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Greetings. I just bought Vista64 bit and im tryin to upgrade from XP SP3 to it. The cd wont autorun, and when i try to open the setup.exe it says, "Setup can not run on this version of the OS. To install Windows please try booting from the install media".
Now what i get from this is that since its 64bit it cant run on winxp, but im not sure. I do not have my orginal xp cd so i cant format the drive and the install vista cleanly. Is that what i need to get? I also tried running the CD from bootup in BIOS but it wont run it automatically. Disabled the HD's and just set the CD Rom as boot, still nothing.
Any suggestions? Thanks.
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Are you sure you have a fully 64 bit cpu and system?
"Best Practices", Event viewer, host file, perfmon, antivirus, anti-spyware, Live CD's, backups, are in my top 10
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yes. my cpu is an intel core 2 2.4ghz and says it works for a 64-bit computing and supports vista. thanks again
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So you've made sure that the CD/DVD drive preceeds the hard drive in the BIOS' boot sequence option?
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yes ive done that and also totally disbled the HDs as the bootup and it would just ask for a boot up media or HD and press any key. and when i am on the desktop it does read the CD but i cant run it or anything. it doesnt seem to read the CD at all on bootup.
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If this is an upgrade Vista x64 DVD, then I think you cannot install Vista x64 over XP x86. If it is a full DVD, then you must boot to the Vista DVD and start with clean install. You can format with Vista DVD.
If you cannot boot to the Vista DVD, then it must be an home-made DVD without boot attributes. It is non-bootable.
Regards
SuatCINI
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Hello Dylan , I think you should read this post from "Fat jonny" It could solve your problem , I think .
http://thevistaforums.com/index.php... . Or this one
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This a something I found whilst "surfin"
"You cannot perform an upgrade from a 32-bit version of Windows XP to a 64-bit version of Windows Vista. However, you can use an upgrade copy of Windows Vista to perform a clean installation of a 64-bit version of Windows Vista," Microsoft informs and goes on to day that users should "begin the installation by inserting the 64-bit Windows Vista DVD into your computer's disc drive, and then restart your computer. You must start the 64-bit Windows Vista installation from the Windows Vista 64-bit disc because Windows installation will not run on a 32-bit version of Windows."Please note "put the disc in and reboot"
incidently the vista disc is a DVD not a cd
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thanks for all the info guys. im kinda figuring out what i need to do. this is the exact copy i bougt of vista http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ... brand new. the only thing i can tell is that i guess this CD is not bootable which then my next question is, what the hell is it good for? lol. and yes, both my CD rom-s are cd/dvd RW and are able to read DVDs, which this CD is.
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I got it! Dont ask me why this worked, but i did a system restore to yesterday and rebooted, and then it said "press any key to boot from CD" so SUCCESS! got the installation working. after rebooting about 10 times yesterday this finally did it. So thanks for all your help...rock on :D GO seahawks!
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