i can't upgrade to Windows 7 64-bit. help!

[Rainerius]

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wala jud ko hilig anang upgrade. Its usually clean install para wala daghan complications. Suggestion lang based on my personal experiences

[AMD_infinium05]

do "clean install", RATHER than Upgrade.

[cesski]

omgeee....

i am trying to do a clean install. but it's looking for the driver for my ODD. the driver i have is for vista. i had no problems with this when i installed Win 7 RC.

[AMD_infinium05]

unsa diay imo Optical Drive?

[coolnezz]

was the Win7-RC 64-bit?
anyways... i can suggest a couple of possible solutions...
- do u have access to a spare ODD? use that one instead.
- go to BIOS and change IDE to ACHI or vice versa.
- u might need to make a Win7 USB Flash Drive boot install (4GB minimum)

[AMD_infinium05]

was the Win7-RC 64-bit?
anyways... i can suggest a couple of possible solutions...
- do u have access to a spare ODD? use that one instead.
- go to BIOS and change IDE to ACHI or vice versa.
- u might need to make a Win7 USB Flash Drive boot install (4GB minimum)

i rather go for the 3rd possible solution
faster and not prone for disk read error(s),

[cesski]

how do you do the third option?

[AMD_infinium05]

how do you do the third option?

you have to formate your usb first to make it active and bootable partition.
then copy the contents of the Windows 7 installer to the drive.

in some cases this doesnt work without proper configuration.

[Visual C#]

You either do the USB option (not recommended and not supported by M$), or try another optical disk drive. Try changing the BIOS options for your optical drive too (AHCI), though I strongly doubt that it'd work. I'm inclined to think your optical drive is just not compatible with 64 bit Win7? Perhaps a firmware upgrade would fix it?

[tangkoloy]

If you have been able to install Win 7 RC on your PC using that ODD without that error, then it could be that you have a damaged Win 7 DVD. Try to get another installer e.g. burn another DVD installer.