Library Upgrade in Progress...

I upgraded from Beta 4 to LR 1 and was not really intimidated when LR told me that this might take "a few minutes".
Twelve hours later, with LR using up 2/3 of my RAM and up to 98 of my CPU, I stopped this via the task manager.
I then rebooted my PC and tried to open Lightroom again. Now "Library upgrade is in progress" again...
This was about 8 hours ago.
Admittedly, the photographs indexed (many are high resolution scans of slides) take about a terabyte disk storage, but the database itself should be much smaller.
Anything, I can do to speed up the process?
Or will the new lightroom just not run on my system?
Laurenz

OK, I just returned to my PC after a good night's sleep.
Library Upgrade is still "in Progress", about 1 % of the progress bar is blue.
To me this looks as though LR was really having a problem with the library Beta 4 created.
If there is no other way then re-importing everything, I'd even do that, but there's no way I could do anything like this from within the application (as it won't open).
Is there anyway, I could do this from outside?
One thing: I did not install Lightroom at the default location - I have a special drive for all programmes and used the option to install it there.
Worked fine with beta 4 - might this be part of the problem, or is it just the number of pictures referenced?

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