Stuck halfway through upgrade....

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indianacarnie

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I'm posting this here because I'm on Vista home Premium x64 as I write this. It seems that I have corrupted files in my Vista recovery partition. Am halfway through an up-grade to Win7 and my optical drive is not working. (Device Manager says all is fine/all drivers are up to date) So..... My question is.... Is there any way to get replacements of the corrupted files without recovery disc's? (Forgotten in a Motel room 3 months ago):mad::sick::cry:
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Toshiba A505D-6858
    CPU
    AMD Turion x2
    Motherboard
    Insyde H2o
    Memory
    4 gb
Hello!

I usually deal with these sorts of issues, but am slightly failing to understand your question! Please bear with me!

Normally, for files, we run SFC:

Right, please run steps 1, 2A, 3 (about 15 minutes), 4, 5, and then Step 1 from the top yellow box, but only follow this last one if Integrity Violations were found. Please upload the new sfcdetails.txt from your Desktop. System Files - SFC Command

When it fails, I source the files.

However, is this quite your issue!?

Has the upgrade failed, and you are in a unbootable perpetual loop? Are you then trying to restore to factory defaults, and that is what is corrupt.

Is it something relating to Windows Updates, and so SFC is not quite the right tool?

Thanks!

Richard
 

My Computer

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    Dell XPS 420
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    Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 2.50GHz
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    Stock Dell 0TP406
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    4 gb (DDR2 800) 400MHz
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    ATI Radeon HD 3870 (512 MBytes)
    Sound Card
    Onboard
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    1 x Dell 2007FP and 1 x (old) Sonic flat screen
    Screen Resolution
    1600 x 1200 and 1280 x 1204
    Hard Drives
    1 x 640Gb (SATA 300) Western Digital: WDC WD6400AAKS-75A7B0 1 x 1Tb (SATA 600) Western Digital: Caviar Black, SATA 6GB/S, 64Mb cache, 8ms Western Digital: WDC WD1002FAEX-00Z3A0 ATA Device
    PSU
    Stock PSU - 375W
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    Dell XPS 420
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    Stock Fan
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    Advent Optical ADE-WG01 (colour change light up)
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    Dell Bluetooth
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    120 kb/s
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    ASUS USB 3.0 5Gbps/SATA 6Gbps - PCI-Express Combo Controller Card (U3S6)
Yes... I'm sorry if i didnt make myself clear. By halfway through a upgrade i mean,..... haha.... let's start at the start. Started with a Vista H.P.x64...upgraded to Win7 H.P.x64 with a upgrade disc from Toshiba. Messed my system up so started the system recovery partition with the intention to start there and upgrade again. When the partition was finished enough to start "seeing" Windows again... I started getting error messages. I figured no big deal. I'll be upgrading like NOW.Using the Toshiba upgrade assistant ,(it deletes things that does not work with Win7 and downloads things that do, drivers etc. plus a LOT of bloatware!), all seemed to be going well until it was time to insert the upgrade disc itself. At that time , my machine would not read the disc. (Why i said "halfway" through). I have done everything i could think of to check the drive, device manager says it is working, also says all drivers are up to date. I even deleted the drivers so windows could reinstall them on a reboot. Cleaned it, went through disc management etc. No joy.

Anyway...... after cussing :mad::cry:, i rebooted for the last time and......... my goodness the things that were bad/wrong/ error messages. Have ran the sfc/scannow multiple times. It's repaired most of the things by now, still getting system/program/application crashes. Still no optical drive. Have repaired some things myself and the sfc/scannow has fixed more. The thing is I think I've somehow corrupted the recovery partition files and as stated earlier have lost my recovery disc's. The System Image i DO have is from Win7 and Vista won't recognize it at all. I do have my machine back into a .... halfway ...stable condition but with still random crashes/failures etc.

You say you might need a cbs log? My goodness that thing must be 1000 pages long?!
could i post just some of it.... or would you need it all?

Thank you for any help/advice you can give.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Toshiba A505D-6858
    CPU
    AMD Turion x2
    Motherboard
    Insyde H2o
    Memory
    4 gb
indianacarnie said:
Yes... I'm sorry if i didnt make myself clear. By halfway through a upgrade i mean,..... haha.... let's start at the start. Started with a Vista H.P.x64...upgraded to Win7 H.P.x64 with a upgrade disc from Toshiba. Messed my system up so started the system recovery partition with the intention to start there and upgrade again. When the partition was finished enough to start "seeing" Windows again... I started getting error messages. I figured no big deal. I'll be upgrading like NOW.Using the Toshiba upgrade assistant ,(it deletes things that does not work with Win7 and downloads things that do, drivers etc. plus a LOT of bloatware!), all seemed to be going well until it was time to insert the upgrade disc itself. At that time , my machine would not read the disc. (Why i said "halfway" through). I have done everything i could think of to check the drive, device manager says it is working, also says all drivers are up to date. I even deleted the drivers so windows could reinstall them on a reboot. Cleaned it, went through disc management etc. No joy.

