Vista 64 won't boot over Vista 32.

Gepetto

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I probably just need some very basic advice, so I'm apologising in advance in case I'm being too stupid for words!!! :o:D

Having read through some of the posts on here, and having tried repeatedly to get my new copy of Vista 64 to load, I'm now at a loss. I bought a used PC with Vista 32 Ultimate already loaded (but not activated) and have now rebuilt the PC in a new case and I want to load the Vista 64 I bought from Overclockers. It will not boot up automatically and even going into the setup and setting "Boot from" to CD Rom it still will not load. Nada , zilch , nuffink. Simply goes straight into the 32 Ultimate. Time after time!

Am I doing something wrong? :confused:
 
Maybe the disk is defective, could be it's not being read properly? Do you have any other machines you can just try it in to see if it gets read at boot time?
 
That would suggest you need to do it from windows.
You dont need to activate windows to do this, you have a few days grace.
 
Assuming you have it set correctly to boot from CD within the bios there is one other possibility I can think of, if you have an existing OS on the hard drive most bios will prompt you to press any key (within about 5 seconds) to boot from cd (even if already set in bios) and failure to do so causes it to boot from the OS on the hard drive, so if you have a bios splash screen you may not see this prompt. Simply disable this splash screen to be able to see the prompt.
 
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atpbx said:
That would suggest you need to do it from windows.
You dont need to activate windows to do this, you have a few days grace.
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Thanks guys. I've tried installing whilst running Windows, but it comes up with "Setup cannot run on this operating system. Please try booting from the install media."
 
hegemon said:
Assuming you have it set correctly to boot from CD within the bios there is one other possibility I can think of, if you have an existing OS on the hard drive most bios will prompt you to press any key (within about 5 seconds) to boot from cd (even if already set in bios) and failure to do so causes it to boot from the OS on the hard drive, so if you have a bios splash screen you may not see this prompt. Simply disable this splash screen to be able to see the prompt.
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Thanks Hegemon. I am getting the "boot from CD - press any key" message but it is not working! No matter which "any key" I hit. :confused:
 
Have you tried a different Windows CD/DVD to establish if it's a problem with the media or your hardware/configuration?
 
Gepetto said:
Thanks guys. I've tried installing whilst running Windows, but it comes up with "Setup cannot run on this operating system. Please try booting from the install media."
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I found this recently when going from Vista 32bit to 64bit on my laptop, it won't let you start the 64bit install as it's not valid Win32 code..
 
Gepetto said:
Ahhh. That's possibly the prob. How did you get around it?
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Burned the ISO to a DVD and installed that way, I got the ISO from my MSDN Subscription.. is there any way you can test your installation media, it does sound like it may be a bit faulty if you can't boot to it?
 
Gepetto said:
Thanks Hegemon. I am getting the "boot from CD - press any key" message but it is not working! No matter which "any key" I hit. :confused:
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Long shot, but... using a USB keyboard? Go into the BIOS and make sure all the USB keyboard options are enabled. It might just not be detecting your key presses.
 
Mattus said:
Long shot, but... using a USB keyboard? Go into the BIOS and make sure all the USB keyboard options are enabled. It might just not be detecting your key presses.
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This is what I'd've bet on. If the board's old enough, it might not work. Try looking for an option in the bios re USB keyboards. If it doesn't work/can't find it, then you're going to have to find a PS/2 keyboard.
 
Yep I agree. Note that on my bios it's referred to as "legacy USB", and doesn't mention keyboards per se. You want to enable it, whatever it's called - should work a charm then :)
 
Rainmaker said:
Yep I agree. Note that on my bios it's referred to as "legacy USB", and doesn't mention keyboards per se. You want to enable it, whatever it's called - should work a charm then :)
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Bear in mind even this didn't work one an older ABIT board I had before my current workstation. Luckily I've still got PS/2 keyboard, but you may just need to get an el-cheapo £4 PS/2 jobby from somewhere to do the install, and then use the USB keybord in windows etc.

Strange though, as from what you've said, it seems to work OK in the BIOS? :confused:
 
Thanks for the heads up on the keyboard guys.

I went into setup and changed the keyboard to use the bios as opposed to the OS, and when I got the press any key to boot from the CD/DVD it did at least try. PC came up with "Windows Files Loading" and then ...........diddly.:confused:
 
Gepetto said:
Thanks for the heads up on the keyboard guys.

I went into setup and changed the keyboard to use the bios as opposed to the OS, and when I got the press any key to boot from the CD/DVD it did at least try. PC came up with "Windows Files Loading" and then ...........diddly.:confused:
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There's another thread on this - turned out that if you waited 10mins it'll carry on. Probably caused by a driver not loading for something - often caused by floppy drives, apparently.
 
Turning off the floppy disk support in the BIOS did fix a boot from windows disk problem that i (and someone else had) with an ASUS p5q mobo. Its worth a try.
 
csmager said:
There's another thread on this - turned out that if you waited 10mins it'll carry on. Probably caused by a driver not loading for something - often caused by floppy drives, apparently.
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Thanks for all the help guys! :D Most appreciated.

Done and dusted. Waiting did it! Patience is obviously a virtue I need to develop. :o :D
 
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