Vista Ultimate issues with HP Pavillion dv7 series

fadz · 22nd November 2008, 8:10 PM

Hey all,i bought the HP Pavillion dv7 series laptop with the 2.8ghz cpu,4gb ram,800gb HDD from harvey Norman,it came ready to be insalled with vista home Edition,but i formated that partition in order to install windows vista Ultimate only to be told there arnt many differences anyways

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The issue is it gets to Completing installation and then the green bar down below where the installing windows section is wont move anymore,what should i do,is there a fix for this,or will this laptop only run vista Home edition,cheers for any help at all...

atempest · 2nd January 2009, 1:02 PM

Hi Guys

I have basically the same HP laptop, and I am experiencing the exactly same issue, it just hangs at the completing install step after I have formated and tried to install vista ultimate.

Has anyone been able to solve / workaround this problem.

Cheers
Adam

ak-efekt · 11th January 2009, 6:51 AM

funny that, i work for harvey norman and iv also got the Dv7 1019TX and mines running vista ultimate fine, thats gotta be the queerest thing iv ever seen lol.

try a low level format with something like xp then try putting vista over the top and see how it goes.

22nd November 2008, 8:10 PM	#1
fadz Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Sydney Posts: 556	Vista Ultimate issues with HP Pavillion dv7 series Hey all,i bought the HP Pavillion dv7 series laptop with the 2.8ghz cpu,4gb ram,800gb HDD from harvey Norman,it came ready to be insalled with vista home Edition,but i formated that partition in order to install windows vista Ultimate only to be told there arnt many differences anyways. The issue is it gets to Completing installation and then the green bar down below where the installing windows section is wont move anymore,what should i do,is there a fix for this,or will this laptop only run vista Home edition,cheers for any help at all... __________________ Current PC's: HP DV7 NOTEBOOK DESKTOP WC:CPU:Q9450 Overclocked to 3.8ghz,GPU:9800GX2SLI,RAM: DDR3 PATRIOT 1333mhz,TOWER:Thermaltake mozart painted and modded,PSU:Thermaltake 1200watt,HDD's:2x150gb raptors OCAU Extreme Cooling Club H2O Member Succesful trades with: iinsom, body_pump, D3LTR33, TheReverend*! , M4g3X0r, TRAG!C, zhenkai, Alias, wolfmanoz, {icebox425} , stablez, travrobbo, statts, mAple, primesuspect

2nd January 2009, 1:02 PM	#2
atempest New Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 1	Exactly the same issue Hi Guys I have basically the same HP laptop, and I am experiencing the exactly same issue, it just hangs at the completing install step after I have formated and tried to install vista ultimate. Has anyone been able to solve / workaround this problem. Cheers Adam

11th January 2009, 6:51 AM	#3
ak-efekt Member Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 43	funny that, i work for harvey norman and iv also got the Dv7 1019TX and mines running vista ultimate fine, thats gotta be the queerest thing iv ever seen lol. try a low level format with something like xp then try putting vista over the top and see how it goes.