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| Thread ID: 125577 | 2012-07-06 23:47:00 | Upgrading from Vista to Win HP | curly (6655) | Press F1 |
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| 1286514 | 2012-07-08 05:24:00 | The link worked at the time,have another go here www.mydigitallife.info |
Lawrence (2987) | ||
| 1286515 | 2012-08-15 23:50:00 | if you are having problems with vista, instal;ling HP as an upgrade over the top wont do any good, you'll simply be putting a good OS ( W7) ontop of a damaged one, it wont fix the problems. You are better doing a full reinstall with eh upgrade DVD - wiping the drive and starting from fresh after saving all your data etc. You can do a full install From a upgrade DVD, you just need to do a couple of steps that are not quite normal in a install. Heres how - works perfectly www.mydigitallife.info Workaround 3 works quicker. Firstly wanted to thank U guys, as now the laptop functions (almost) as it did the day i bought it :-) By the way using option 3 worked a treat ! However I need to tidy up a couple of things. When it boot up it goes into Windows Boot Manager, Option 1 is open win 7, option 2 is open win Vista. Option 2 does not work, so is there a way to bypass the Win Boot Manager and just have win 7 open normally ? When I did the upgrade to Win 7, using option 3, I noted that all of the programs in Vista were moved into windows.old. I tried firstly to open some of the windows.old files but nothing happened. Is there a way to at least move some of the .old files back to win 7 ? Prior to the upgrade, I also did an external HDD backup of C and D drives and now wonder if I can somehow move some files back to win 7. However it won't be the end of the world if it can't be done :-) Anyway... Again thanks for the sucessful outcome |
curly (6655) | ||
| 1286516 | 2012-08-16 04:22:00 | Firstly wanted to thank U guys, as now the laptop functions (almost) as it did the day i bought it :-) By the way using option 3 worked a treat ! However I need to tidy up a couple of things. When it boot up it goes into Windows Boot Manager, Option 1 is open win 7, option 2 is open win Vista. Option 2 does not work, so is there a way to bypass the Win Boot Manager and just have win 7 open normally ? Yep, download EasyBCD and delete the entry from there under 'edit boot menu'. |
sahilcc7 (15483) | ||
| 1286517 | 2012-08-19 08:17:00 | Yep, download EasyBCD and delete the entry from there under 'edit boot menu'. Great one, it worked a treat, thanks |
curly (6655) | ||
| 1286518 | 2012-08-19 08:33:00 | If you upgrade, you might still have problems that you had with vista. Custom install deletes programs but files are kept in windows.old folder. Yeah, I found that out, but a fresh/ clean/new install corrected that. Vista was hanging onto life by just a thread ! I noted the files in windows.old and made an unsucessful attempt to open a couple in windows 7, but win 7 didn't like the idea. Not that there is many I need, but how might I put them into win 7 ? |
curly (6655) | ||
| 1286519 | 2012-08-19 09:10:00 | What sort of files? programs will need to be re installed, data files can just be moved to their new home | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1286520 | 2012-08-20 07:53:00 | What sort of files? programs will need to be re installed, data files can just be moved to their new home Thanks Gary67, that just what I was looking for - now to do it ! |
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