Vista to Seven upgrade

davidcrebelxt wrote in post #8925834
I bought a new 500gb drive for my install (wanted one anyway.)

After initializing and formatting the new drive in vista I swapped SATA cables to make new drive my primary... and left vista drive unplugged for now (didn't want to risk anything touching it during install.) I ran my Win7 disc (upgrade disc) and everything went through fine. If you have trouble with your legitimate upgrade on clean install, these tips should get you through it pretty easy: http://www.winsupersit​e.com …install_upgrade​_media.asp

Then I shut down, reconnected my Vista drive as secondary, and restarted my machine. In a month or so, once I'm happy I've got everything I need restored from my external backup (documents, pictures, itunes library, etc) and sure everythings working properly, I'll format my Vista drive and recover all that space.

edit: I did went from 32 to 64bit

Thanks for the tip David. To be on the safe side, this would definitely be a good option in case something screwed up during the install. Appreciate the input.

Tee Why wrote in post #8926007
I upgraded on the 26th from Vista Home Premium 32 bit to Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit. Instead of a fresh rebuild, I didn't want to bother with saving everything and installing everything again.

So I chose to just do the upgrade. It first told me the Citrix, Eos Utility, and i Tunes had to be uninstalled. I did that and it crashed during the install about 3 times but the 4th was a charm. I reinstalled the Eos Utility and the iTunes and they both work fine now. The upgrade that worked took about an hour or so. If I had to reinstall everything, it probably would have taken me half a day or so for me.

I think if you go from 64 bit to 64 bit, the experience should be similar.

As for the difference, it seems a bit more stable and the Huey doesn't decalibrate itself as much when a new device is plugged into the USB port as much. I tried LR a bit and it does seem a bit faster.

Good luck.

Cool Tee. Thanks for sharing your experience during the upgrade. I'm glad you didn't have any issues other than to remove those particular software. I'm definitely going to try the upgrade first and if it doesn't go well, I'll try the other route.

Funny you mention about the calibration part of it. Everytime I do my routine calibration, Vista doesn't recognize it at first. I have to let Vista find the driver and install when in fact, the driver is already installed. Go figure. This was a darn pita. I sure hope this doesn't happen anymore when 7 is installed.

Thanks again!

Planning on doing the upgrade next week. Like Tee Why, I have a fairly new laptop, with not a lot of crud, so I'll be trying the in-place upgrade. Just in case I'll be cloning my boot disk before the upgrade.

jdizzle wrote in post #8925528
Sure Tommy. Will do. I just have to recheck and make sure I have all my files backed up completely. All these RAW files are massive! LOL!

Well, now is the time to fix this! Are all of your RAW files on the C drive? "If so, get them off now while you do the new install. Partition the hard drive or use a separate drive to store them.

In2Photos wrote in post #8930613
Well, now is the time to fix this! Are all of your RAW files on the C drive? "If so, get them off now while you do the new install. Partition the hard drive or use a separate drive to store them.

I did everything to prepare for the upgrade.

Just an FYI to all, my upgrade to Windows 7 was a great success!! I had no issues whatsoever during the transition. I went straight to the upgrade option and it was smooth sailing all the way through. Once I copied over all my RAW files to an external, I left the original RAW files on the secondary drive. To my surprise, the files are still intact!! Way to go Microsoft!!

I ran the Windows 7 advisor app. first to see what was compatible. And the only two softwares I had to remove was iTunes and some game my son installed. It really was an awesome experience to see how smooth it went. All my software was intact too!

Thanks to everyone who gave their input! I truly appreciate it!

In2Photos wrote in post #8930613
Well, now is the time to fix this! Are all of your RAW files on the C drive? "If so, get them off now while you do the new install. Partition the hard drive or use a separate drive to store them.

Big advantage of having two, separate, internal drives - one for the OS and one for data. Only the OS drive should be affected by the upgrade (although I'll still have my data drive backup - just in case things go horribly wrong).

hollis_f wrote in post #8931440
Big advantage of having two, separate, internal drives - one for the OS and one for data. Only the OS drive should be affected by the upgrade (although I'll still have my data drive backup - just in case things go horribly wrong).

Exactly! All my data (photos, excell and word files, email, etc) are all stored on separate drives. Reinstalling or installing a new OS is a snap.