Broken vista to windows 7

Discussion in 'Software' started by Emilyev, Aug 19, 2010.

  1. Emilyev

    Emilyev Private E-2

    I have a laptop with vista on it
    something died on it now its a blank screen and then I restart it and it cycles the boot process right after the dell logo and restarts and does it again
    same result in safemode
    Can I buy windows 7 and put the disk in and and let it install and not loose data?
     
    Emilyev, Aug 19, 2010
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  2. JonBoyFishhead

    JonBoyFishhead Private First Class

    if you have your vista disk, you can try to boot to it and repair the OS files. when you boot to the vista disk choose the repair option, then select 1. then at the prompt type: chkdisk c: /r
    this should allow you to log in to windows
     
    JonBoyFishhead, Aug 20, 2010
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  3. Emilyev

    Emilyev Private E-2

    no vista disk available
    would a 7 installation replace the broken startup files?
     
    Emilyev, Aug 20, 2010
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  4. Emilyev

    Emilyev Private E-2

    I have another question
    I have xp64 on another system I am thinking of moving it 7 also
    could I use a mountinr program to mount the image and install that way?
     
    Emilyev, Aug 20, 2010
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  5. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Hi
    No sadly Windows 7 is a different OS version so will not fix your Vista, plus I would not myself advise an upgrade install of Win7 over Vista until you fix Vista or maybe using a Linux live CD recover any important files you have and then clean install Win7, but this will mean you have to install your favoured apps again (so make sure yiu gave the media and any licence keys needed)

    Also just as a point if vista is 32bit then you can only upgrade (to preserve your files and apps) with 32but Win7 you can only migrate to 64bit from a 64bit Vista or clean install.

    can you not borrow a Vista dvd off a friend who may have it and try a repair.
     
    DavidGP, Aug 20, 2010
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  6. Emilyev

    Emilyev Private E-2

    the 64 bit system is a desktop
    the broken vista system is a laptop

    so yer saying i need to repair the vista installation on the laptop before I upgrade to 7? I can do that following the previous post's intructions

    now i have a working xp 64 installation on my desktop I want to go to 7 64 bit if possible Can I upgrade to 7 if i meet the requirements?
     
    Emilyev, Aug 20, 2010
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