fixing issues for days!)
And check your BIOS setting for some additional boot options but dot touch them! Write them in a post so i can see them...

The one I downloaded and have tested with so far is a Windows 7 64-bit multi-language UP2DATE. That was the one that I didn't manage to boot from.

My question was if the one I've just downloaded, called "7600.16385.090713-1255_x64fre_client_en-us_Retail_Ultimate-GRMCULXFRER_EN_DVD", will work to boot from?

zigzag3143 said:

Axel

"windows 7 64bit multi-language UP2date is not an OS. It is used to UPDATE. You need the win 7 64 bit ISO frommicrosoft.

Ken

Are you sure it's not a whole OS? The file is 6GB big... It has to be a very big update in that case :P

Axzy said:

The one I downloaded and have tested with so far is a Windows 7 64-bit multi-language UP2DATE. That was the one that I didn't manage to boot from.

My question was if the one I've just downloaded, called "7600.16385.090713-1255_x64fre_client_en-us_Retail_Ultimate-GRMCULXFRER_EN_DVD", will work to boot from?



Are you sure it's not a whole OS? The file is 6GB big... It has to be a very big update in that case :P

You cant be getting these files from microsoft. win 7 32 bit is abt 2.5 gig, win 7 64 bit is abt 3. gig.

The name on the second file is correct but if you are not getting it from microsoft you are dealing with an unknown file system

Ken