Win7 on HP DV9000

[red onion]

Hi,
I was trying to install WIN 7 on a HP DV9000 that just had a motherboard transplant. 7 refused to install, saying that I was missing drivers for the CD/DVD. I tried the Vista drivers that were on a flash drive, but none worked. I tried both 64 and 32 bit versions. Nothing worked. Win XP-32 went on no problem, or need for drivers. But the soundcard refused to install.
I was able to re-activate the hidden restore partition, and re-image the factory install of Vista. It now runs fine....but I was just curious as to why 7 would not install and XP would. I am just a little embarrassed that I could not put 7 on there Does anyone know why WIN 7 would balk at a CD driver when XP did just fine?

 

[wolfeking]

It sounds like to me that your disk of 7 is damaged.

 

[red onion]

Tried two different disks, 1 32 bit and one 64 bit.

 

[wolfeking]

okay, just to be sure, its a legal copy from microsoft, right?

 

[red onion]

Technet subscription

 

[wolfeking]

okay. then I have no clue what it is.

Have you tried running it as an upgrade disk from within Windows Vista? It has to be the same bit as your vista going that way though.