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From: Peter Foldes on 19 Jan 2010 13:35
Jonathan

Hope you are not trying to upgrade Windows XP to Windows 7 by using the Windows 7
install disk. Since you posted to a Windows XP newsgroup and as you describing your
issue it sure sounds like that. You CANNOT upgrade an existing Windows XP install
with a Windows 7 disk. It must be a clean reformat and by that I mean that you have
to get rid of your XP on your computer completely on your hard drive must be clean
before you can install Windows 7

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"Jonathan Crawford" <jc(a)jcrawford.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> I am just installing Windows seven and have been sitting waiting
> for something to happen for the past hour and a half, and the line
> telling you how much progress you have made has not moved on bit.
>
>
> jc
>
>
>
>

From: EW on 19 Jan 2010 19:25


"Peter Foldes" <okf22(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Jonathan
>
> Hope you are not trying to upgrade Windows XP to Windows 7 by using the
> Windows 7 install disk. Since you posted to a Windows XP newsgroup and as
> you describing your issue it sure sounds like that. You CANNOT upgrade an
> existing Windows XP install with a Windows 7 disk. It must be a clean
> reformat and by that I mean that you have to get rid of your XP on your
> computer completely on your hard drive must be clean before you can
> install Windows 7
>

Seems like the installation would inform the user of that!

EW


From: Peter Foldes on 21 Jan 2010 15:28
EW

Not necessarily. If the OP is using a Retail version of Windows 7 and trying to
Upgrade XP by putting in the Win 7 Retail install CD then it would do exactly as the
OP posted.
We have tried this when we worked the Beta

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"EW" <ewyatt_del(a)excite.com> wrote in message news:_5s5n.373$PE6.64(a)newsfe10.iad...
>
>
> "Peter Foldes" <okf22(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:uSGLfYTmKHA.2592(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> Jonathan
>>
>> Hope you are not trying to upgrade Windows XP to Windows 7 by using the Windows 7
>> install disk. Since you posted to a Windows XP newsgroup and as you describing
>> your issue it sure sounds like that. You CANNOT upgrade an existing Windows XP
>> install with a Windows 7 disk. It must be a clean reformat and by that I mean
>> that you have to get rid of your XP on your computer completely on your hard
>> drive must be clean before you can install Windows 7
>>
>
> Seems like the installation would inform the user of that!
>
> EW
>
>

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