Windows 7 installation problem? -

I tried to upgrade to windows 7 and everything worked great until it got to Completing installation when it was installing the drivers... after about 5min. of saying installing drivers and setting up your system the blue screen of death came up ...and then the computer restarted and restored everything back to vista when it finished restoring and was started up it said to try to contact microsoft... disable your sound card or update your sound card I have Sound Blaster Live 24 bit which is old... I tried updating it but that didnt work... Please help...

Its a really bad idea to upgrade from vista to a veta version as beta versions can be unstable. Try making a second partition to install vista in. Go to startgt;Computergt;right click to managegt;Disk managementgt;Right click your main driver and click quot;shrinkquot;gt;go through the steps and put as much gb as you wantgt;restart and try the installation process again, except this time press custom or dont press upgrade. You will find the new partition that you made and install it there. Now you have 2 operating systems - Vista and Windows 7. You probably want to upgrade because all your files are in vista, but its advised not to because again, its a beta version and all your files may become corrupt if something goes wrong. By dual booting, you can just delete that partition after your testing of windows 7 beta is over. Then you can buy the REAL windows 7 and upgrade vista.

I crashed when the automatic update for Windows 7 came along. I restored to v. 6 and turned off automatic updates.