{"id":100,"date":"2009-08-06T21:53:48","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T05:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?p=100"},"modified":"2009-12-02T08:24:23","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T16:24:23","slug":"upgrade-windows-7-beta-build-7000-to-windows-7-rc-build-7100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?p=100","title":{"rendered":"Upgrade Windows 7 Beta Build 7000 to Windows 7 RC Build 7100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/windows-7\/download.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Windows 7 RC is out<\/a>, and the official party line from Redmond is that you won\u2019t be able to upgrade your January build 7000 beta in place (or any build prior to 7077 for that matter).\u00a0 Bill wants you to perform a clean install. \u00a0 Turns out that you <strong>CAN<\/strong> upgrade a 7000 install with a few fiddly steps&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Windows 7 RC (7100) will only allow upgrades from build 7077 upwards<\/strong>. For any older builds, running the upgrade will fail.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tudy.ro\/2009\/05\/04\/upgrade-windows-7-beta-build-7000-to-windows-7-rc-build-7100\/\">I found a writeup on what to do here<\/a>.\u00a0 I liked it so much I have copied it here (with a few edits).\u00a0 Tudy says to:<\/p>\n<p>1. Download the Windows 7 RC build 7100 .iso.<\/p>\n<p>2. Burn ISO on DVD (or use any ISO file mounting tool, I used <a href=\"https:\/\/www.magiciso.com\/\">MagicISO<\/a>) and then copy all files and folders to your local hard drive.<\/p>\n<p>3. Now access the <strong>\u201csources\u201d <\/strong>directory within the location where you copied the Windows 7 files &amp; folders.<\/p>\n<p>4. Open the file <strong>cversion.ini<\/strong> in your favorite text editor (e.g. Notepad).<\/p>\n<p>5. Change <strong>minclient<\/strong> from 7077 to 7000.\u00a0 This value is apparently the build number that the installer checks against.\u00a0 It has to be less than or equal to your build number.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>6. Save <strong>cversion.ini.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>7. Run the installer from the copied directory.<\/p>\n<p>The install process will reboot multiple times during the upgrade process.\u00a0 This is normal.\u00a0 It worked for me, and apparently lots of other people too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 7 RC is out, and the official party line from Redmond is that you won\u2019t be able to upgrade your January build 7000 beta in place (or any build prior to 7077 for that matter).\u00a0 Bill wants you to&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?p=100\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}