HP Laptop upgrade from Vista - 4 frustrating failures!!

Diskmap coming shortly I hope

You must have missed that I found a workaround to run CMD as Admininstrator from the Task Manager run box.

You deleted C Vista and recovery earlier in Partition Wizard, right?

Did you overwrite the Win7 in F: with your new install? When it showed you the drives where you could Custom install Win7, did you choose F? Did you Format the drive before install?

Before I installed dual boot I reduced C drive to give me space to create F drive where I installed Windows 7. Then after backing up a few essentials. I booted into partition wizard from the DVD and removed the C drive and the D drive partitions as instructed and resized the F partition(Win7). Then I booted from the W7 Install DVD and when it said it had found aa problem with the startup I let it make repairs i went into the install DVD 3 times as instructed and ran startup repair a further 3 times but no erroros were found. I rebooted to windows and got the blue screen.

Now I have used the backup made with Win7 to restore the F partition. I again booted the Win7DVD but this time when it found the first startup error I elected not to correct it but to proceed to the menu and let manually select start up repair. I ran this once and on the restart it went staright to win 7. Giving the situation as you see on the attached map. I now need to get rid of the unnecessary partitions and expaand Win7 partition.

Many thanks for all your patience (& SIW2) I am really greatful for your assistance.

Sorry forgot to say that dual boot disappeared after restoring the Win7 partition and running 'Startup Repair' from install DVD.

also C drive is currently active partition not F

So you now have Win7 reimaged from your Win7 backup image, and not the clean install you did earlier tonight?

Why is Win7 only 11 gigs then?

I am studying it

jecook said:

also C drive is currently active partition not F

I do not see this on screenshot.

I see F: Wndows 7 has Active System boot.

C and D are ready to be deleted, Win7 Resized into the space, or repartitioned as you desire using PW.

Then boot into Win7 DVD and run Startup Repair 3 times.

Suggest you enable Adminstrative account before you do these operations so you can run the CMD as Administrator to run E:setup.exe to do a repair install to reset activation: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windo...windows-vista/

Last resort would be to boot DVD but this time, use Custom>Drive options to delete all, create New Partition(s), and Format before installing to first partition.

I have just checked with Paragon B & R and that reports C drive as inactive and F drive as active but both disk management show the drives as containing data when explorer shows them as empty so I guess the drive volume data needs to be fixed am slightly worried as to what might happen if I delete C and D as this was the precursor to all the other issues.

What is Paragon B&R? Look at the Disk Management map. It doesn't make mistakes. C: and D: are EMPTY. All that's left are some shells.

F:Win7 drive is clearly marked System Active Boot so there is no worry about deleting the others and resizing into their space.

Then boot into Windows 7 DVD and run Startup Repair 3 times.

Suggest you enable Adminstrative account before you do these operations so if it bluescreens again you can run as Administrator E:setup.exe to do a repair install to reset activation: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windo...windows-vista/

Last resort would be to clean install from DVD but this time use Custom>Drive Options to delete all, create New Partition(s), and Format before installing to first partition.

Sorry have just checked, right clicking on C has option to make Active (so must be inactive) on F Mark as Active is greyed out so presumably is active and D has option to make active so clearly F is the only active partition. Only the Disk Usage info is incorrect.

No idea why windows 7 is small although I have not installed Media player or much additional software