Windows 7 upgrade time: 30min to 20hours

[Cratermaker]

Might want to bring a snack, or pack for an over-nighter. It all depends:

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/09/microsoft-upgrade-to-windows-7-can-take-up-to-a-day.ars

[Snuffy]

IF, and when I go to 7 ... It'll be on a new drive with a fresh install.

[Trans_23]

IF, and when I go to 7 ... It'll be on a new drive with a fresh install.
Same here.

[Cratermaker]

Yeah, but I remember the when I had to clean install XP. Same thing with a clean win 7 install: install all aps, copy data, download and apply patches. Something like 20-50 reboots in there too! Still took 12-16 hours to get everything back "the way it was". The clean install is going to take a while too.

[exc141ac]

The install --
and then adding back all the software.

Couple of new systems back --
spent the weekend adding back most of the software --
and the next day the new disk crashed.

Went faster the second time.