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| Thread ID: 102044 | 2009-08-05 08:38:00 | Installation Help For Windows 7 Release Candidate | vims213 (15007) | Press F1 |
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| 798411 | 2009-08-06 08:19:00 | Doing an Upgrade of ANY OS is always a risk - there are so many things that can and do go wrong sometimes. If you have any damage on the Vista Install doing an upgrade to W7 wont fix it - it may in fact end up with no bootable system. Bit like building a house on shaky foundations - doesn't matter how good the house is, if the foundations are bad so will be the end result. Even Microsoft will tell you , its better to do a clean install. I was reading a Tech article from MS ( I think it was) there was an article that mentioned when they were doing some testing, a fresh install of W7 RC took around 25-30 minutes to install.( which is true) The upgrade from Vista took 4 1/2 hours. Big problem here is your cannot upgrade from RC to RTM Thats correct - but you would be better off doing a fresh install of W7 than trying to upgrade Vista. Edited: Also, if I have a separate recovery hdd partition, can I use that to recover back to Vista if I have any issues? What "should" happen is when W7 is installed it installs where the current Vista is ( as long as you use the custom install and select the current OS partition)- leaving the recovery partition alone. So if you wanted to put Vista back, you set the recovery going, it wipes out W7 and reinstalls vista back to when you first brought the PC. All data / Programs etc are totally gone. In the past I have had customers compaqs that have had very bad file damage - loaded a partition manager Via CD , wiped out the OS partition, leaving the recovery. Reboot - Start tapping F10 - run the restore, it put back the partition and loaded the OS from Fresh. |
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| 798412 | 2009-08-06 21:47:00 | Thanks for the advice "wainuitech" I installed it last night and you were right about the time to upgrade Vista . It took me around 3 and a 1/2 hours to upgrade (and I was up to 12:30am this morning waiting for it to finish) :groan: The transfer of files from Vista to Windows 7 took a while but in the end, it was worth it . The installation seemed very easy compared to Vista and XP as my laptop did everything for me . I haven't used much on Windows 7 after it installed but I have to say Microsoft did an amazing fixing up Vista . The boot up and shut down is fast, performance is AMAZING and the new taskbar is much better . I'm glad to say that I didn't lose any documents, music, games etc . after I upgraded and my programs are running fine . The desktop looks great, and I can see why people say Windows 7 is like XP but better . I have made recovery disk just in case which took me a while to do . And I've still got that recovery partition . Anyone thinking of testing out the release candidate of Windows 7 should go for it . Just remember to backup, create recovery disks . If upgrading, it will take a while to install but as "wainuitech" said, it will only take around 30 mins to do a clean install of Windows 7 . Thank you to "wainuitech", "blam6", "SolMiester", "Speedy Gonzales", and "Chilling_Silence" for your advice and review of Windows 7 . :thanks And lastly thank you to Microsoft for a great operating system . :D |
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| 798413 | 2009-08-07 00:27:00 | deleted..... | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 798414 | 2009-08-07 07:16:00 | Downloading RTM at the moment @ 407 KB\Sec...... | SolMiester (139) | ||
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