Windows 7 Upgrade and Migration Guide

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Keep the good work of yours :)

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I am running Vista 32bit ultimate on my SONY Vaio FZ160E. How do I find out if my present motherboard supports the upgrade to 64bit Windows 7

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It depends on the processor. IT has to be at least a dual-core.

I have a laptop that crashed due to a mother board issue but still have a fully functional hard drive from the "old" computer. I would like to utilize the Windows Easy Transfer to transfer data and settings from said hard drive to a new laptop. Is this possible? I have an EZ-Dock and can see all the files on the hard drive. Can someone help with some detailed instructions?

What happens when upgrading to 64bit W7 from 32bit Vista? Is a clean install required? And, how does one know the difference between 32 & 64 bit versions of W7? I have not seen a distinction.

Windows 7 Upgrade was installed. Windows Easy Transfer was used. After Upgrade installed. Games that came with the computer were no longer available on the start menu. The Game folder was there but no games. Also the 320GB hard drive has gone from over 200GB free to less than 80GB free. How do I get the games back and free up the space on the HD?

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Hi,

I have the same problem as SROB01 (see post "Transfer from a hard drive (removed from old computer) to a new computer running windows 7" | Modified on 1/3/2010 6:56 PM by srob01). But I can't see any response to his/her problem. Please can we have detailed instuctions about what needs to be done to read the old files from Windows 7? My enclosure is a 3.5'' USB 2.0 to SATA enclosure. I have mounted it on my new computer as per instructions but it dows not come up in the list of disks in "My Computer".

Thanks.

yea after i installed windows 7 on my computer i noticed i had low disk space. after looking through my disk i noticed something called "old windows installation(s)" and im not sure wat it is. all i know is i barely have 2gb left on my disk and that program is taking up 73gb. what is this program? is it safe to delete it?

Esther Fan, MSFT: Thank you for your comments. The Windows.Old location contains programs and files from your previous version of Windows. See http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Where-are-my-files-and-folders-after-upgrading-from-Windows-XP-or-Windows-Vista.


You can also try the Windows 7 forum at Microsoft Answers:
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/windows7

When it comes to upgrades, there is division between consumer and volume licenses editions. That is the reason you will find upgrade from retail (Home Premium) to Business or Entrerprise edition is not supported.

There is a different cost structure and deployment venue for volume license products which is alien to the individual or group purchase plan with the retail versions.

Anytime upgrade, which is the basis for upgrades within the retail series product line does not even have an option for the volume/enterprise products.

It is not an oversight, nor a scheme to deprive you, us or anyone of any rights; there is no conspiracy... it merely enforces the separation. If anything, Microsoft has been generous by adding the features which in originally provided, exclusively, to Windows 7 Ultimate so they are now shared by Enterprise version. Which means now Enterprise version which is covered under secure software and upgrade rights for volume customers - shares the same coverage under select agreements - instead of being a left out of coverage if you installed Ultimate on on a Corp./company computer to get the media and graphics which early windows Enterprise lacked.

I hope that clears up why, upgrade from Home Premium to Enterprise or Business is not supported.

RC/Beta versions of client software: are time limited, this is stressed at the time of download. Further, RC/Beta software is provided Free, to allow non-production testing - as a service for users, administrators ... generally knowledgible users, a glimpse at future products. It assumes you can do much of the troubleshooting your self, when you encounter problems or at the very least, are capable of making a reasonable report of problems encountered, so they can be addressed before RTM. You scratch my back...I'll scratch yours. Seems like a fair trade ... not a give away, too many other companies have taken to using paying customers as Beta test - I think MS deserves a little credit.

Another good XP migration tool is SmartMigrate. You run it on your XP machine and it makes a virtual machine of the live system. Works amazingly well. (Though I haven't tried ZInstall - mentioned by someone else, seems similar.)

I have Windows Vista with Service Pack 2, yet it won't let me Upgrade. Why might this be happening?

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i try to install this windows 7 but it says that i cant because my vista is in danish.
does anyone know how to change the language if íts possible? or do i have to format my pc complete?

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Just bought a new notebook pre installed with windows 7. I loaded a simple program I am currently running on another PC which has XP installed, with no problems. The error is with the Java VM library, I m told to install XP as a migration path to windows 7. Please assist on how to do this.

