I had Vista on one of my laptops, and recently installed Windows 7. I had to do a custom install, because a straight upgrade was not an option due to the software versions. It seemed to have installed correctly, however now I cannot install any additional software due to space issues. D: indicates that it is full, so I redirected the software install to C:, but still getting space errors. C: shows 62GB available, so I am very puzzled as to why I am getting errors indicating that not enough space is available. What can/should I do to solve this? Thanks!
Typically, D drive on a laptop is your recovery partition.
When you say you did a custom install, did you do a clean install? Did you format your C drive and then install it on an empty C drive?
You should have been able to do an upgrade from Vista, unless you were going from 32bit to 64bit, then it is best to delete the existing partition and create a new partition from the available space and format it (back up first of course).
Please give more details as to the upgrade method, and what is on your C & D drives. If you have a recovery partition, it is best to leave it alone until after you have Windows up and running exactly as you like it (drivers and all) and create a recovery DVD. Then if you like, you can recover the disc space by deleting and expanding an existing partition or creating a new one.You have to be a little bit crazy to keep you from going insane.
If all else fails, read instructions.
what if no drivers are working??? I installed win.7 but did not get any drivers, don´t ask why...
now I can´t connect to the internet so I I can´t download this Driver Whiz's to update all the drivers. :(
I tried to download them and copy to usb key and install them that way but no success.
It would be nice to get help here...
Best regards HP
spjallari start you own thread please. That's how we do it around here.
I did not format my C: drive before the Windows 7 install, was that something I should have done? Windows Vista Home Premium cannot be simply upgraded to Windows 7 Professional. (both 32 bit) You have to choose the Custom Installation option which does not save any of your program files, documents or settings, and that is what I did. I did nothing at all with partitioning. Now my C: drive shows 62 GB free space but D: drive is completely full. I tried to install Microsoft Office which requires about 130 MB, and chose C: as the destination, but it keeps failing with an error that says that there is not enough space available. Should I have done something with partitioning?
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