Holes I had to jump through to upgrade Win 7 build 7100 to the RTM (build 7600)

legoman666

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I had the 7100 beta client for ~4-5 months. I just bought the final release from my university for $7. To upgrade and not reinstall, I copied the DVD contents to my hard drive and modified the cversion.ini in the \sources directory to have a minclient version of 7000. Then all one has to do is run the setup.exe in the root image directory.

Then I ran into the problem of the setup telling me I didn't have enough free space on drive I:, which is my System reserved partition that windows 7 makes (I think the boot loader and memtest are on it). I tried to manually resize the partition to no avail. After Googling for solutions to this problem for a while, I simply ran the setup.exe as administrator and it upgrading as I type!
 

JackMDS

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Win 7 will not let you upgrade if you do not have 12-19 GB of free space on the hard drive.

Backup some of your files to an external drive and erase them from the HD to free space.

Also it is better to burn an iso to DVD and than use the DVD to install and upgrade rather than trying to install from an ISO image within an application.
 

legoman666

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Win 7 will not let you upgrade if you do not have 12-19 GB of free space on the hard drive.

Backup some of your files to an external drive and erase them from the HD to free space.

Also it is better to burn an iso to DVD and than use the DVD to install and upgrade rather than trying to install from an ISO image within an application.

You didn't read what I typed, did you?
 

Modelworks

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Make sure if you have problems with win7 that you tell people you you upgraded from the beta. There is a reason it is not supported. Debugging software is a pain when people alter the normal use.