Going from XP to Win 7? Maybe not....
 

Move To Windows 7 Will Be Tough

Ok, so, XP forevah!! Rah! :har:

Very Simple. Partition HDD and Dual Boot. I did and no problems for 2 months so far.

Use printer and other stuff on XP until you get the hang of Win7.

MS is in a bad place IMO. IIRC, 6/10 businesses are passing on Win7. Vista has left the company with a terrible name. I think they could take a beating from the combined likes of Google, Apple, and the various free Linux distros. It's not a for sure thing, but they are in as shaky as a position as the have been since the early 1990s.

PD

I'd recommend you do this anyway. Upgrades never work right. Always some niggling bug left from the old install.

-S

Sounds like Mr Mossberg is lazy man... :03: The recommendation to buy a computer with Win 7 pre-installed to save the hassle seems like a pure plug for people selling this. And everyone knows that most such deals means they install a lot of crap on your computer as well, and that you then will spend time to get rid off it. :yep:

I did a clean install of Win 7 RC on a friends laptop yesterday and I was done in two hours maximum, and that included program installs and upgrades. The driver support seems excellent in Win 7 as it found and installed everything on its own. (Remember installing a clean copy of XP? now we are talking fiddling with drivers and software, especially if you had to start from a disc with no sp 1 & 2 included)

I never missed Xp a beat after moving to win 7, I skipped Vista though.

cheers Porphy

Bah.. there is an file transfer system you can use so to not lose all your stuff if you go from XP to 7. Yes, the hardware drivers wont work, but geez, I doubt anyone has like 20 different things plugged into their PCs?! It's not like it takes 2 weeks to get your drivers installed.

Still using a 7100 RC build and it's 90% of the time better than XP was. :salute:

Have to agree with you on the drivers. 7 had no problem installing all the drivers of all the printers on the network and for the PC. Of course my documents files were on the server.

From that point of view, moving from XP to XP is also a nightmare!:haha: When your installation goes crazy and the only solution is format, you have to install EVERYTHING again, drivers, software... unless you have an unattended XP.

Who are these people who would even considering an upgrade?!?!

Always do clean installs...to great a chance of old junk or problems will follow...

After a couples of month with Vista, I have now W7

I can play all my old and all the new games i have, without any problems at all.

Markus

A Windows to Help You Forget

So, to upgrade from XP, the easiest solution is buy a new HD, make it the master and slave the original with all my files, and format and load Win7 on the new HD. Voila!

Right? :hmmm:

I just hooked my new drive up to an available SATA port, formatted it, then moved it to the first port (where your main drive is now) and moved my main drive to the 2nd port and booted off the CD. no master slave stuff needed with SATA

I can access my data on the old drive, and if I want, swap the connectors and boot from it.

IMHO, I would just back up data to an external hard drive (pretty cheap these days). Then reformat and load with Win7 from scratch, which has to be beter than trying an upgrade.

So are people going Win7 on Oct 22? I'd like to ditch XP if only to get recognition of more than ... what is it ... 3 MB RAM?

That's what I'm saying, right? Just add a new HD, and load the full version of Win7. You don't need to back anything from your original HD, as longam says, you can still access the files.

Some long time back, on my old PC, my Windows was corrupted and the PC would not boot up. Tried a lot of things, but it would not boot up. So I bought a new, and much larger, HD, made it the master and slaved the original with all my files, and installed XP on the new HD. Computer worked great, all the programs on the old HD with corrupted Windows worked fine.