It's Aug 6th... Where is my Win7 RTM?

[PhaZe]

hehe I just checked my technet and I see a lot of Win 7 editions. Servers are probably getting hammered.

 

[armstrda]

I thought it was one common install disc like Vista was?

 

[dguy6789]

Originally posted by: mike2fix
In case you haven't seen it:

"Catastrophic Bug Found in Windows 7 RTM Build, Launch May be Delayed"


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That's an extremely ridiculous article.

 

[TurtleMan]

jesus.... i was at 400k at one point.. now down to 80k.. and as we speak.. it peak up to 150k, then down to 50k... WTF... im on the alpha omega backbone connection and im still slow...

110.51 Mb/s

 

[KentState]

At a blistering 60 KB/s.....

 

[akugami]

Originally posted by: armstrda
I thought it was one common install disc like Vista was?

Windows 7 Enterprise seems to have different file sizes from the other editions. However, the other editions, while seeming to have the same file sizes have different hashes.

Downloads are ssllooowwwww. The ones who got theirs quick seem to be those who hit the downloads at roughly 1PM EST (10AM PST) and got theirs within two hours. Those who just started their downloads about 2-3 hours after availability are taking a hit as MS's servers get overloaded. Averaging 35k a second on my end.

 

[jkresh]

40K a second, with x86 and 64 of ultimate and enterprise I figure it will finish tomorrow (says 15 hours left for 1st disk but I think it has to speed up, should be 500+ from technet usually)

waiting for intel ssd to be back in stock before main testbed install so no big deal if it takes a while but this is kind of preposterous.

 

[TurtleMan]

Originally posted by: akugami

Originally posted by: armstrda
I thought it was one common install disc like Vista was?

Windows 7 Enterprise seems to have different file sizes from the other editions. However, the other editions, while seeming to have the same file sizes have different hashes.

Downloads are ssllooowwwww. The ones who got theirs quick seem to be those who hit the downloads at roughly 1PM EST (10AM PST) and got theirs within two hours. Those who just started their downloads about 2-3 hours after availability are taking a hit as MS's servers get overloaded. Averaging 35k a second on my end.

Nope, not realy. look at my post, we started at 10am pst, and speed was fast at 300-400k, then it slow down when everyone swam in...

not sure, but i am at 62% now..

 

[gizbug]

Nice. Installed the RTM leak last week, and found a surprise free Ultimate KEY in my email today. Best of both worlds.

 

[IEC]

Originally posted by: mike2fix
In case you haven't seen it:

"Catastrophic Bug Found in Windows 7 RTM Build, Launch May be Delayed"

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That's FUD

 

[armstrda]

Well the DL manager says I'm getting it at 800 bytes/sec, but it's going like 1MB per second if you watch the xxxx out of 3GB number. My router says I'm pulling 17500Kb/s. Not sure what's up with the Download Manager. SHould be done in about 30 minutes.

 

[srp49ers]

why is the Ultimate version not on the site. the download link is grey'd out.

 

[Pantoot]

Originally posted by: srp49ers
why is the Ultimate version not on the site. the download link is grey'd out.

Click on "Top Downloads" right next to product keys.

 

[armstrda]

Doesn't seem the download from the Top DOwnloads works in Vista 64. I had to use XP to download them with that other download manager. The normal one seemed to work though. Strange...

 

[MBrown]

Originally posted by: mike2fix
In case you haven't seen it:

"Catastrophic Bug Found in Windows 7 RTM Build, Launch May be Delayed"


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LOL. Looks like they were watching Clarksons review of the Vectra before they wrote that title.

 

[corkyg]

Well, got my Win7 Ultimate ISO file this AM. I started the download - went to breakfast, and it was done when I got back. Ergo, I really can't comment on D/L speed.

As for the "catastrophic" bug, it is involved with running CHKDSK on a secondary drive - not something that I have done more than 2-3 times in 25 years. I am sure there will be an update that fixes it. I always run those things off line, outside of the OS anyway.

 

[Lanyap]

Originally posted by: srp49ers
why is the Ultimate version not on the site. the download link is grey'd out.

Both Ultimate and Enterprise are greyed out now in the regular download section but they were not yesterday afternoon. Mmmm. I did notice that the images are the same size (2,385.99 MB) for the 32bit version on all except Enterprise so I suspect the image is the same and the license key controls which version installs.

 

[akugami]

http://www.anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=630

Someone was asking about the different versions of Win7 and if they used different ISO's. Seems like aside from some sort of config file which tells the Win7 disc what to install, everything else is the same. Edit out that file and it'll install any version of Win7. Seems like a crappy way of differentiating different Versions of Windows 7.

I plan to edit the ISO as soon as I get both versions downloaded. I've encountered more than one person who had their Windows disc but they kept it in crap condition. Having a disc that will install any version helps troubleshooting and stuff tremendously.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

Got it today (x64 version) and installed.. it was super easy and took only about half an hour.

So far so good, everything i've installed worked and i also imported over a windows xp virtual machine that I had and everything is cool. love it so far, thumbs up! i will upgrade at home when i get a new pc.

Also, i timed the whole rebooting process until i could actually open a program and it was only 1 minute. pretty impressive!
windows update also runs a lot faster, and so does plugging in and ejecting hard drives and usb drives.

 

[BlueWeasel]

Originally posted by: akugami
http://www.anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=630

Someone was asking about the different versions of Win7 and if they used different ISO's. Seems like aside from some sort of config file which tells the Win7 disc what to install, everything else is the same. Edit out that file and it'll install any version of Win7. Seems like a crappy way of differentiating different Versions of Windows 7.

I plan to edit the ISO as soon as I get both versions downloaded. I've encountered more than one person who had their Windows disc but they kept it in crap condition. Having a disc that will install any version helps troubleshooting and stuff tremendously.

That's exactly what I did. Downloaded the Ultimate version, edited the file, recreated the ISO, burned it, and then I could choose which version (of the four) to install.