I got anotger laptop my old one was vista now i am on windows 7 the cd that i have will not let me use it it does not support windows 7 can you please tell me what to do. Thank you.

1. if the cd rom is usb then the netbook should detect it immediately unless it is too old for the Windows 7 Operating system
2. you can check the manufacturers site of the CD ROM and see how old it is.
if it is too old it will not mount .
3. you can check the compatibility mode for the device and see if it will load under another OS ( operating system ) such as Windows XP or Vista.
4. check windows update for latest drivers
5. Here is a link for Windows compatibility:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/compatibility/windows-7/en-us/default.aspx

Hello,
Windows 7 cannot be compressed in CD because the size of Windows 7 is 4.5 GB, So Windows 7 comes in DVD. You should install a DVD Drive and then try installing Windows 7.

you can install windows 7
turn on your laptop, press f2 to open set up, go to boot menu set first boot as dvd/cd room and second boot as hdd (or you can directly press f12 to go to boot menu)
insert your windows 7 into your dvd
press any key (for example press space bar) when message press any key from cd appears
choose language
press install now
format your drive which contains an old operation system by clicking option/advance tab or you can just installed your windows 7 by pressing install (if you do this your old windows or vista will be still in your drive in the folder windows old on c and you can delete later)
wait for the process finish

Hi Victor, you need a bootable vista disk.
Now insert the disk into your CD Rom and then boot it up and then follow the instructions and install VISTA operating system. If you are not a professional contact me back I will give you instructions step by step.

Regards

your old os is on the hidden drive, but if you are upgrading you should not need your old os disk for this

if your system came with vista originally the issue would be is you would need to know what version of vista you have on your system, the version makes the difference if you have vista home premium then your windows 7 should be a win7 Home premium as well, because if you are upgrading vista using your win7 disc and your windows version are different for example you have vista Home premium and your win7 is win7 ultimate and you do an upgrade the problem will be your product key,

but if you have a retail version of win7 and you are installing it on your laptop Vaio insert the disc in the DVD-drive win7 needs a DVD reader to be able to install win7 if you have a cd-rom it wont work, then turn the laptop off power it back up keep on tapping f12 it should bring you a boot menu, select ODD or which ever is your dvd drive then press enter then enter again if it says on the screen press any key to boot to CD, this should begin win7 installation on the screen saying windows is loading files the so on ans so fort ^_^ this will over write everything in vista but in win7 it will still create a windows.old folder from vista only from the my documents folder my picture and my music and my video and desktop Items but remember application icons will not work on win7 you may need to reinstall the program again for it to work on win7 and yeah make sure that you choose custom/advance in the selection screen do no select upgrade unless you vista and win7 are the same version eg. Vista Home premium / Win7 Home premium ^_^

You can reset the password of Windows 7 and Windows Vista. These steps are not provided as troubleshooting. I m jus curious to help you out with my experience.

insert the disc and boot to WinRE

Boot to Win RE
Click Command Prompt option.
C:
CD Windows\system32
ren cmd.exe cmd.old
ren magnify.exe cmd.exe
ren cmd.old magnify.exe
Restart computer
Click on Easy of Access centre left side bottom ? Choose Magnify option ? Command prompt opens up
Type: net user administrator /active:yes
Restart the computer
Logon on administrator account and then using User Account page, remove password for the other account
Search for Magnify.exe in start search and click on it
Command prompt opens up
Type: net user administrator /active:no
Restart the computer
Boot to winRE
Type the following:
C:
CD Windows\system32
ren magnify.exe cmd.old
ren cmd.exe magnify.exe
ren cmd.old cmd.exe
exit
Restart the computer – system logs on to the User account without asking for password provided there is only one user account.

You need an original Windows 7 installation CD to change from Vista to Windows 7.
After purchasing the installation CD, simply install it and Windows Vista will be replaced by Windows 7.

use a backup cd or buy a copy of vista premium becuse windows 7 is beta and not released in uk yet