Windows 7: Install time difference between "Upgrade" and "Custom"

Is the time to "Upgrade from vista to 7 supposed to be wayyy longer then it would to do jsut a clean install? (For example, hanging at 18% for a while while installing during upgrade)

(posting this since i cant get any replies to a previous topic)

The upgrade process will always be longer, and sometimes considerably. The upgrade process has to move/relocate previous files and keep certain registry entries based on software already installed. Did the upgrade eventually complete? (it's a silly question but you could be dual booting). If not then it could be a bad burn and your systems is taking it's time trying to read the install files from the DVD.

I let it sit there at 18% for about...half an hour...I got impatient cause I had a paper to do. I'd dual-boot.. But i dont want to part. 35gigs from the 160 I have left.... I may let it do an upgrade overnight tonight If I dont have to raid (World of Warcraft). So it does take a considerableeee amount of time? I really want to use 7 but I actually do like the software that has come pre-installed on my laptop (HP MediaSmart programs, cyberlink dvd suite) so I want to do my hardest to keep those.

ber, you're way too impatient, in my case that step took about 2-3 hours, same with the "moving data" part.
for a total 6 hours, unfortunately I get bsods after finishing and have to rollback.
so cant help you more on that

I would advise burning another DVD at the slowest speed, this can reduce burn errors which lead to read issues. It might be worth a try....

I had a similar thing happen. Mine hung at 21% (of the Uncompressing Files step) for a pretty long while (at least 30 mins), but I went to bed so I dunno if it hung after that.

I unzipped the ISO and did the upgrade from my HD, so there couldn't have been DVD read errors.

So did everything work alright after you woke up?

Im finally tossing in the towel and dual-booting, dont want to risk not being able to use the recoverypartition if things go bad.

Oh, yeah. When I woke up, it was at the login screen. Other than my Recently Opened Documents, everything was perfect. My screensaver had reset, I think, too, but so far, looks the same.

Unfortunately, I'm running an AMD Athlon XP 2400+ which doesn't support the AMD-V Virtualization feature, so I can't use XP mode. But you know, with only 1GB of RAM, I'd say Windows 7 is working pretty well for me.

Yeah...I did a test to see what software would work or not, and come to find out, that the recovery module/program is unable to work with 7 so i decided to just dualboot. COngrats on getting it to work =)