I am trying to upgrade HP Pavilion dv9000 laptop running Vista Home Premium. We purchased the OS and downloaded it to her desktop. When trying to run the installer (as administrator) it comes up with a box titled "Unloading the box" with a progress line. The progress barely gets started and just sits there at "Preparing:C;\Users\Mary\Desktop\Windows 7\expandedSetup\Win7Setup.wim".
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I have a Netbook brand "emachines" em350 created by Acer
Model Number: NAV 51
32-bit OS
1.66 Ghz
Running Windows 7 SP1
160 gb of HHD
Intel Atom
10.1 LED LCD
1 gb of RAM
and 6 Cell of Li-ion battery
I had windows vista 32 bit earlier. Then I got windows 7 professional upgrade in trial period. I didn't notice how it happened. Of course it must be my mistake. Now when i boot from windows 7 it shows 64 bit and in vista it shows 32 bit. The system asks before booting which one to choose. It's today only that I have installed but I am not facing any problem as such except that i need a product key within 30 days. Should i leave as it is or uninstall vista somehow. Would i be able to reboot my system using the 32 bit vista CD?
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Fine. After everything was installed, I used Disk Cleanup to delete that folder, and the space was recovered on my partition
But when booting into Windows 7, I get a boot menu that seems to indicate Vista is still there.
So my question is, can I simply delete Entry 2? Or is there other remaining stuff from Vista still on my drive somewhere that I should also delete? What is the drive "Active Boot Partition"?
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I downloaded "DLMWin7HP64US" and when i got to install it, I get this error:
"The application cannot find one of its required files, possibly because it was unable to create it in the folder. Please make sure that the folder in which this application was downloaded is accessible and not read-only."
I downloaded and am installing it from my desktop. I have also tried running it as administrator and it doesn't work.
Any ideas?
Ive been getting bsod`s so i did a sys restore but my system is taking almost an hour to load desktop and the cpu ram metre in the side bar is showing that my ram is running at 98% and not dropping which is why everything is taking an eternity to load. I have 4GB GSkill DDR3 1000mhz.
The stop code for the bsod is 0x00000074
At one point i couldnt boot without running into a bsod so i did a system restore and i find that it boots to the main blue boot screen normally but them slows right down at that point.
I can boot into safe mode which is working normally (a good sign i hope) so i think and hope it is just a corrupt file or virus or some such, in fact i think the bsod code at the top of the page mentioned something about system config problem.
So i need to unload this ram asap and sort this problem out.
Any suggestions ?
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