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I've been trying to upgrade from the Windows 7 Beta to build 7068, but I can't get any DVD with that build to boot, and trying to upgrade within Windows gives me the following error:

"An error prevented a required compliance check from completing. Cancel the installation and try upgrading again."

Searching Google for the error text returns only non-English results. Does anybody have an idea to fix this without doing a clean install. I really don't want to go to all that effort reinstalling games and other programs just for an upgraded beta.
 
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Originally Posted by Flux View Post
I believe all Win7 Betas are fresh installs only. Correct me if I'm wrong. At least I have never been successful in upgrading between betas, always had to do fresh installs.

Flux
no you can upgrade from version to version. theres even a usb option so ya dont have to keep burning dvds.

on a side note i herd a newer version then 7077 has leaked. you may just want to look for the most current version to install.
 
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Awesome, I just got the error now trying to upgrade to the RC, and this is one of the best results on Google for the error... Does anyone have any ideas?

EDIT: Event Viewer doesn't show anything, and I tried removing all the compatibility checks from the sources, but it still does it. I can't think of anything else, and Microsoft probably won't understand a generic error like it.
 
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Originally Posted by mentholmoose View Post
Awesome, I just got the error now trying to upgrade to the RC, and this is one of the best results on Google for the error... Does anyone have any ideas?

EDIT: Event Viewer doesn't show anything, and I tried removing all the compatibility checks from the sources, but it still does it. I can't think of anything else, and Microsoft probably won't understand a generic error like it.
http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/200...xperience.aspx

cversion.ini needs adjusting.

Hope it helps

SIW2
 
Discussion starter · #9 ·
Not really, because that's not actually the issue I'm having. After I modified cversion.ini it still came up with this error. If you'd read the whole thread you'd notice I had this issue with other builds, too, so that is definitely not the problem.
 
Discussion starter · #10 ·
I finally found a fix for this today, if anyone is interested. It worked for me, but I don't know if it'll work for any other setups. The problem I had was that the partition I used for Windows 7 wasn't marked as the boot partition, because I was using another bootloader to load OS X, Ubuntu, and Windows. The solution was to make the Windows 7 partition the boot partition, restart Windows 7 just to be safe, and run the upgrade process again.

You'll have to modify cversion.ini if you're attempting an upgrade that normally wouldn't be allowed by Microsoft, as this only fixes the one error. I hope this helps someone else.
 
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I had the same problem and changed Win 7 partition to active using Windows 7 Disk Management Tool: My Computer - Administer - Disk Management - Right Click the Win7 partition and change to active.

Restart Win7 and run update again. Later you will have to recover multiple boot if you had Mac OS insatalled...

To recover rEFiT multiple boot, reboot with Mac OS USB disk inserted and boot in 'single user mode' pressing F8 when the loader appears and typing '-s' in command prompt.
Then type in command prompt:
fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0
flag 2
update
write
quit
reboot
If it doesn't work, return to 'single user mode' assign flag 1, reboot and re-assign flag 2.
Now, when rebooting rEFiT gets activated and Mac OS and Windows boot options are displayed.
 
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I was getting this exact same error when attempting to upgrade Win 7 Home Premium to Windows 8 Consumer Preview. I was using a different bootloader as well, so simply marking Active my Windows 7 partition (no reboot needed!) allowed the setup to install. Thanks!
 
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