Thanks for the advice - don't want to stick with vista though as it's an awful OS & even with ready boost the laptop struggles.
(Plus there's the expense part)
I'll go look at Acer support.
Thanks again
It goes right to the very end mate, then goes to the black screen on the final reboot.
Very strange.
Seems my laptop came set up with the HD partitioned.
Could that be the reason for the fail?
Hi all,
As per subject, our laptop keeps throwing a flakey when trying to install Win7 Ultimate over the current crappy Vista OS.
Laptop passed the compatibility checker no probs & has all the updates installed, but every time we...