Windows 7 taking 2 hours + to install. is this right?

shotgun · 29 May 2010 at 13:12

Mine took about 25 minutes to install W7 64bit and my PC is all most 3 years old now. 2 hours does sound way too long to me.

spirits247 · 29 May 2010 at 13:59

Windows 7 installs faster than XP I thought. The only time I had an install approaching anything more than 30 minutes was when a SATA optical drive ran very poorly and slowly in DOS.

ricky · 29 May 2010 at 14:23

Is the install cd scratched or damaged?

IKMS · 29 May 2010 at 14:32

XP installed a hell of a lot faster than Win7 for me. Maybe I should invest in a new CD drive.

alex24 · 29 May 2010 at 14:34

Yeah it should be quicker than that. My first suspicion would be bad media, I've had similar problems in the past with OS disks. Sometimes also some drives just plain don't like some CDs.

Yakyb · 29 May 2010 at 14:38

your not sharing the same IDE cable are you?

thingemajib · 29 May 2010 at 14:48

from sctatch, about 20 mins. as an upgrade, anything from 45 mins to 5 hours for me...

Shakeel · 29 May 2010 at 15:08

Yakyb said:
your not sharing the same IDE cable are you?

nopr, sata cable

spirits247 · 29 May 2010 at 15:18

Good point! thingemajib mentioned upgrade - I always install from scratch.

So I take it upgrade takes a lot longer. Are you performing an upgrade?

arknor · 29 May 2010 at 16:00

C64 said:
should take 30 mins max

even on his ancient comp?

i build a 1055t build yesterday and it took about 10 minutes before anything even started happening i was starting to question wether it was stuck or not