Recovery disc creation and windows 7 upgrade

when i get to disc 3 of recovery disc it shows that it has written the disc but before it cane verify it, it ejects the disc and a screen pops up and says to reinsert the disc, when it is reinserted nothing happens and have to cancel operation, after three times wasting disc to try to get third disc created need a suggestion since seem not to be able to get thru to hp support. also, trying to upgrade from vista to windows 7, after going thru all the things required by the windows upgrade advisor and hp upgrade assist, when windows 7 upgrade disc is installed, get error message that autorun.dll is missing and get error code 0x456 and computer freezes up, and the only way to get disc out of disc drive and get computer to work again is to manually turn it off, and still can't get thru to hp!

Hi m.tarek,
I doubt that this would possible. Firstly you only ordered an upgrade, that means this version can only be installed on a preinstalled Vista version. Its not a full version that you can install without OS.
Furthermore the recovery files on the second partition (btw, thats an image) contains the Vista OS and not Windows 7. This will not be updated.
Sorry mate, but therefore its necessary always to make this upgrade. Alternative you can create your own image using Acronis True Image or another image software.

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