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25-Oct-2009, 11:56 PM #1
Solved: Upgrade failure and more
While upgrading from Vista to 7, something went horribly wrong the minute I put the disk in the drive and everything just stopped responding. Now the computer won't boot.

I've put the drive in an enclosure and checked it on another machine. The drive is running. Everything is still there. I just can't get the computer to see it.

I'm thinking that it just doesn't know where to boot from. Does this sound right?

I've tried doing the "F8" thing and nothing happens. I can't use a restore disk because I was running a downloaded version of Vista. Am I screwed or is there a way out of this mess?

Is there a generic boot disk out there.

Please help.
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26-Oct-2009, 12:23 AM #2
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Is there a generic boot disk out there.
http://www.mediafire.com/?vnxn4yjtgyg 64 bit Vista

http://www.mediafire.com/?zzzmyi0mmzr 32 bit Vista

Burn the ISO file to CD as an image.
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26-Oct-2009, 02:55 AM #3
No lucky 7 here.
The boot disk didn't solve the problem.

I should have mentioned that the non working machine has a RAID configuration. I checked both of the disks on my other machine and the one designated as "0" doesn't appear to have a drive letter. There's just a disk symbol and a red "?". I'm thinking that something happened during the install process that erased the drive letter. Is that possible? If so, what are my options since I can't get in to tell it to boot from the other one?
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