Windows 7 lock during upgrade from vista-help please

[chris544]

I have a dell XPS l{ess then 1 year old} quad core Intel processor plenty of memory and all. that I am trying to upgrade to win 7. The compability manager says I am fing for the upgrade. During the installation the computer seems to be locked up about 3 quarters of the way through. The progress bar is simply stopped. I started the install about 11:00pm and it's now 5:25am. Should it take this long? This is the 2nd time I have tried this and the same thing has happened both times. The only way to abort it to restart the machine and then of course I will have lost all the vista files and updates. any suggestions? Should I just let it keep going? Calling Dell is a joke of course. Thanks in advance!

 

[theog]

Do you backup all your data before upgrading?

Best way install OS is clean install.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/31402-clean-install-upgrade-windows-7-version.html?ltr=C

Take a look at these posts:

http://www.sevenforums.com/installation-setup/34853-common-installation-problems.html
http://www.sevenforums.com/installa...ck-reference-list-installing-windows-7-a.html
http://www.sevenforums.com/installation-setup/28129-questions-use-help-installation-issues.html
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1649-clean-install-windows-7-a.html?ltr=C
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2432-usb-windows-7-installation-key-drive-create.html?ltr=U

http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/22550-filling-out-system-specs.html
Can you post your specs.

 

[chris544]

Windows 7 upgrade fron vista lock up

Maybe I will simply do a full clean install and not the upgrade. I backed up my files using windows backup to a external hard drive. When I have upgraded how do I get those files back? Documents pictutres ect? Thanks