Anyway...... after cussing :mad::cry:, i rebooted for the last time and......... my goodness the things that were bad/wrong/ error messages. Have ran the sfc/scannow multiple times. It's repaired most of the things by now, still getting system/program/application crashes. Still no optical drive. Have repaired some things myself and the sfc/scannow has fixed more. The thing is I think I've somehow corrupted the recovery partition files and as stated earlier have lost my recovery disc's. The System Image i DO have is from Win7 and Vista won't recognize it at all. I do have my machine back into a .... halfway ...stable condition but with still random crashes/failures etc.

You say you might need a cbs log? My goodness that thing must be 1000 pages long?!
could i post just some of it.... or would you need it all?

Thank you for any help/advice you can give.
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Hello!

Thanks for the +rep. I understand the issue now. Here are my thoughts:

That system is now so messed by that even if you got Windows 7 upgraded onto it, it wouldn't work properly. You need to reinstall again. I will not fix that computer, because it is too badly messed up and will carry forward to 7. However, contrary to popular belief, you can actually do a Clean Install off an Upgrade disk.

Boot from the disk, or you can try it from within Windows. Select Custom Install. It will detect your current installation, and allow you to upgrade. This should give you a nice clean copy of 7 without all of these errors and junk.

Are you happy with that? I think it is the best thing for you. Any issue, don't hesitate to ask!

Richard
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Dell XPS 420
    CPU
    Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 2.50GHz
    Motherboard
    Stock Dell 0TP406
    Memory
    4 gb (DDR2 800) 400MHz
    Graphics card(s)
    ATI Radeon HD 3870 (512 MBytes)
    Sound Card
    Onboard
    Monitor(s) Displays
    1 x Dell 2007FP and 1 x (old) Sonic flat screen
    Screen Resolution
    1600 x 1200 and 1280 x 1204
    Hard Drives
    1 x 640Gb (SATA 300) Western Digital: WDC WD6400AAKS-75A7B0 1 x 1Tb (SATA 600) Western Digital: Caviar Black, SATA 6GB/S, 64Mb cache, 8ms Western Digital: WDC WD1002FAEX-00Z3A0 ATA Device
    PSU
    Stock PSU - 375W
    Case
    Dell XPS 420
    Cooling
    Stock Fan
    Mouse
    Advent Optical ADE-WG01 (colour change light up)
    Keyboard
    Dell Bluetooth
    Internet Speed
    120 kb/s
    Other Info
    ASUS USB 3.0 5Gbps/SATA 6Gbps - PCI-Express Combo Controller Card (U3S6)
Thats pretty much the same conclusion i have come to also. thanks for your input and advice. Will have to get an external usb dvd-rom to try that though, and due to funds being low will have to wait a week or so. You don't see any problem with an external , do you? (have gotten a lot done manually but still cant get the optical drive to work) again, thank you.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Toshiba A505D-6858
    CPU
    AMD Turion x2
    Motherboard
    Insyde H2o
    Memory
    4 gb
indianacarnie said:
Thats pretty much the same conclusion i have come to also. thanks for your input and advice. Will have to get an external usb dvd-rom to try that though, and due to funds being low will have to wait a week or so. You don't see any problem with an external , do you? (have gotten a lot done manually but still cant get the optical drive to work) again, thank you.
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An external drive usually works. You could try copying all of the files from your DVD to a large USB and booting off that. It doesn't always work, but you could try it.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Dell XPS 420
    CPU
    Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 2.50GHz
    Motherboard
    Stock Dell 0TP406
    Memory
    4 gb (DDR2 800) 400MHz
    Graphics card(s)
    ATI Radeon HD 3870 (512 MBytes)
    Sound Card
    Onboard
    Monitor(s) Displays
    1 x Dell 2007FP and 1 x (old) Sonic flat screen
    Screen Resolution
    1600 x 1200 and 1280 x 1204
    Hard Drives
    1 x 640Gb (SATA 300) Western Digital: WDC WD6400AAKS-75A7B0 1 x 1Tb (SATA 600) Western Digital: Caviar Black, SATA 6GB/S, 64Mb cache, 8ms Western Digital: WDC WD1002FAEX-00Z3A0 ATA Device
    PSU
    Stock PSU - 375W
    Case
    Dell XPS 420
    Cooling
    Stock Fan
    Mouse
    Advent Optical ADE-WG01 (colour change light up)
    Keyboard
    Dell Bluetooth
    Internet Speed
    120 kb/s
    Other Info
    ASUS USB 3.0 5Gbps/SATA 6Gbps - PCI-Express Combo Controller Card (U3S6)
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