Comments on: The Ultimate ‘Upgrade To Windows 7′ Guide

By: Fred

Fred — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:19:40 +0000

My XP Pro hard drive died so I installed a new drive and since I only had the XP repair disk, decided to upgrade to Win 7. Now running Win 7, how can I recover all my XP files that I previously had backed up on an extenal drive? I’ve tried setting up Virtual PC to run XP mode but my system is not capable of running it.(AMD Sempron 3000+)

By: Emmet

Emmet — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:38:15 +0000

Hi, I have just got a offical Win7 Ultimate disk. I have a 1tb hard disk with 2 partitions. I have backed up everyting to one of these (not the one with the OS of course).

I want to do a clean install from win XP to Win 7. Will my backed up partition stay intact or will Window 7 want to delete it. Any help would be great as I hoping to do the upgrade soon.

By: Computer Repair

Computer Repair — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:50:13 +0000

Never believe to Microsoft upgrade. Even you have a fresh install. Make fresh install again instead of upgrade.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:13:54 +0000

My laptop came with Vista 64-bit pre-installed. The company (Toshiba) offered a “Free Upgrade to Win 7″.
Went through the process to get the Win 7 DVD sent.

Once I get the Upgrade DVD, can I and how will I do a clean install of Windows 7 using that Upgrade DVD?

I have seen numerous webpages talking about clean (custom) installations.

If I have my laptop booted up and running (current copy of Vista) and I insert the Upgrade DVD, choose Custom Install, how is my hard drive wiped and Win 7 installed (clean)? How will the verification be done that I have (had!) a certified, activated copy of Vista installed?

I’m not sure I follow the process of the clean install…or how my current/activated copy of Vista is verified.

Sorry if this seems like an “elementary” question. I just wasn’t sure how all this was going to work.

By: Waqar

Waqar — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 06:50:39 +0000

from where i can get Evalution copy ? of Windows 7 Ultimate

By: Jim Henderson

Jim Henderson — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:47:59 +0000

Yup. This is because you are still running the Windows 7 Beta, rather than Windows 7 RC1.

The good news is that you can obtain the RC for free still. The bad news is that you can’t upgrade from what you have now. You need to do a fresh install. There are some reports of folk successfully upgrading through various different devious paths. I wouldn’t recommend trying.

Just for the sake of clarity, you understand you’re going to have to go through all this again next year, right? You WILL have to install a final copy of Windows 7 (which will not be free) or find something else to install, because your machine will revert to what it’s doing now. Restarting. And you will NOT be able to upgrade. You’ll need to do a fresh install AGAIN.

Such is the cost of the bleeding edge.

I hope that helps.

Jim

By: Jim Henderson

Jim Henderson — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:43:20 +0000

No problem.

By: thiek

thiek — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:47:45 +0000

i am running windows 7 untilmate in my laptop, but since the os seems to be expired, the system shut sown every two hours. how can i solve this problems? or how to install other version of windows 7? because this is favorite OS.

By: aha85

aha85 — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:47:26 +0000

thank you

By: Jim Henderson

Jim Henderson — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:42:42 +0000

I’m afraid I’m not going to be much help with this, Justin. I only did the clean install. One idea though. Given that you’ve already been prepared to blow everything away (otherwise you couldn’t have done the clean install), how about you clean off the drive, and try again?

Anyone else have any helpful ideas?