windows 7 upgrade question

[Catamer]

this product works great for me and my laptop, I've used it a few times and the software that comes with it. the software will only work with the adapter but makes any SATA drive look like a USB drive.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812161004&cm_re=apricorn_a dapter-_-12-161-004-_-
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copy your O/S to your new drive like the SSD using this software, it can resize partition if your new drive is larger than your old drive.
once that is done, swap drives out and then attempt your upgrade on the new drive, if it fails to upgrade properly you can ... start over with the old drive and make another copy or you can do a fresh install on the new drive and use the adapter to copy files off your old drive.

[Sam DeathWalker]

Confusion results because the correct term is "in place upgrade".

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/0...art-reference/



I had to do a clean install cause I moved from Win2000 ....

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Confusion results because the correct term is "in place upgrade".

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/0...art-reference/



I had to do a clean install cause I moved from Win2000 ....

Damn that chart....damn it to hell. You should have seen the test matrix we had to go through to confirm that during Win7 beta. Multiply that times 11 different product lines (commercial desktops only; didn't even count consumer or mobile) and then multiply again for various hardware configs within those product families. I think if one of us had to do another upgrade test, we'd have jumped out of our 6th floor windows.

[Apps]

Apps, which of the above did you do? Or did you add other steps in there? Upgrade has a very specific definition for Windows OS installs. "Migrating" data is both more complicated and not as reliable. Otherwise, all CDs would be labeled "Upgrade" CDs, n'est-ce pas?

This one.

Example 3:

• Start with an install of XP (apps, docs, configs, blah blah)
• Run "Files and Settings Transfer Wizard" and backup all your stuff to USB.
• Insert Win7 CD
• Win7 asks you for some basic info and you click GO
• Come back later and the OS install is complete. NO apps work, nothing still exists. Everything is moved into a "Windows.old" folder.
• Run the "Windows Easy Transfer" wizard and restore the backup you made before installing Win7.
• All your apps and settings work again.
• This is technically an "upgrade" but one that is either A) not well understood by most users or B) not 100% functional at transferring apps properly.

Realizing you simplified this just for the sake of internet posts. Yet, there is a virus check in safe mode prior to all of this. There is also a driver diagnostics via internet from Microsoft that is conducted to ensure all the latest drivers etc are in working order to make the transfter smooth.

I never said it was easy. Matter of fact, I said it wasnt easy. I also had to update one set of drivers no matter what for the MoBo, and also updated the drivers for the wireless keyboard.

Other than that. ^^ Above.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

About what I figured. I suspect some folks (even among we multiboxers, we happy few...) will have insurmountable issues with that scenario.