Installing Windows 7 over Vista?

[yhelothar]

I'm trying to clean install windows 7 64bit over my vista 32bit.
I boot from the win7 dvd and select custom install.
I select the drive that my vista is installed on.
It says it'll rename vista to windows.old and begins copying/extracting the files.
It finishes and reboots.
I have my computer boot up from the drive I'm trying to install win7 on.
It seems like it's trying to boot into vista still, but it says the files are damaged.

It won't load the setup files for win7, but just tries to load the defunct vista.

I reboot and boot from CD again. This time it shows that there's an extra partition created on the main system drive. Maybe it needs to boot up from the extra partition instead of the main partition. My BIOS only lets me boot up from a drive I select though, and not a partition in a drive.

So how do I get this to work?

 

[PurdueRy]

Why not format the drive during the install?

 

[yhelothar]

Originally posted by: PurdueRy
Why not format the drive during the install?

I have about 700gigs of stuff on it.
I never format.

Anyways, UPDATE:
I got it to boot from the installation. Oddly it boots if I tell my comp to boot from CD, and after it loaded the files, it'll give the option to press any key to boot from dvd,cd. If i don't push anything, it'll boot properly.

Then it booted fine to finish installing windows 7 and started up from it for the first time using the same method.

But now booting from the CD would just boot from the CD, and booting from my windows hard drive would only show me the error again.

I'm getting an error that says:

> File: \windows\system32\winload.exe
> Status: 0xc000428
> Info: Windows cannot verify the digital signature for this file.

 

[yhelothar]

I tried running the repair on the win7 disk. I also tried going into CMD and running bootrec /fixmbr and bootrec /rebuildbcd
It doesn't do anything.

 

[PurdueRy]

Originally posted by: astroidea
I tried running the repair on the win7 disk. I also tried going into CMD and running bootrec /fixmbr and bootrec /rebuildbcd
It doesn't do anything.

sounds like a boot issue...you can look into easyBCD. You might be able to better configure your boot with it.

 

[yhelothar]

That program looks great!
But how could I run it given that I can't get into windows? It doesn't appear to be bootable.

 

[PurdueRy]

Originally posted by: astroidea
That program looks great!
But how could I run it given that I can't get into windows? It doesn't appear to be bootable.

I'm a little confused by your previous posts... were you able to get into windows vista by reinstalling?

 

[KeypoX]

how many harddrives do you have? Are you srue bios is set to boot off right harddrive?

 

[yhelothar]

Originally posted by: PurdueRy

Originally posted by: astroidea
That program looks great!
But how could I run it given that I can't get into windows? It doesn't appear to be bootable.

I'm a little confused by your previous posts... were you able to get into windows vista by reinstalling?

I could reinstall vista, but I'm currently trying to ditch the vista that I had installed and used for years to move to win7.

 

[yhelothar]

Originally posted by: KeypoX
how many harddrives do you have? Are you srue bios is set to boot off right harddrive?

3 + raid0, absolutely.

 

[PurdueRy]

Could you install windows to any of the other hard drives? Either that or erase only the windows folders from the one you are installing to?