Installation Restart Loop After ' Upgrade Unsuccessful '
Ok, went to install the beta. First time I chose, upgrade existing windows (vista SP1). It all seems to go fine, gets to the last stage of the install process, reboots one final time, then on the startup it gets past the windows logo, and says 'starting services' etc. etc., but then I get a message that the upgrade was unsuccessful and its restoring my previous version of windows. It says do not restart the computer during this time, but the green progress bar only gets about 3/5 done and the computer reboots itself. Then it does the same exact thing, over and over.
I then booted from the install CD again, and this time chose to install a new version of windows on top of the old one (says it will put the old files in windows.old). so it goes through the install operation again, everything seems fine, but when it should finally boot into the new windows, i get a message that there was some problem on startup and that I should restart my system. Except it comes back to the same message no matter how many times I restart.I'm at the point where I'd be willing to just format the drive and try again with a clean install, but I'm wondering if anyone has insight as to what is causing the problem and how I might be able to fix it.
Also, before trying the 'new installation' option, I tried the reapir computer option in the install program. That comes up with 2 installations of windows -- Windows 7, and a 'windows rollback setup' or something like that. I tried doing startup repair on both of them -- windows7 one says it repaired it, the rollback one says it couldn't repair it.Â
None of that solves it (obviously). Also, I tried going to command prompt, but that comes up as under the X: drive (which I never had), with various windows looking directories (Program Files, Windows, etc.), but tying to do a 'cd C:' just brings me back to X:.So... any ideas?
View Replies (Posted: Sunday, January 11, 2009 2:25 PM)
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