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if i update from vista to 7 my video and pic it will deleted or it will keep it

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Hi, I wanted to upgrade my PC from Windows 7 Home to Windows 7 Ultimate via the Upgrade feature on the install DVD. What I want to ask before doing that is: will my documents and folders on my Hard Drive and in "Documents" plus my installed programs will be transferred in the upgrade?

Thanks in advance!

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I recently added a newer motherboard/processor and video card to my system, and now windows 7 is telling me I need to reactivate windows 7. Unfortunately when I try to put in my license key, it tells me its invalid. I tried it via phone activation hoping to get to speak with someone at MS, but was told my licensing didn't allow this. Whats up with that? I had purchased a 3 license upgrade pack a while back, and have it installed on this computer, and 2 laptops, so why is it now saying I have to re-activate, and why wont it let me register ?

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For all of those who have trouble with migrating from XP to 7 try Zinstall (http://www.zinstall.com) -
I have a home based buisness with 4 computers I upgraded all 4 of them to Windows 7.

It saved me a lot of the trouble , I didn't need to re-install anything, and all my programs we're up and running
(Including Outlook Express, which is incompatible with Windows 7)

Good Luck!!!

Presumably you have to begin with the XP computer (or link to it?). Typical MS.

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OK… So here is my frustration for being so stupid to trust Microsoft WET software. I have used WET numerous times to transfer files onto new systems at my church. So when I got my hands on Windows 7 Professional 64-bit this week, I decided to upgrade from the Beta version of 32-bit Windows 7 Ultimate so I could utilize the 8 gbs of ram on my system. I usually backup my files once a week since I am a photographer and backups are crucial to my profession. This week I shot a bunch of jobs and Lightroom imports the images to my C drive. I figured I could just run WET and I would be able save the data and transfer it to my Newly Installed Win 7 Pro 64-bit. I WAS GRAVELY WRONG… I ran the software and it keeps saying "Windows East Transfer couldn't open the file". I have tried USMT3 & USMT4, neither work. I have called Microsoft and they tell me that there is no internal tool to open my files. This is my worst experience ever with Microsoft. I am honestly thinking of sueing them over this lost data.

I really need help with this. I am supposed to deliver some portraits tomorrow on disk, but I can’t access them. PLEASE HELP…..

  
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right microsoft help meee !!
got a windows 7 upgrade kid from you and acer- off acer upgrade offfer where you get a free upgrade from vista to windows 7
its a CD!!! i dont have a CD drive soo i have heard that you can download it from your website for free still can you ???
if so could you kindly send me a link :)
im 14 year old so reply quick because i got it for my birthday 5 months ago and still haven't put windows 7 on yet
!!!!
thanks :)

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This page says you can only upgrade Vista to Win7 for the same edition. The main MS page says you can upgrade from any edition. which is correct ?

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It was my understanding that Win7 was supposed to answer the problems people faced with Vista. So you would think all the people who had to go back to XP would be able to jump right to Win7. Very disappointing.
Also, please note that I have tried the Technet forums and found the people there to be of very little help. Mostly I've found them rude and self-centered. I went there once to find out how to replace a Windows XP64 disk, and wasted my time with people who had no clue on how to do it. I finally found out how to do it on my own. I suggest anyone looking for help, to go somewhere else.

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I am the IT person at a Local University and am purchasing new computers from the local Best Buy. They are pre-loaded with Windows 7 Home Premium. Our university has an Enterprise Volume Licensing version of Windows Enterprise.

Can I upgrade these new pcs, or do I have to reformat?

Thank you.

Gus Miller
Kent State University
Kent, Ohio 44240

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I love 7 7600. Along with VMWare running XP for the legacy based PLC's at work. Seamless install, and very light on resources. A huge improvement on Vista.

Requiring that a user reinstall all applications is completely unacceptable. For me, reinstalling all my applications, including Visual Studio would be very time consuming. As an IT professional I will not recommend that users upgrade from XP if they/I have to go through this.

I agree with the Ubuntu guys. Ubuntu provides a much better facility for upgrading and allows you to carry your existing applications forward in each new version. It also doesn't cost any money to be a member of the open source community's version of technet ;-)

Can't beat free.

I have a vista home premium.Can i upgrade this to Windows 7 without pay money ???
Thank You.

