Recent content by damoven

Well, started this adventure on Friday... and just now, I'm almost there. Just got 1 device to identify and get working. Win7 is installed in a fresh directory, most files are transferred across without problems. Just emptying and reformatting my USB drive for NTFS and then I'll set up a backup...

Ok, did the full clean install, but forgot to remove the partition and remake it first. As a consequence, it's not a *clean* hard drive install and I have some old file structure etc. As an aside, Windows 7 seems quite happy to use the Vista backup archive that I have got on my USB hard drive...

Well, I moved the offending driver file across. Setup had already hung once (citing the missing driver). So, I moved it to the directory of the temporary windows 7 install. On reboot, I chose to boot 'setup' rather than Vista. The setup launched, and continued past the point it normally...

Yes, for now, I'm still trying to get the upgrade to work (can't face the re-install and download of all those WoW patches and steam games). However I did some digging - I think my problem is caused by the fact my system has JMB38X Product Family PCI Express to 1394a OHCI and Memory Card Host...

Update - Today I tried burning the iso on different media - Verbatim DVD-R disks, at 2x speed, using my built-in blu-ray/dvd burner, and then the blu-ray dvd-burner in my laptop. Neither disk worked on this PC, with setup halting at the same spot (519mb into extracting windows files) I've...

Going down to 4gb, then 2gb, didn't make any difference. I'll try re-downloading the iso, and re-burning, and if all that fails, I guess I'll give up on Windows 7 for now

The PC is about 6 months old, if that. It's an Intel quad-core Q6600 processor 8gb PC2-6400C5 RAM XFX ATI-Radeon HD 4870 graphics card ABIT IP35 Pro XE motherboard Seagate Barracuda 7200 1TB SATA-II hard drive LG GGC-H20L Blu-ray drive At this point, I'm thinking the .iso itself must be...

After buring at 4x using ImgBurn, it's at 18%, saying "Windows needs to restart your computer" and not progressing, so I guess the burn at 4x didn't work at all. :confused:

No, I didn't use ImgBurn, but I did burn at a slower than full speed.. I think I burned at 4x not 16x, using Power2Go I'll try burning the disk with ImgBurn at 4x

Thanks for the advice. I guess I'll check out the guide posted elsewhere in the forums for "Windows Easy Transfer" At this point the move to Windows 7 doesn't seem to outweight the pain in the backside of having to reinstall 500gb of stuff.... :confused:

I downloaded a legal full iso- en_windows_7_ultimate_x64_dvd_X15-65922 Running the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor indicated there would be no problems with an upgrade from Vista 64 Ultimate edition. Setup starts just fine, but halts at 18% of 'unpacking windows files'. The computer then reboots...