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Upgrade From Vista hangs on copying temporary files
I'm trying to upgrade from Vista Home Premium to 7 Home Premium (both 32 bit) using factory media (the fancy hologram DVDs directly from MS). When I start the installation process, the first thing it says is "Setup is copying temporary files". Then it just hangs there. I have let it go for as long as 8 hours, but nothing changes. I have seen others with this problem, but they all either get an error message, or it hangs at a certain percentage. I do not get any progress indicator at all. I tried some others' suggestions like uninstalling Apple and Adobe apps (I installed just about everything actually), defrag, disk cleanup etc). Do I just need to wait longer? This is crazy...
Also, on a more procedural note, I have a concern about the process. The internal dvd on this laptop no longer works (long story for a different thread), so I'm using an external DVD drive. The laptop can NOT be made to use this external drive as a bootable device (no option in the bios for this). Any concerns there? I'm expecting some reboots during the install process...will setup need to boot from that DVD to continue, or by that point will it all be on the hard drive (assuming it ever finishes "copying temporary files")?
Thanks in advance..
Eric