How long does it take to install Windows 7?

[badnewcastle]

Since it's retail release, I've installed it 4 times. It takes about 3-6 minutes to get to the initial install screen. Then another 5 minutes to start installing once I have picked my partition... Once it starts installing, it's about 15 minutes to get to the desktop. The 15 minute part doesn't alarm me that much, but the waiting for 5 minutes for the initial screen and again for it to start once my options are picked alarms me. Is this normal? Specs are in sig.

I only installed it at stock speeds and I've used 2 different sets of ram. The first 3 times I installed it, I would get BSOD's after about a week and only randomly when I would wake it from sleep. So then I went to not sleeping it in this current installment.

I upgraded from Vista 64 which had no problems. I think the install process might hint at my problem...

 

[Dahak]

I have not personally timed it, but about 20-25 min should be about right probably about 40min at the longest depening on specs. sounds like it is taking yours about 25 min.

 

[Vilandra]

I timed mine today on my main machine and it was about 20 minutes.

I also installed the RC on an older P4 machine with a noisy HDD and it took all day. Literally all day. Started that morning, and it finished later that evening. Boots up fine though, and works with no problems. Just took all day to install.

 

[thatsright]

Its taking me about 8 minutes. But I'm using a Intel Gen 2 SSD drive. And I'm only counting from the time it copies files until I can actually login...so maybe 15 minutes total.

 

[Tsavo]

18 minutes on mine from disc to desktop.

 

[JackMDS]

Clean Fresh install 20-40 Min., depending on the Speed of the computer & HD.

In-Place upgrade takes more (it can get up to an hour or more). Depending on the complexity of the original computer, it take more time to study, and deal with all the Installed Applications and Data.

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[sivart]

Mine took about 15 minutes, but then I installed from a USB drive and not a DVD ROM...so that sped up the copy process in the first part of the install.

 

[corkyg]

Did both clean install and direct upgrade from Vista. The Clean Install took about 27 minutes. The upgrade took about 52 minutes. Same machine on two different HDDs of the same brand and size.

 

[krose]

I read about an issue that if you don't have a floppy drive but don't have it disabled in the BIOS Windows keeps looking for one and takes quite a while to do it.

 

[Snapster]

Fresh - 20 mins to desktop
Upgrade - hours (depending on how much stuff you have installed)