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Jonathan Crawford

Hi

I am just installing Windows seven and have been sitting waiting
for something to happen for the past hour and a half, and the line
telling you how much progress you have made has not moved on bit.


jc
 
if you are doing an upgrade instead of clean install it can take a while.

some people report 6-8 hours for the upgrade to complete.

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Hi

I am just installing Windows seven and have been sitting waiting
for something to happen for the past hour and a half, and the line
telling you how much progress you have made has not moved on bit.


jc
 
Jonathan

Hope you are not trying to upgrade Windows XP to Windows 7 by using the Windows 7
install disk. Since you posted to a Windows XP newsgroup and as you describing your
issue it sure sounds like that. You CANNOT upgrade an existing Windows XP install
with a Windows 7 disk. It must be a clean reformat and by that I mean that you have
to get rid of your XP on your computer completely on your hard drive must be clean
before you can install Windows 7
 
Peter Foldes said:
Jonathan

Hope you are not trying to upgrade Windows XP to Windows 7 by using the
Windows 7 install disk. Since you posted to a Windows XP newsgroup and as
you describing your issue it sure sounds like that. You CANNOT upgrade an
existing Windows XP install with a Windows 7 disk. It must be a clean
reformat and by that I mean that you have to get rid of your XP on your
computer completely on your hard drive must be clean before you can
install Windows 7
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Seems like the installation would inform the user of that!

EW
 
EW

Not necessarily. If the OP is using a Retail version of Windows 7 and trying to
Upgrade XP by putting in the Win 7 Retail install CD then it would do exactly as the
OP posted.
We have tried this when we worked the Beta
 
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