micro Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 15 min via USB drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightmarE D Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 Around 15 minutes for the clean install Around 35 minutes for an upgrade install Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Freeman Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 Smth like 12~14 minutes, if I recon correctly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
null_ Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 ~15 minutes on my Dell Studio 15 laptop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuckeratlarge Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 About 25 minutes for 64bit Home Premium. It was that fast I thought it was missing something. Put the DVD in the drive and booted up and it asked whether I wanted to upgrade or Custom install. I chose custom so I could do a fresh install. I pressed the Format button, in times past where it would have taken hours to format the drive, it took seconds. Then the actual install was over quicker than I thought possible. Nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsupersonic Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 14 minutes for 64-bit Pro. Core i7 860, 8GB RAM, 500GB 7200RPM 32MB Cache HDD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiddingguy Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 around 15-20 mins specs in sig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zmijutin Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 Roughly 20mins on machine in sig. I had same resault with Vista. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klownicle Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 12minutes, via a blu ray drive onto a raid 0 raptor 10k 150x2. Install Step 1 to Desktop The hd actually got a 6.0 in the ratings heh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killmaster84 Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 Fresh install about 25mins, upgrade 1 hour to 2 hours wasn't here for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Tyranade Subscriber² Posted October 23, 2009 Subscriber² Share Posted October 23, 2009 Windows 7 Ultimate took me about 15 minuets from boot as I booted the install of a empty internal HDD and made it bootable so it copied fast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mega Goatlord Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 It seems best way to go about this is to create a bootable flash disk and install from it. I noticed it greatly improved the installation time on my second laptop. 12 mins down from 24 mins. 24 mins was on the first laptop. Both laptops have identical hardware. It's also helpful if you own different versions of 7. One can copy the installation files to the flash drive, delete the ei.cfg file in the 'sources' folder, and it will ask which version you want to install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Septimus Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 15-20 mins. Clean install. An upgrade took about 25 mins on a Vista Ultimate 64 box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jygoro Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 My motherborad doesn't support usb bootable so I use Daemon tools intead and it takes 25 minutes on my 5 years old PC. (Custom install) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevember Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 7 or 8 minutes fresh install to desktop. SSD RAID 0, i7, 6GB ram, installed from USB stick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rakeshishere Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 Windows 7 Ultimate 64Bit Fresh install- 20mins Upgrade Install (from Vista SP2 with 50GB Partition) - 5hrs :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunkymunky Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 From USB key on my laptop it took around 15 - 20 minutes. From DVD it took around 25 minutes, slower file copy being the only reason it was slower. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Matthew S. Subscriber² Posted October 24, 2009 Subscriber² Share Posted October 24, 2009 Roughly 15-20 minutes clean install from DVD (I love my LG drives) of 7 HP x64 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xp1ode Posted October 24, 2009 Share Posted October 24, 2009 10-15min installed from a flash drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
way2quik Posted October 24, 2009 Share Posted October 24, 2009 It didn't take too long to install W7 Pro. No more than 30mins, but definitely around 15-20min. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pharos Posted October 24, 2009 Share Posted October 24, 2009 9 minutes 64GB OCZ AGILITY SSD + USB Flash drive FTW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roadrunna Posted October 24, 2009 Share Posted October 24, 2009 Clean install: 15 minutes including formatting previous windows install! Q6600, 2GB, 8800GTS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yusuf M. Veteran Posted October 24, 2009 Veteran Share Posted October 24, 2009 I performed an in-place upgrade from Windows Vista Ultimate x64 to Windows 7 Ultimate x64. It took about 30 minutes on my WD Caviar Black 640 GB SATA hard drive (WD6401AALS). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
t0mbi Posted October 24, 2009 Share Posted October 24, 2009 So is the retail version that just came out the exact same as the RTM that leaked a few months back? I put that RTM on my laptop about 2 weeks ago. Im getting the Home Premium for free and hopefully plan to just activate my RTM version with my legit details. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lnmnky Posted October 24, 2009 Share Posted October 24, 2009 Took an hour. It's weird. I've got a Quad core and 2 gig of ram, sata HDD. The "expanding files" took about 45 minutes on its own. I'm wondering if my IDE DVD drive was slowing it down, or maybe my boot drive (180gig sata) should have been plugged into an earlier port. It's in sata 6 at the moment. Or maybe my laser is crusty or something. It obviously got there eventually, but was so slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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