Vissta to W7 Upgrade...power loss

[zeke1312]

I purchased a PC during the Vista to W7 upgrade program. I decided to upgrade to W7 today. During the upgrade process, lost power to my home. The system of course lost power during the upgrade and now the PC never completes a boot when powered on. I've tried system recovery. I made recovery cd's after I bought the PC. How do I use them? Do I need to change to boot device from hd to cd? Powering on with recovery disk #1 doesn't work. Any suggestions? Thank you

 

[linkin]

You can do a full install with an upgrade disk.

1) insert the disk and reboot. boot from the disk. format your HDD and do a full install.

2) When prompted for CD key, ignore it and select your win7 version

3) when everything has installed you'll need to activate windows over the net/phone which is easy enough.

 

[ErikAlbert]

You certainly have to change the boot-sequence in BIOS :
1. CDROM
2. HARDDISK
During the restart, your Recovery CD/DVD will start automatically, doing its job.
I don't know about the rest. Think of your DATA also !!!

 

[zeke1312]

The long story short. I purchased the full version of Windows 7 and installed. Things are OK now. I think my problem(s) were the following. I added additional hard disk and a DVD player. When attempting to complete a restore using the mirror image on the hard disk, the image of Vista did not like to see those add ons and did not complete the install. The hang was just before the desktop display came on. There was no way the PC was going to allow me to reinstall Vista using the restore feature. Attempting to use my restore disks or any boot loader or mirror image did not work. Even when changing the boot device (CD instead of HD).

Anyhow my understanding is the Vista to W7 upgrade provided as part of the release last October was a version where you would need to reload Vista then upgrade once again to W7. I feel comfortable that I now have a way to cold start even if it "hurts".