Win7 RC1 - How long should an upgrade take?

andys2 said:

So i mean, must it be the ATI Card? I mean, unless it finds issues with 4 GBs of RAM too? I mean, I don't understand how the graphics card would even affect it :s

well
someone here already reported it couldt be the 8 GB of ram.

the Ati in other card, could be some sort of driver incompatibility. what version of catalyst you're using Andy?

I remmeber the old 8.12 was targeted by some x64 users for not accepting anything over 4Gb of ram ( it would crash badly until the ram was removed ) others didnt report such a problem, so its hard to know.

My drivers report:

Driver Packaging Version 8.60-090316a1-078238C-ATI
Catalyst™ Version 09.4
Provider ATI Technologies Inc.
2D Driver Version 8.01.01.888
2D Driver File Path /REGISTRY/MACHINE/SYSTEM/ControlSet001/Control/CLASS/{4D36E968-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}/0000
Direct3D Version 8.14.10.0655
OpenGL Version 6.14.10.8577
Catalyst™ Control Center Version 2009.0317.2131.36802

although, i'm asked to remove them before the Win7 installation.

andys2 said:

My drivers report:



although, i'm asked to remove them before the Win7 installation.

weird, you're using the newest ones.

you removed them when attempting to install 7?

Yep, used the install manager removal tool (as far as I know, the only way to remove them)

then the only clue we have is.... that we all 3 have something in common and it is the 3870.
and betwen andy and me, the 8Gb of ram as well.

I have no idea where to go now lol.

I upgraded from DVD from Vista to 7000 and it took me about 2 hours. 7000 -> 7057 was about the same. That was from DVD.

But about that problem: Looks like there's a driver problem on your machine somewhere. Best bet is to just clean install Win7 now. All your stuff is stuck in a Windows.old folder, so you won't lose anything unless something wrong goes on, which it likely won't.

Livin in a box said:

I upgraded from DVD from Vista to 7000 and it took me about 2 hours. 7000 -> 7057 was about the same. That was from DVD.

But about that problem: Looks like there's a driver problem on your machine somewhere. Best bet is to just clean install Win7 now. All your stuff is stuck in a Windows.old folder, so you won't lose anything unless something wrong goes on, which it likely won't.

the problem is not just old data, but configuration and tweaks.
the other thing I could try as well is, try to roll back to vista's defaults, on all options ( like services, I usually shut down services I dont need )

or try a beta version of Vista ( I tried the version 7068 and seemed to work fine in my case, but never tried upgrade. )

Yeah, plus, i wont have enough room to use the transfer files and settings wizard. This is very bizzare and I still haven't come to a way to fix it. Is this the end of the line?

I actually wonder if I should try upgrading first to a beta like the 7070 or similars, then upgrade to the RC7100.

any expert can give their opinions?

I am currently doing a clean install on the laptop here, i had the update freeze issue from Vista Home prem Sp1 x64 to 7100 RC x64. I'll get back to the prosess later on. Currently formating harddrive.