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Screen goes black
Hi, I was trying to do clean install windows 7 with an upgrade dvd from dell.
I have Vista Home Premium 64-bit and I'm trying to upgrade to Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. I've never done anything like this before so I used the tutorials on this very helpful site. When I get to step #8 on the tutorial, I saw that I had 3 partitions: OEM reserved, recovery, and system. I deleted the recovery partition and then formated the system one. I clicked next and it did its thing. Then it restarted. I didn't see the screen from step #10, however. I saw a screen that said "setup updating registery settings" and "setup is starting." Then it went back to the #9 screen. It said it was "completing installation" and the green bar was under the word "during", from the sentence above. Then I got a black screen for 2 minutes, the computer resarted and I got another black screen after "the press any key." This one was on for 25 minutes. I got fed up and just restarted. Now I'm back on the #8 screen. I do not know what to do. Please help.