Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Windows 7 "Upgrade was not successful"

When trying to upgrade from Vista to Windows 7, the installer gets up to the last step, and then gives me the message "The upgrade was no successful. Your previous version of Windows is being restored." What is with this? Others (Albeit few) have commented with the same issue, and report this occurring even after a clean install.


It's very annoying because it doesn't give any reason for this problem. I can't believe that some group of dedicated developers over at Microsoft thought it would be a good idea to say "well, if the upgrader doesnt work, lets just not give them any reason for the error and tell them they're gonna go back to Vista"


What kind of solution am I supposed to come up with. O.K. I bought Windows 7, it says it's unsucessful, now what? Am I supposed to put the disk into my drawer and wait for Windows 8?

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