Windows 7 Install help -SOLVED

[noah03ark]

assistance would be appreciated, as two months of searching for the answer has yielded nothing
i am trying to install windows 7 in an upgrade from vista 32-bit to windows 7-32bit
it unfortunately has to be an upgrade because windows vista backup is NOT working (i don't know why, but the option isn't there) so i don't have much choice in easily backing up the multitude of files there

like the title says: install will fail (essentially hang/freeze for hours on end) at the final step of "Completing Installation"

it freezes for hours, im forced to reboot and roll back to vista every time

i have no USB devices plugged in, if anyone thinks its that,
the CD was burned at a low speed and has successfully installed (as a test to confirm it wasn't the CD) on other machines/ a virtual machine in OSX

my computer is a MacBook Pro 3,1 (Santa Rosa)
nVidia geforce 8600m GT
4 Gigabytes of RAM
320 Gigabytes of hard drive space (split evenly betwixt Mac and Windows OSes)

2 months have gotten me nowhere... help?


thanks in advance,





noah

[dedafmonteur]

noah like we talked about on msn,

i am trying to install windows 7 now on my macbook pro and till now its all going good.

i think its the version you used to install it

[noah03ark]

I am happy to report a prompt "nevermind"


i tried the upgrade again, and this time it took

why?
i dont know


what did i do different?
replaced my upgraded 4GB RAM with my computer's original 2 GB

strange?
reasons?

thanks to for listening to my furious ramblings
and a prompt in your face to because the RAM theory worked, which you said it probably wouldn't...