Pavilion Elite m9600t: OS reinstall for HD "Advanced format" on Windows Vista

I have a HP Pavilion Elite m9600t desktop provided with Windows Vista. Recently my 640 GB Hitachi hard drive gone bad. I ordered a new one (Seagate 1 TB), installed and tried to reinstall the Vista operating system with the provided HP Vista recovery disks.

During installation, the following message appeared: "installation of Windows could not configure windows to run on a hardware on this computer." I did research and found this happens on Vista with discs advanced formatting (AF). My new record is AF.

I have read some threads on the forum of HP who say that you can always do the operating system installed, but you have to do by creating a new disc of installation with your product key, and then mix a partitioning in there. I'm confused on where to find the ISO files for Vista (64-bit SP1), as well as how to partition before installing the operating system, and which must be partitioned.

I have a drive to upgrade Vista to Windows 7, but I can't use it until Vista is installed. Is there a way I can ignore the Vista installation process and move to Windows 7? Who could help me to avoid the issue of the AF.

Thank you!

Paul R

Hello:

You can check this link to know how to clean your drive of W7 upgrade installation.  I assume you have the W7 upgrade of the key product that will be necessary.

http://helpdeskgeek.com/Windows-7/clean-install-Windows-7-using-an-upgrade-disc/

Another thing you can try, is to format your new drive to NTFS MBR and get rid of the advanced formatting.

You can use this disk management software and create a bootable CD, and if everything goes well after you format the disc as it was supposed to be for your PC, you can use the recovery discs if the clean install from a disk upgrade W7 does not (because of the problem of the AF).

http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html

Tutorial on how to change from GPT to MBR...

http://www.partitionwizard.com/help/initialize-to-MBR-disk.html#HOWTO

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