[BlasterNT]

Upgrading from Windows Vista to Windows 7 RTM

Okay, so I accidentally hit the power bar switch as in place upgrade rollback started.

When I rebooted, it came up with a few * is corrupt, rollback cannot continue messages, and then was greeted with a command prompt window.

Then, I inserted the Windows 7 install disc and chose "Repair Your Computer". It said it was fixing some hard disc errors.

I tried to boot into the rollback again-no luck, just a command prompt window.

The corrupted data wasnt very important, just some YouTube videos.

Is there anyway to manually start rollback? Please help!

Thanks,
BlasterNT

[ChuckE]

Why bother? The Win7 RTM (if it is the Release To Manufacturing) would only be functional for the next month or two, anyway. Just bite the bullet and get a real Win7 commercial version.

When you go to install that, it should search your hard drive(s) and tell you what volumes you have and ask what you want to keep.

[BlasterNT]

Sorry, by RTM, I meant the commercial version. I've always referred to "just-released, no service pack" versions of Windows as RTM.

Yeah, I think I'm going to have to do a clean install. I did some searching around this site, and apparently the rollback system deletes some critical files after a rollback fails. Really annoying

[ChuckE]

There is a task that you can run to possibly scan and repair all your Windows protected system files.

Open up a Command Prompt window with Administrator rights (use the right mouse button over the "Command Prompt" in your Start menu.
In that Command Prompt type: sfc /scannow

That process will take 5 to 15 minutes to scan and verify, with possible repairs done to damaged system files.

If you enter sfc /verifyonly
then the systems files will be checked and no repairs are done.