Am getting ready to try windows 7

Windrunner · § #1 10-22-2009, 08:38 PM

So, I waited until it officially launched before I even considered it, but I'm now using acronis to back up my vista partition to one of my drives and will be installing it and tweaking it this weekend.

Here's what I'll be doing:
1.Using acronis true image to clone vista to a seperate drive, modifying boot.ini to accomodate it

2. Upgrade install of vista pro to 7 pro

3. Spending the weekend tweaking the 7 pro and seeing if it's feasible to upgrade, and dropping back into vista if / when I have issues.

Anyone have any ideas that may save me some headaches?

(Let me put it this way: My start menu has...104+50 something odd folders and icons in it from everything I install and run, it's going to be a royal pain to try to reinstall it all, so I'm trying something else first. Oh, my desktop has a 17x12 block of icons on it too, heh heh.

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Windrunner · § #2 10-23-2009, 12:30 AM

Thanks to the ultra generic irql_not_less_or_equal error, I'm now watching it 'roll back' the installation. Needless to say I'm pi*censored*'d.

Any advice?

Windrunner · § #3 10-23-2009, 06:37 PM

*Bump* Tonight I'll be taking debugging tools after the memory dumps following this guide: http://blogs.technet.com/markrussino...0/3174871.aspx

Will post results after that.

**Bryan** · § #4 10-23-2009, 07:27 PM

At what point was the rollback occurring?

Windrunner · § #5 10-23-2009, 07:48 PM

Bryan, it appeared to be at the very final part of the installation. I believe it was the second reboot of an upgrade install. There was a "Windows 7" and a "Windows 7 rollback" in my boot menu.

I lost the memory dump, likely because my page file was 128 megs and the rest was on my RAID array..likely why I had issues with my RAID array ( it had to rebuild last night )

Here's what I've done so far to try to fix it, am about to try again. (It's from my page of notes of what I need to do after the upgrade )

Code:

Uninstalled:
Alcohol 120%
Manycam virtual webcam
asus xonar D2X drivers + program
Rivatuner
EVGA precision ( Core: 753 memory: 119 fan speed: 74 )

Removed:
sptd.sys
xonar d2x
atk0110 acpi utility

Misc changes: 
Put page file on PATA drive instead of RAID array
Unhooked RAID array

Windrunner · § #6 10-23-2009, 09:04 PM

Crashed again, can't find the dump, am on microsoft technet here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/...6-a371116915ff

Brandito · § #7 10-23-2009, 10:11 PM

i would do a clean install since you can always boot back into your vista install anyways.

i bet you'll find you don't use the vast majority of the apps you have installed currently on any sort of regular basis.

so just install the main stuff you always use, and install less used apps as you need them.

also you can use the files and settings transfer wizard to copy the majority of your settings for your apps from your vista install to windows. then when you install the apps you use most most should be setup as you had them on vista.

Windrunner · § #8 10-23-2009, 11:03 PM

It isn't neccesarily the downloadable freeware / payware apps I'm worried about, but the pain-in-the-butt games. I have alcohol 120% to make installation a bit easier but I still have to go dig them out of my closet to find all the CD-keys.

I'm trying the upgrade again and will be checking my newly cleared event logs if it crashes again, but after that I'm clean installing.

Windrunner · § #9 10-24-2009, 02:08 AM

No crash dump, nothing in the event logs. As much as I'd like to be able to do this as an upgrade, it's not going to happen.

Oh well. Am booting to the disk, might try an upgrade/repair install there if the option presents itself, but am moving to do a clean install and end tonight with my firewall and e-mail set up.