Upgrade from XP to Win7

On Wed, 9 Aug 2017 10:52:06 -0500, philo wrote:

That said, the OP seems to want to perform a clean install and cannot
boot from the DVD.

Either the DVD is defective or the DVD drive is defective is what I figure.

Or he has a Dell, some of them won't boot from 64-bit installation
DVDs, especially Linux ones. I have an Inspiron here that won't -
damned nuisance.
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On Wed, 9 Aug 2017 10:52:06 -0500, philo wrote:

On 08/02/2017 09:38 AM, Ken Blake wrote:
On Wed, 2 Aug 2017 02:39:18 -0300, pjp
wrote:


I have an Averatec 6100 laptop with 4 Gb ram, an 80 Gb hard disk with
50Gb free space using a Pentium 4 running at 3Gz used very
occassionally. It came with and is currently running XP updated as best
it can be. I have the original dvds came with system and have used them
once years ago so unless they've gone "bad" I can recover from almost
anything.

To make it more usefull I figured I'd upgrade it to running Windows 7.


An upgrade from XP to 7 is not possible. You have to do a clean
installation (or a two-step upgrade--first to Vista, then to 7--but
that doubles the risk of problems).




Now that I'm retired and have plenty of time to waste, I've upgraded
quite a few XP machines to Win7 going the "Visa first" route.

It has always worked for me but I would not bother unless the machine as
at least a 2ghz CPU and 2 -3 gigs of RAM


I've done it only once and it also worked for me without any problems.
But I was prepared to quit and do a clean installation if necessary.

Still, you never know; there's always a risk entailed, so I don't
recommend it.

In article , says...

On 08/02/2017 09:38 AM, Ken Blake wrote:
On Wed, 2 Aug 2017 02:39:18 -0300, pjp
wrote:


I have an Averatec 6100 laptop with 4 Gb ram, an 80 Gb hard disk with
50Gb free space using a Pentium 4 running at 3Gz used very
occassionally. It came with and is currently running XP updated as best
it can be. I have the original dvds came with system and have used them
once years ago so unless they've gone "bad" I can recover from almost
anything.

To make it more usefull I figured I'd upgrade it to running Windows 7.


An upgrade from XP to 7 is not possible. You have to do a clean
installation (or a two-step upgrade--first to Vista, then to 7--but
that doubles the risk of problems).




Now that I'm retired and have plenty of time to waste, I've upgraded
quite a few XP machines to Win7 going the "Visa first" route.

It has always worked for me but I would not bother unless the machine as
at least a 2ghz CPU and 2 -3 gigs of RAM


That said, the OP seems to want to perform a clean install and cannot
boot from the DVD.

Either the DVD is defective or the DVD drive is defective is what I figure.

No the optical drive is fine and the laptop will boot from a dvd. I've
reinstalled from factory restore disks so know this is the case. It'll
also boot to a Linux live dvd.

As I said, the Win7 dvd starts to load with opening logo appearing but
after an inordinate amount of time waiting on the first "blacked out"
screen it reboots without warning rather than continues. There's never
any sign on the internal hard disk that it was touched in any way so
there's no log file or anything like that to examine.

I've basically just given up on it and I'll let it die running XP If
nothing else it's still usefull for playing media of various types and
it could sit as a file server I imagine, e.g. host USB externals. Win7
upgrade advisor suggested there'd be some problems with drives and
seeing as Averatec no longer exists it's probably a futile effort
anyway.

pjp wrote:
In article , says...
On 08/02/2017 09:38 AM, Ken Blake wrote:
On Wed, 2 Aug 2017 02:39:18 -0300, pjp
wrote:

I have an Averatec 6100 laptop with 4 Gb ram, an 80 Gb hard disk with
50Gb free space using a Pentium 4 running at 3Gz used very
occassionally. It came with and is currently running XP updated as best
it can be. I have the original dvds came with system and have used them
once years ago so unless they've gone "bad" I can recover from almost
anything.

