SOLVED Win 7 Upgrade freezes at 59% Trans Files

[Kymv]

I am having issues getting Win 7 to install from Vista on my Inspiron 1720 (32 bit).

I have read about several issues that could be causing the problem. I have tried to upgrade from Vista to Win 7 three times with no luck, it always gets to the last step of transferring files 59% and then freezes up.


Here is what I have done:

- updated bios A09 (is that what I need to have? I see other postings regarding A12.) I did the bios update using MS Explorer, not Firefox


-Done something with msconfig to do a clean boot - I deselected everything that isn't MS and left it that way.



-Downloaded the most recent Nvidia driver



I am running out of things to try. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

 

[Elmer BeFuddled]

Hi Kymv and Welcome to the forum.

FYI

The general consensus, you will find, is that "upgrading" to Windows 7 in general, is a time bomb waiting to happen.

It's much better to do a clean install of Windows 7. This can be done with an upgrade disc. See this excellent article by Paul Thurrott on how to go about it.

 

[Kymv]

Thanks!

Thank you! I tried your suggestion and it worked great. I was able to activate with no problem too. A much more efficient way to do this!

The only question I have now is that when I boot up the computer it's asking if I want to bring up Vista or Windows 7. I do not know much about partioned hard drives, but I am assuming this is an issue that has something to do with that? I would like to completely wipe out Vista, any suggestions?

My computer shows 2 drives, c as recovery (which I didn't notice it was called recovery until today) that only has 480 mb of free space of 9.99 GB and d as the OS with 59.8 GB free of 99.2 GB. Not sure if this matters, but I somehow think it relates.

Thanks again!

 

[Nibiru2012]

Hello Kymv! Welcome to the Window 7 forums website.

During the Windows 7 install when you got to the screen showing the hard drive(s) and related partitions, you should have deleted ALL partitions and done a true clean install.

Now you have the dual-boot situation. I recommend that you go and do a full clean install, deleting partitions and then creating new ones.

 

[Kymv]

THANKS!!

Thank you so much for your advice. I did exactly what you said and it worked, no issues at all. I entered the product key manually too based on the earlier article that was suggested and had no issues whatsoever. Thank you, thank you, thank you!