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| Thread ID: 113829 | 2010-11-05 16:53:00 | upgrading laptops | lostsoul62 (16011) | Press F1 |
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| 1150562 | 2010-11-05 16:53:00 | I have a couple of laptops with XP and Vista so I thought of getting the Windows 7 family pack upgrade. I never upgraded a laptop before so I thought I would ask if there might be any differance in upgrading a laptop vs a desktop? | lostsoul62 (16011) | ||
| 1150563 | 2010-11-05 17:12:00 | [Edit] No, there won't be a difference with regards to upgrading Windows 7. | Renmoo (66) | ||
| 1150564 | 2010-11-05 20:03:00 | Depending on what upgrades you want to do. If its only the OS, then no there's no real difference. If its a hardware upgrade, the only real basic upgrades are more RAM and HDD change. Check to see how much RAM they will accept. The Vista Laptop should be powerful enough if it runs Vista OK now. XP You will need to reinstall from fresh - Officially XP cant be upgraded to W7. In fact you would be better off doing fresh installs on Both, you will have a better OS for it. One other thing -- Check to see if the hardware can take 64Bit, if it cant you will have to use 32Bit. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1150565 | 2010-11-05 20:21:00 | Do a compatibility test first, you may find that you dont have/cant get drivers for some of your hardware, especially on your laptop/s. windows.microsoft.com Make sure not to overwrite your recovery partitions (or make recovery disks) if you have them, so you've got a restore path if it all goes wrong. |
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| 1150566 | 2010-11-05 21:13:00 | I would image the original HDD's first s if all goes wrong you can put whatever OS was on them back on them | gary67 (56) | ||
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