Windows 7 Upgrade: Part Deux
With the proper version of Windows 7 in-hand I set about upgrading my two computers.
The first was my home-built video editing computer running 32-bit Vista Ultimate. The process went flawlessly in about two hours. Really, a few clicks, no difficult choices and boom: Windows 7 Ultimate. I tried a few apps, like Adobe After Effects and one or two games with no hiccups.
OK, one hiccup. Sleep and hibernate no longer work but since even Vista was unable to restore my Creative EMU 8020 audio break-out box (although XP never had trouble) I'm used to doing a full power down.
My one-year-old HP Pavilion Dv7 laptop, running Vista Home Premium x64 turned out to be a different beast. Repeatedly the installation would hang at "Expanding Windows Files (18%)". I found a few references to this problem on the web but none of those solutions have made an impact.
Five (now six) retries have all failed at the exact same point in the upgrade. Repeated rollbacks have not been too kind to my laptop, either, as the last one required a run of chkdsk. I'm going to let this run for a few hours to see if it makes any progress at all.
UPDATE: Disabling the floppy drive from the boot options has solved the problem. Installation is continuing!