OMG - I am appauled by alle the complaints about the upgrade procedures from a beta release to a final release of WIndows 7.....

You have got to be kidding???! What morons installs a Beta relase on their production system???? The license aggrement to the pre-releases clearly states, that you SHOULD NOT INSTALL the OS in a Production System - so the Error is yours and yours alone....

I am really appauled by all the nagging and whining about the upgrade procedures - if you are so disgusted with the system then use an Open Source OS, and let the rest of us follow the guidelines with out having to read through a bunch of whiners rambling on about how miserable the whole thing is - if you had just followed the initial guidelines, you wouldn't have the problems you have now.....

Whiners Use Linux!!!

Losers use Windows!!!!

I have an HP Pavilion Media Center PC that came with Windows Vista installed. I bought a copy of Windows 7 Home Premium upgrade designed for Windows Vista. However I did something wrong installing the new OS and ended up with a mess. Now for the question: Is there a way to remove everything on my machine and do a clean install with this version, or must I do a clean install of Vista first?

OK, I'm not the brightest bulb on the tree, but I have been making computers that do what I want & need them to do (for myself & others) since DOS 1.0. I loved WIN 3.11, manipulating the .ini files by way of start up batch menus, it would dance to MY tune. Win 98 wasn't bad, however you had to dig deeper and work harder to get it to do what you wanted. I was unimpressed until XP. Still harder to tame, XP turned out to be quite the work horse, if not a bit cumbersome. Learning early in the game to take a wait and see philosophy, I watched Vista go down in flames (To all of you who just had an ugly thought: When was the last time you have seen anyone scramble to come out with a new OS [WIN 7] two or three years after a major overhaul? Or offer a DOWNgrade package for OEM [back to XP]? Hmmm?).

Netbooks are coming out with a light version of Linux, so MS comes out with a light netbook OS. Mac has a touch screen. Oboy, MS has one too! Multi-media, yippie!!! Folks, I had a TV card in a WIN 98 machine, I didn't have cable, but I could watch the Nightly News on NBC & play solitaire on the same screen, at the same time.

The bottom line is coming, hang on. First, allow me to poke a stick in the pile & give it a flip. Here is what is WRONG with MS, Apple & Linux: MS has an overlord mentality with paranoid delusions. Everybody is out to steal intellectual property! So we have to hide everything & clutter up the way things talk to each other, not to mention continuously check to make sure your not using the wrong software on the wrong computer (they have back doors to check serial #s, among other things, that leave your system vulnerable). And last but not least, DO NOT share info with 3rd party vendors.; Apple started with a holier than thou mentality but now they are meerly smug & arrogant. To a certain extent they should be. Of the three major OS's, they play well with others (3rd party vendors and hardware mfgs) but their OS is getting complicated and less secure.; Linux is great! It is light, fast, forgiving, secure and uncomplicated. It also has no 3rd party software, to speak of.

Finally (whew), here's the bottom line. *[Sorry, I forgot to mention Win 7 may be wonderful. However it doesn't look good as an upgrade, unless your willing to do a lot of work. From what everyone is saying, I'll only be using it on new machines.] Ubuntu (a Linux based OS that is completely open source and completely free) is going to take the world by storm someday. Their idea that all software should be free is admirable. Open Office & Firefox (to name two biggies) are native on Ubuntu. You probably use one or both, right? That's why they are free, even on Windows. There's alot of stuff for Windows that's free and is top notch. Why you ask? Because there are talented people out in this wonderful cyber world we now live in, who are tired of paying good money for carp that either doesn't work or is hard to work. One day major vendors (Adobe, AutoCad, etc.) will write the "big" software titles to Ubuntu. They for sure won't be free in a monetary sense, but we will be free of overpriced, overcomplicated, overbearing OS vendors.

p.s. *noted in above paragraph

p.p.s. also forgot to mention Ubuntu runs on Intel 286 thru 586(pentium), dual & quad core. i'm not sure about 64 bit though.

No, you can't. These are completely different systems. I mean 32bit architecture and 64bit. You have to perform clean instalation. Also note that you must have at least a dual-core processor to use a 64bit OS. Single cores like Pentium 4's can only run 32bit.

I have install Windows 7 and so far it works good thanks for all the help.

