Thats what you have to do in order to actually boot from the CD otherwise Win 7 will start as normal and you'll be back to square one.
But here is the catch: Windows 7 will NOT TELL YOU to press any key to start from the CD. So basically you have to go back to the bios and make sure you're booting from the optical drive where the cd installation is. The simple reason for that is because Windows cannot initiate a reinstallation within itself. to install Windows, make sure that a partition on your boot disk has at least 655 megabytes (MB) of free space." When I tried to do it I got that same error message that all of of you have been getting "Windows Setup cannot find a location to store temporary installation files. Ok I was installing a brand new copy of Win 7 home premium edition and forgot to partition a couple of drives and ended up having to re-install the OS again. Any expertise in this would be greatly appreciated. I not dot want to do a full installation, as I want to keep my files. I am wanting to simply upgrade Vista I don't like it and would be happy to use W7, even as a beta. With this partition in place (labeled Z I tried again, only to receive the same error code.
I then created a small partition on C: thinking, as the error stated, some space for installation files was needed. I tried this and received error code 0x80070490.
The error I received there directed me to restart Windows normally and install from within it. I first tried burning W7 to a disc and booting from that. When I boot to Vista, only the C: drive is visible (the drive with XP is hidden, so I don't think this is a problem). I have a dual boot system, with the OS's on separate drives. I receive the exact same error message, alto I am trying to install from within Vista (and from what I've read, you have to have Vista SP1 installed to do the upgrade).
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