dual booting vista32 and win7 64....

[rtdavide]

i created my partition and burned the iso file.....
DVD won't do anything from within vista 32, so i restarted and booted
from the DVD, it loaded some files and then stuck on a very nice
screen for 5 minutes. no activity from the DVD whatsoever. so i pulled
the DVD and restarted back into vista 32.

will i have to unplug the drive with the current OS until after I get
win7 loaded or did i just not wait long enough?
anyone else done this?

 

[Peter Foldes]

Did you convert the ISO file beforehand.

 

[John Barnett MVP]

There may be a problem with the DVD you actually burned. To be honest the
best way to burn the ISO is on a speed of around 2X to 4X anything higher
can cause problems. Having said that I must stress that the initial burn of
the ISO 'may' only be the problem no one can categorically say whether that
is the cause of the problem or not.

Before you try installing disconnect all USB/Firewire peripherals (printers,
Scanners, removable USB hard drives etc) with the 'exception' of your mouse
and keyboard. While I have no problems installing Windows 7 with every
peripheral still connected many people have had problems until they
disconnected all the peripherals. Incidentally Windows 7 currently isn't
keen on finger print readers so, if you have one of those, make sure you
unplug it. (You currently will not be able to install finger print readers
either - not even microsoft's own works as it should do)

To start the install you have to start your PC then quickly insert the DVD
into the DVD drive. I'm used to it, so yes I am 'quick'. Failing that boot
to Windows Vista then insert the DVD into your DVD drive and then restart
your PC.

After the initial BIOS details you should see a message that say 'press any
key to boot from DVD' At this point press any key and then you should see a
progress bar. The whit progress bar will progress from the left of the
screen to the right as Windows 7 copies files to memory. You already know
this but I'm repeating it so that you don't think you've missed anything.

The next screen that appears is a light blue screen with a few wavy lines
and a little white dove on the right. This, from your description, is were
you are having the problem. I've never had it stay on for 5 minutes, but it
does seem to stay for quite a while. Just let it sit there and see if it
finally continues with the installation. Don't be in a hurry. Some people,
me included, can load Windows 7 in around 20 minutes other have said it can
take up to an hour or more.

Once, or if, you get past the light blue screen an option will appear for
you to Install. Just click the Install button and then click 'Custom
(Recommended)'. From here you can direct the installation to the partition
you allocated for Windows 7.

If you still can't get past the light light blue screen, you might consider
downloading the ISO again and reburning it.


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[rtdavide]

i used an ISO program to burn it on to a DVD.... active ISO or
something like that. i didn't do anything else though....


the DVD IS actually working, it is just taking a long time. i decided
to wait for a few more minutes and the screens starting coming up. so
it's installing now.
another issue i had was that i was planning on installing this on a
partition i made on an external sata drive, but the sata drive isn't
recognized. i'm assuming the OS needs to load the drivers for the pci
card that links to the eSATA drive before it could see it and since
there isn't an OS that it can see just yet, it didn't see the
partition i wanted to put it on.
but i did have enough space to make a partition on another drive, so
i'm installing there for now.

 

[rtdavide]

writing this from within my new win7 x64 OS.
everything seems to be working great... it even found all my drivers
and installed the latest versions before i had to do anything.
the ONLY thing that doesn't seem to be working is my mustek scanner.
and i had some doubts that it would...
but everything else is running smoothly.

 

[Mark Levitski]

Installing is onky for select few users in WinVista.
If you insist on installing and being productive, goback to WinXP

 

[Mark Levitski]

iI agree Vista needs to be booted not once, but twice.