I'm planning to install Win7 onto a separate logical drive on my laptop. After the upgrade, both OSes (XP & 7) will be able see the other's drive. Will I be able to 'import' settings from Win7 by accessing the XP drive directly or do I still have to do the 'migration' process? Should I do this before or after installing applications? Will this process bring the application settings (like my Excel and Word Options)?

Thanks!

i really am illiterate when it comes to computers but I upgraded Vista to 7 on a laptop and I did a clean install on a windows vista 32 bit desktop to win 7 64 bit. I also did a clean install on a win XP desktop to win 7 32 bit. It took a while.........but it really went quite flawlessly. Maybe I was just lucky? Somehow I dont think it was luck. Nice job Microsoft!

so i bought this stupid upgrade for Windows 7 to upgrade one of my XP systems. it said my system was ok for 32-bit and then if i wanted my settings run this other program. i ran the migration program and it said it was going to take over 6 days - i canceled that and tried again and it said several hours and i finally gave up and said the heck with it and just decided to run the upgrade, eventually i got the message saying that i could not upgrade! i think that happened because i still said to keep my settings - i don't want to do a clean install and lose all my current files! i will give it another attempt later after i calm down! This is why i use a Mac for my main computer!

Hi, I am on a Domain, I used the transfer wizard to take me settings out of Win7 RC and into Win 7 Pro. No problems at all, went like a charm. I had to restrict what the transfer wizard wanted to copy from the mapped network drives tho as it was not necessary to copy all that stuff.

A format and then a clean install followed by running the wizard again to import and then reinstall some software and we are up and running again in under 2 hours.

I have been running the win7 RC since it was relewased and it is the best version of windows yet, no doubt about it.

The only problem is when I try to make a system repair disc I get " The parameter is incorrect" (0x80070057). Any ideas??

I've went through the steps (Windows easy transfer etc.)... -it took the machine ~an hour.
none of my info is back.

A folder named "Windows.old" was created in C (main drive) that contains all of my files, but not distributed to the computer (for example, none of the programs are installed... no Office etc.)

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First of all, QUIT YOUR WHINING / CRYING / AND MOANING YOU PUSSYS!!!!!!!!. This is how to do it, CLEAN INSTALL ONLY!!!!!! I have a 200GB hard drive to install the x64 os, a 1.5TB hard drive to store my videos, a 1.5TB hard drive to store my music, and a 1.5TB hard drive to store my games. The 200GB drive will only have the os and apps needed to keep the drive running at it's peak performance. The reason i only do clean installs is that by doing one you get rid of any left over clutter from stuff that got onto your pc before you install your new operating system. HEED MY ADVICE PEOPLE!!!!!! I have been in the computer industry since the 70s so i think i know what i am talking about. So good luck to everyone who will attempt to install the new os.

Hello.

I have in my pc the OS vista home premium. Can i upgrade to 7 professional?

Thanks

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If you don't have time to back up your files and settings and are worried about having to re-install any programs you have right now, then you may want to rethink your upgrade and quit nagging about how it's Microsoft's fault. It's a computer, it works on logic, not magic. Take one Sunday and just go nuts with the settings and installs, and voila! It's back to the clustered-up piece of work you had before. If you really want 7 then you won't have a problem doing this.

OK, I agree that some folk out there aren't happy about having to clean-install from XP to 7. However, I should point out that Microsoft haven't really what you might call a completely flawless record when it comes to upgrades and, in my experience (on servers and desktops at least), a clean-install is by far the easiest way to go, so I'm not making an awful lot of noise about it. That really goes for those folk changing from Vista as well, though the one argument that I could cite for XP upgraders would be that, if Microsoft really want to wean as many folk off XP as possible, they should be a little more amenable. After all, you can't blame the users for XP's longevity, nor for the disaster that was Vista.

As for everything else, I think the phrase "do a backup before you start" is the one most applicable to anyone starting out on this adventure. It answers so many questions to those asked above. A little bit of homework, prepare the system, get all your software together along with any registration keys you might be needing, then do a backup! My own suggestion would be to use some sort of ghost tool but even NT Backup (for those on XP Professional) is better than nothing at all should you get into trouble. I'd give that advice whether it was Windows 7, Windows 98, Linux or RISC OS (though the latter is less of a problem considering that all you needed to do was open the box, pull out the old ROMs and stuff in the new ones).

