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I'm upgrading from Windows 7 RC Ultimate to Windows 7 RTM Ultimate. Now I know you're not supposed to do that, but I really don't want to clean install. So I did the "Beta to RC" trick, by copying the setup files onto my hard drive, and changing that config file.

In any case, the upgrade will complete successfully, but when it reboots, the bootscreen shows and the windows flag pulses, but after a couple of seconds, Windows will show a BSOD. I don't quite remember what it said, but it was something about a "k-somethingamajig-.sys" After it performs a dump, it'll try again once and after that fails, it'll rollback. This is something like the 4th time I've tried, and it's getting sorta frustrating, considering how long it takes to upgrade.

Any ideas?

I'll attach a dump file as soon as I find them.

In the meantime, here is my /windows/panther/setuperr.log

UPDATE: Okay, I have to confess that I just did something really stupid. When I tried to boot it, it started rolling back, so I cut the power, and when I tried again, it said, ovbiously, that a few things got corrupted. From what I can see, nothing major got corrupted, only a few videos, but it'll now just show up with a cmd window. Please oh please tell me there's a way to rollback.

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"Please oh please tell me there's a way to rollback." you backed up a drive image before pulling this stunt, didn't you? – Molly7244 Jan 30 '10 at 20:02
uh. well. no... right now, i'm running on my ubuntu dual boot, and i can say that pretty much everything is intact. is there a way to manually start rollback? – user26665 Jan 30 '10 at 23:12
well, i now know that the BSOD was caused by klim6.sys, which after a bit of googling, revealed itself to be a kaspersky driver. not a problem; I'll just uninstall since I didn't use it anyways – user26665 Jan 30 '10 at 23:20

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