Windows 7 build 7077 bugs

Mr GRiM said:

Delivering a quality upgrade experience

Here’s what you can do to bypass the check for pre-release upgrade IF YOU REALLY REALLY NEED TO:

1. Download the ISO as you did previously and burn the ISO to a DVD.
2. Copy the whole image to a storage location you wish to run the upgrade from (a bootable flash drive or a directory on any partition on the machine running the pre-release build).
3. Browse to the sources directory.
4. Open the file cversion.ini in a text editor like Notepad.
5. Modify the MinClient build number to a value lower than the down-level build. For example, change 7100 to 7000 (pictured below).
6. Save the file in place with the same name.
7. Run setup like you would normally from this modified copy of the image and the version check will be bypassed.

These same steps will be required as we transition from the RC milestone to the RTM milestone.

Again, we know many people (including tens of thousands at Microsoft) are relying on the pre-release builds of Windows 7 for mission critical and daily work, making this step less than convenient. We’re working hard to provide the highest quality release we can and so we’d like to make sure for this final phase of testing we’re supporting the most real world scenarios possible, which incremental build to build upgrades are not. At the same time everyone on the beta has been so great we wanted to make sure we at least offered an opportunity to make your own expert and informed choice about how to handle the upgrade.

Thank you Sir . I was looking at that post just now . LOL

I'll give that a try and post back .

Again TY , MR. GRIM

My system

Mr GRiM said:

That sucks, maybe you could fool it into thinking it was a repair install by taking the install.wim out of the 7077 build ISO and putting it in the 7068 build, worth a try if no one else has any suggestions.

I'm game to try anything once , lol !

Thanks

Mr GRIM....what's going on?

just woke up :)

is it worth to do a install to 7077 x64? now running 7068 or wait for RC...I'm confused

What directory is the install.wim in on my current windows install ? I'm not seeing it here .

This is a screen shot of what I have in the sources dir. on my hd now , and there is no install.wim . Do I create one here ?

Mr GRiM said:

It's in the previous screen shot in sources.

I found the one in the #7077 build , I posted a screen shot of the sources dir on my hard drive for build #7068 , you sugessted to swap the files and I'm asking do I make a install.wim file in my #7068 ?