Okay, here's the deal... I have a Vista machine, it had one hard drive and I added another, specifically for installing Windows 7. I excitedly downloaded and burned the Windows 7 32-bit ISO and tried to install it, all was fine. So, I have one...
Okay, here's the deal...
I have a Vista machine, it had one hard drive and I added another, specifically for installing Windows 7. I excitedly downloaded and burned the Windows 7 32-bit ISO and tried to install it, all was fine.
So, I have one hard drive for Vista and one for Windows 7; both 120GB.
2 hours later the Windows 7 installation is at the "Completing Installation" mark and it needs to restart, okay fine. It restarts. Upon restart it showed the Windows 7 boot screen, "Starting Windows" it said! Then it restarted.
I figured it was normal, so I left it. For the next hour or so it kept repeating that, I never saw passed the Windows 7 boot screen. I tried to reinstall it, but nothing.
I figured I just give up and go back to Vista because it was taking too much time. So I removed the hard drive that I tried to install Windows 7 on and guess what? I can't get back into Vista! My computer is still trying to boot Windows 7, only now it gives me an error saying that it could find "winload.exe"
Great. How do I get my computer to boot Vista again? I tried to pop in the Vista installation and repair it, it shows up on the "Loading Drivers" screen, so I know it's there still. What's more interesting is that two instances of Windows 7 are listed in the "Loading Drivers" screen. They each have a 0MB partition.
So yeah, help would be perfect!
And yeah, I've tried the boot menu to tell my computer boot from a certain hard drive, but it still tries to go after Windows 7. Something tells me that it's still trying to finish the install.
Thanks in advanced.