To make it more usefull I figured I'd upgrade it to running Windows 7.

An upgrade from XP to 7 is not possible. You have to do a clean
installation (or a two-step upgrade--first to Vista, then to 7--but
that doubles the risk of problems).



Now that I'm retired and have plenty of time to waste, I've upgraded
quite a few XP machines to Win7 going the "Visa first" route.

It has always worked for me but I would not bother unless the machine as
at least a 2ghz CPU and 2 -3 gigs of RAM


That said, the OP seems to want to perform a clean install and cannot
boot from the DVD.

Either the DVD is defective or the DVD drive is defective is what I figure.

No the optical drive is fine and the laptop will boot from a dvd. I've
reinstalled from factory restore disks so know this is the case. It'll
also boot to a Linux live dvd.

As I said, the Win7 dvd starts to load with opening logo appearing but
after an inordinate amount of time waiting on the first "blacked out"
screen it reboots without warning rather than continues. There's never
any sign on the internal hard disk that it was touched in any way so
there's no log file or anything like that to examine.

I've basically just given up on it and I'll let it die running XP If
nothing else it's still usefull for playing media of various types and
it could sit as a file server I imagine, e.g. host USB externals. Win7
upgrade advisor suggested there'd be some problems with drives and
seeing as Averatec no longer exists it's probably a futile effort
anyway.

If you "rip" that DVD, compute a SHA1 checksum, and Google the
value, do other sources of the DVD agree with your ripped value ?

I had one home-made WinXP ISO here which was bad. And after
making another, I got agreement with the accepted Internet value
of it.

*******

That, and memtest86+. Just in case it's a bad
memory location. A stuck-at fault could nicely
fail the same way every time. And the stuck-at location,
might not line up with any critical infrastructure on
your other OS.

I had a memory flaw in the memory on this machine,
in the OS area, and it did give quite a collection
of random symptoms. But, it always managed to start.

Paul

In article , lid says...

pjp wrote:
In article , says...
On 08/02/2017 09:38 AM, Ken Blake wrote:
On Wed, 2 Aug 2017 02:39:18 -0300, pjp
wrote:

I have an Averatec 6100 laptop with 4 Gb ram, an 80 Gb hard disk with
50Gb free space using a Pentium 4 running at 3Gz used very
occassionally. It came with and is currently running XP updated as best
it can be. I have the original dvds came with system and have used them
once years ago so unless they've gone "bad" I can recover from almost
anything.

To make it more usefull I figured I'd upgrade it to running Windows 7.

An upgrade from XP to 7 is not possible. You have to do a clean
installation (or a two-step upgrade--first to Vista, then to 7--but
that doubles the risk of problems).



Now that I'm retired and have plenty of time to waste, I've upgraded
quite a few XP machines to Win7 going the "Visa first" route.

It has always worked for me but I would not bother unless the machine as
at least a 2ghz CPU and 2 -3 gigs of RAM


That said, the OP seems to want to perform a clean install and cannot
boot from the DVD.

Either the DVD is defective or the DVD drive is defective is what I figure.

No the optical drive is fine and the laptop will boot from a dvd. I've
reinstalled from factory restore disks so know this is the case. It'll
also boot to a Linux live dvd.

As I said, the Win7 dvd starts to load with opening logo appearing but
after an inordinate amount of time waiting on the first "blacked out"
screen it reboots without warning rather than continues. There's never
any sign on the internal hard disk that it was touched in any way so
there's no log file or anything like that to examine.

I've basically just given up on it and I'll let it die running XP If
nothing else it's still usefull for playing media of various types and
it could sit as a file server I imagine, e.g. host USB externals. Win7
upgrade advisor suggested there'd be some problems with drives and
seeing as Averatec no longer exists it's probably a futile effort
anyway.

Unlikely given the dvd has been used a number of times already to do
fresh installs of Win7 Home Premium. I made a copy when first got disk
(habit and know it also works fine.