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That One Kid
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December 19th, 2009 13:00
Black Screen During Clean Install Using Upgrade DVD
Hi, I have Vista Home Premium 64-bit and I want to switch to Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. Dell supplied me with the Upgrade Assistant DVD and the Upgrade DVD with drivers.
I'd never upgraded OS before so I looked online for help and found this tutorial. When I got to the part where you select a partition, I found that I had 3 partitions: OEM reserved, recovery, and system. I deleted the recovery and OEM partition. The Recovery partitioned became an unallocated partition and the OEM one went away. Next, I formated the system partition. I clicked next and it did its thing. Then it restarted. Then it went back to the pick a partition 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.
Next, I tried repairing the computer with something I found on another forum. I restarted without the DVD afterward. After windows is starting screen, my monitor said it was going into powersave mode. Pressing the buttons on the side gave me a message that there is no singnal coming from the computer but my computer light was on.
I have no idea why this is happening and what i should do. Please help me.
You said in your orginal post that you formated the system partition which if you did deleted the Vista files and Operating system. I am not sure you really deleted the OEM partition as this is a ESIA partition that is really hard to get rid of and not worth the bother. When you boot into the install disk and get to the select the partition screen what does it show?
A normal Dell disk partition is set up like this, The OEM partition is first, then the recovery partition, then the system partition. Since the recovery is before the system unless you are using a 3rd party disk partitioning program you cannot recover this space
That One Kid
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Posted December 19th, 2009 14:00
Don't worry that is mentions vista as the steps work exactly the same for win 7. I have done this on both of my system and they run and activated just fine.
Hi Dave, I took a look at that link and tried to follow it but right away came across a problem. In Step 1, after this line, "click the Install Now button to trigger Vista Setup," I find that the rest of the steps aren't something i come across with my upgrade dvd. So, now I'm lost.
That One Kid
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Posted December 19th, 2009 14:00
When you boot into the install disk and get to the select the partition screen what does it show? I see two partitions. The first says Disk 0 Unallocated Space 15.1 GB. Second, Disk 0 Partition 1 916.4 GB Sysytem.
That One Kid
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Posted December 19th, 2009 14:00
Thank for your reply. I want to complete erase all of the Vista files. I want to start off with a fresh hard drive. Will those instructions from the link help me with this?
this is what you should do: http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dsn/en/document?docid=363609
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Posted December 19th, 2009 14:00
since you wiped out your Vista OS with the reformatting, and you are using an upgrade disk you need to follow the steps HERE to get the upgrade disk to do a clean install.Don't worry that is mentions vista as the steps work exactly the same for win 7. I have done this on both of my system and they run and activated just fine.
You cannot install a upgrade disk and have it activate as that is not a valid install. However by doing the double install trick you will be able to get an activated insta..