  | Distinguished Member with 4,640 posts. | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Kawartha Lakes Experience: always learning | | Solved: The easy way to move to Win 7 from XP This is worth checking out,I have downloaded it and will be using it to switch from my XP to Windows 7. http://www.laplink.com/pcmover |  | Moderator with 96,726 posts. | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: South Eastern PA, USA Experience: Advanced age & experience | | I'd have a backup plan, specifically a fresh installation.  I have no confidence that this will do a flawless transfer. If it does, it'll be a first.  | | | Distinguished Member with 4,640 posts. | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Kawartha Lakes Experience: always learning | | It does not promise to do a flawless transfer,only what is possible,and my backup plan is to have the XP OS,all of it,moved to an external HDD.If the program works ,then some time in the future I can delete the XP from the external HDD since I will have made a backup of the new OS onto the external.That will be after I think that I have all I need from the XP system.
I am willing to try it since I have not found another way and I have read a couple of reviews on this product from reputable sites that say it is a good product.
The product is not just for moving from XP to Win 7.
I wonder why,with the millions of people that will be switching from XP to Win 7,that there is not a method widely publicized from Microsoft,to address this issue.If there is a method, I haven't seen it yet.
I like having options with anything I do and I haven't found more than this program yet.
So I shall see how it works, unless of course there is an easier way.
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Terry ✌ |  | Distinguished Member with 12,784 posts. | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Experience: A little of this...a little of that | | Everyone needs a solid backup plan regardless of whether or not they upgrade the operating system. It's also important to keep program installation CDs and executables in a safe (and known) place.
Windows XP is pretty old at this point, and Windows 7 is supposed to be a major operating system change. It's not unreasonable to expect to have to do a full reinstall and not an upgrade. | | | Moderator with 96,726 posts. | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: South Eastern PA, USA Experience: Advanced age & experience | | I've had really poor luck with upgrades. While some may work, there's always some nagging issues that bug you.  | | | Distinguished Member with 4,640 posts. | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Kawartha Lakes Experience: always learning | | I know that it will be a complete clean installation of a new OS.I know I need a clean HDD.I have no problem with that. | | | Distinguished Member with 12,784 posts. | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Experience: A little of this...a little of that | | You don't need a new hard drive. You need a backup plan. How are you currently backing up your data? | | | Distinguished Member with 4,640 posts. | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Kawartha Lakes Experience: always learning | | As far as an upgrade goes,I also know that there will be things that I will miss from my old OS.
The underlying question I keep asking myself is whether to attempt this myself or take my machine in to a comp shop.Ii could take my new external HDD in at the same time and have a backup made,and I could have 8 GB of ram installed also.
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Terry ✌ | | | Distinguished Member with 4,640 posts. | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Kawartha Lakes Experience: always learning | | I am not backing it up at this point in time.
I have an internal 1TB HDD with less than 300GB on it and I have another 1TB HDD arriving tomorrow or Monday to use as an external backup.I had a 1TB backup before but it got moved internally on my old system.I have been waiting for Win 7 since I got this new machine before I got a new HDD as a backup.
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15-Oct-2009, 04:31 PM
#10 | You need to backup regularly. | | | Distinguished Member with 4,640 posts. | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Kawartha Lakes Experience: always learning |
15-Oct-2009, 04:43 PM
#11 | I know,I had an incremental backup schedule with my old machine but since this machine is only a couple of months old I was just waiting until now to get it all in order,new OS,new/more ram,new external HDD as a backup drive. | | | Moderator with 96,726 posts. | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: South Eastern PA, USA Experience: Advanced age & experience |
15-Oct-2009, 07:45 PM
#12 | Remember: Data you don't have at least two copies of is data you don't care about. | | | Distinguished Member with 12,784 posts. | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Experience: A little of this...a little of that |
15-Oct-2009, 07:47 PM
#13 | I'm not sure if you're not understanding me, or I'm not understanding you. You need to back up all the time, not just when you think you're going to upgrade to a new operating system. You don't need to keep a copy of everything on your Windows XP installation. You only need your data.
And I would highly suggest you do the backup before having any technician touch it. You don't know what kind of "backup" they would do, and there's always a risk of a mistake and data loss. | | | Distinguished Member with 4,640 posts. | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Kawartha Lakes Experience: always learning |
16-Oct-2009, 12:18 AM
#14 | As soon as my new HDD arrives I shall be making a back up copy to it since I will be going to the new Win 7.When I get the new OS installed with all the data from the XP that I can get,then I will be making a copy of the Win 7 and have an incremental backup schedule set up.
My computer doesn't run my life,so if I lost everything I would not be pleased but I could start over from scratch if I had to.I certainly don't keep anything on it that is crucial to my life.That would be foolish.
I can function quite well without a computer.
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Terry ✌ | | | Moderator with 96,726 posts. | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: South Eastern PA, USA Experience: Advanced age & experience |
16-Oct-2009, 10:17 AM
#15 | I guess the 10 years of digital photos you have stored on it are not that important to you. Oh well... | |
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