Calum Veteran Posted May 5, 2009 Veteran Share Posted May 5, 2009 I am VERY surprised how fast the RC installed. Was that with a clean installation or the work-around upgrade? To the people who responded to my earlier question, thank you :) However, I was referring to mounting the ISO on a virtual hardrive (created by my ISO program) and then installing Windows 7 off of that, rather than burning to a disk. Has anybody in this particular thread done a work-around upgrade? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/767792-windows-7-rc-download-early/page/8/#findComment-590946366 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee G. Veteran Posted May 5, 2009 Veteran Share Posted May 5, 2009 I am VERY surprised how fast the RC installed. Yeah, I was surprised at how fast it installed too. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/767792-windows-7-rc-download-early/page/8/#findComment-590946368 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+kpo6969 Subscriber¹ Posted May 5, 2009 Subscriber¹ Share Posted May 5, 2009 so is this EXACTLY the same as the version that leaked last week?i know they both says 7100, but im curious if there is some minor additions. Exactly the same. I can atleast tell you the iso size and name are exactly the same. 7100 RC x86 compared Official MS RC 7100 on the left in the screenshot, leaked RC 7100 on the right. They both look the same to me.. :yes: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/767792-windows-7-rc-download-early/page/8/#findComment-590946382 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee G. Veteran Posted May 5, 2009 Veteran Share Posted May 5, 2009 To the people who responded to my earlier question, thank you :) However, I was referring to mounting the ISO on a virtual hardrive (created by my ISO program) and then installing Windows 7 off of that, rather than burning to a disk. I installed Windows 7 RC by mounting it on a virtual drive using Daemon Tools Lite. I did a clean install, and it worked perfectly. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/767792-windows-7-rc-download-early/page/8/#findComment-590946384 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denis W. Veteran Posted May 5, 2009 Veteran Share Posted May 5, 2009 11.6 MB/s here on my home broadband.*grin* I might go down to campus and verify the speeds while downloading the 64-bit build. I think I have seen download speed spikes into 20+ MB/s. For reference, I remember getting the 64-bit build within 3 minutes 37 seconds. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/767792-windows-7-rc-download-early/page/8/#findComment-590946386 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minifig Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 Was that with a clean installation or the work-around upgrade? And hello from RC Candidate #1 everyone. :) I did a fresh clean install. 100% fresh. Kinda nice to see how nice it looks when it's freshly installed. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/767792-windows-7-rc-download-early/page/8/#findComment-590946388 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToneKnee Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 Ha, I hope the people who claimed that the leak version would be different from the official version feel really stupid now. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/767792-windows-7-rc-download-early/page/8/#findComment-590946686 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lalalawawawa Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 Downloading. :woot: Status: Only 11 hours remaining. :( Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/767792-windows-7-rc-download-early/page/8/#findComment-590946692 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael S Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 Windows7.com got changed, saying RC is available. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/767792-windows-7-rc-download-early/page/8/#findComment-590946722 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xXCHAOSXx Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 Downloading. :woot:Status: Only 11 hours remaining. :( Huh? Dial up? :wacko: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/767792-windows-7-rc-download-early/page/8/#findComment-590946724 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Canadian Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 I've decided I'll frag my XP partition -- I saved the save & .CFG files from Scrapland -- and will install Win7 x64 to that...see you in a while. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/767792-windows-7-rc-download-early/page/8/#findComment-590946882 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyDX Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 Currently downloading the Japanese RC1, I have it in English already but I always wanted a Japanese one, call me an Anime jerk if you like :p (on a side note, anyone had problems with 403 errors when downloading? I started the download before school with DownThemAll and now when I came back the download was back at 0% Error 403 and unresumable :blink: ) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/767792-windows-7-rc-download-early/page/8/#findComment-590946984 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Canadian Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 Win7U killed my bootloader, so I cannot boot into WinVHP...how do I reinstall the bootloader so that I can boot into either OS; as I have games, etc. on my WinVHP partition?! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/767792-windows-7-rc-download-early/page/8/#findComment-590947234 Share on other sites More sharing options...
X@vier Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 I got my copy, now I'm just wondering how many times can I use the same product key, is it just like the beta where u can use it up to 3 times? ~X Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/767792-windows-7-rc-download-early/page/8/#findComment-590947246 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xXCHAOSXx Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 I got my copy, now I'm just wondering how many times can I use the same product key, is it just like the beta where u can use it up to 3 times?~X I used my key at least 7 times.... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/767792-windows-7-rc-download-early/page/8/#findComment-590947256 Share on other sites More sharing options...
X@vier Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 I used my key at least 7 times.... oh cool, thnx for the reply ;) ~X Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/767792-windows-7-rc-download-early/page/8/#findComment-590947276 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Canadian Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 Win7U killed my bootloader, so I cannot boot into WinVHP...how do I reinstall the bootloader so that I can boot into either OS; as I have games, etc. on my WinVHP partition?! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/767792-windows-7-rc-download-early/page/8/#findComment-590947334 Share on other sites More sharing options...
way2quik Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 Will I lose any data if I partition an existing drive? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/767792-windows-7-rc-download-early/page/8/#findComment-590947556 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin. Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 Has anyone ever mounted a Windows 7 ISO to a virtual drive? I don't have any disks and I mounted the beta to a virtual drive and it seemed to work perfectly.I'd like to know others' experience in this area please as I am hoping to do this again with the release candidate. I installed the RC using this method and it intalled without any problems. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/767792-windows-7-rc-download-early/page/8/#findComment-590947592 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Udedenkz Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 EDIT: You can install it from a Virtua Drive? So it installs bootloader and unzips itself inside Windows then restarts and continues installation? Cool. Anyone tried installing the RC on a USB Hard Drive? I will install it once I get home (I forgot my power cable @ home ):) Downloaded it overnight! Weird though - I had to retry the download a few times and it gave me a different key each time... :/ I only needed one - I guess they have many many to hand out. ?? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/767792-windows-7-rc-download-early/page/8/#findComment-590947626 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad. Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 Now downloading at 2.3MB/s, thank you OP. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/767792-windows-7-rc-download-early/page/8/#findComment-590947628 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FordGT Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 My computer didn't even boot from the DVD. I'll try burning it again. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/767792-windows-7-rc-download-early/page/8/#findComment-590947936 Share on other sites More sharing options...
callummr Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 My computer didn't even boot from the DVD. I'll try burning it again. You had it first in the boot order and all, right? I'd guess you've done this kinda thing before if you're installing this.. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/767792-windows-7-rc-download-early/page/8/#findComment-590947950 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jbenisek Posted May 5, 2009 Author Share Posted May 5, 2009 You had it first in the boot order and all, right?I'd guess you've done this kinda thing before if you're installing this.. Up on Connect.microsoft.com now too Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/767792-windows-7-rc-download-early/page/8/#findComment-590948086 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FordGT Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 It was the DVD, I'm typing this from Windows 7 RC! In Firefox of course! I started installing at around 12:30 and it finished at 12:50. Pretty damn quick. I don't really like the new wallpaper/theme changer. I know a wallpaper isn't a major thing but I like my 22 inch monitor to look it's best. In Vista, you could choose wallpapers separately but where is that in Windows 7? It was there in the Beta. All I see are themes. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/767792-windows-7-rc-download-early/page/8/#findComment-590948210 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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