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Upgrading from Vista Home Premium to 7 Home premium

Started by Ricky_22 , Feb 02 2010 10:57 PM

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Ricky_22

Posted 18 February 2010 - 03:05 AM

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If you know the make of your new hdd, go to the manufacturers website and download their diagnostics program. Install it on either a floppy or cd-r and use that to boot the system with.

Let it run. It will tell you if there are problems with the hdd.

Murray

I found the diagnotic program, and d/l it to my hard drive, but it won't open/install there

Can I install it on a DVD-R, that's all the disks I have, I don't have a floppy drive at all.

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Murray S.

Posted 20 February 2010 - 08:03 PM

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A dvd would be fine. You will have to go into BIOS and change the boot order to boot from the dvd drive first. Put the diagnostic disk in and reboot the system.

Murray