No, having tried RC1 on a 5+ yo, PIII 512MB laptop, I'm looking forward to seeing what the release version makes of my main video system, which is considerably younger and more powerful. Will W7 be the overweight power hog that Vista was, the relative lightweight that XP (or W2K as that was what I used to start with) or will it be the problem child with learning difficulties that every other release of Windows has been back to W3.0 (the *driver* issue bugs each new version, so why not W7?)

And I wonder what the OS-Tan will look like? ^_^

Why the *** is everyone complaining so much about the lack of upgrade options from Windows XP? You clearly show no technical knowledge of how the operating system works. Microsoft had to extensively re-design the operating system. ***, you guys all saw how drastically the operating system was changed just by looking at Windows Vista and all the incompatibilities it had with all the *** you guys used. You guys *** about Windows being inadequacy, insecure, incapable, and a resource hog. Microsoft finally extensively fixes the operating system rather than just patching it up like a 50 year old bike with masking tape, and now you guys are ***ing because a simple 45 minute installation isn't enough to completely break down Windows XP and build Windows 7.

Look, too much has changed about the entire operating system to simple expect an installer to flawlessly translate everything over. I for one am happy Microsoft took the first important step to demonstrating for once that this operating system might actually be a big enough change and improvement that it couldn't simply be upgraded from Windows XP, but not letting us just... well, simply upgrade.

And yes, you do need to reinstall your applications. Anyone who has any idea of how the registry works, knows that for the longest time it's been rather flawed. So for Windows 7 to present us with a registry that is extensively repaired enough that it's no longer compatible with even Windows Vista, that to me says something. It tells me that Windows 7 is a rejuvination, not just another slap in the face.

Microsoft recommends Windows 7 beta or RC users to perform a clean or fresh installation of Windows 7 RTM, and uses Windows Easy Transfer to save and transfer user accounts, Windows settings, program settings, personal customizations and files from current installation to newly installed Windows 7 RTM system.The mechanism built into Windows 7 RTM to block and prevent upgrade from all pre-release versions of Windows 7 earlier than build 7233 for client edition, including Windows 7 Beta Build 7000 and Windows 7 RC Build 7100. For Windows Server 2008 R2, users can directly in-place upgrade from Windows Server 2008 R2 RC.

However, the hack similar to upgrade from Windows 7 Beta to RC can be used to hack the Windows 7 RTM installation DVD ISO to circumvent and bypass the blockage, in order not to be forced to exit gracefully from the upgrade.

1. Copy or download the Windows 7 RTM ISOto the computer that wants to perform the upgrade.
2. Mount the ISO image onto a virtual DVD drive and copy the whole content of the image to folder which can be located anywhere (on any partition or drive on the machine running the pre-release build, or external hard disk or USB/FireWire flash drive connected to the computer).

   Alternatively, it’s possible to directly extract the content of the ISO to a desired folder using file extraction tool such as WinRAR.

3. Browse to the sources directory.
4. Open the file cversion.ini in a text editor such as Notepad.
5. Modify the MinClient build number to a value lower than the down-level build. For example, change 7233 to 7000.

   Original content of cversion.ini:
   [HostBuild]
MinClient=7233.0
MinServer=7100.0

   Change it to:
   [HostBuild]
MinClient=7000.0
MinServer=7100.0

6. Save the file in original place and original name.
7. Double click on setup.exe from modified installation files to start Windows 7 installation, and choose Upgrade to in-place upgrade to latest RTM gold build of Windows 7. The version check will be skipped and bypassed.

after going to plug and play a lot of us thought we might be able to do a few things for ourselves,no com ports ect. to sort out .hardware swapping has gotten fairly easy . i haven't even had a wireless problem i could not solve . i have always been bad at soft ware . windows 7 is some thing i'll not mess with . i have installed and uninstalled just about every program possible on machines such as 8088 286 386 486 even programed a little dos on a ti94a when we were not playing space invaders . i found a couple of young guys over at the local seince and tech high school that are doing it for around 50 bucks . this is to much work to install a program in todays world . i have had windows 4.0 and up

Can upgrade from XP32 bit to 64bit Win7? I read the transfer apps. and settings section, and don't have a problem with that.

[tfl - 15 06 09] Hi - and thanks for your post.You should post questions like this to the Technet Forums at http://forums.microsoft.com/technet or the MS Newsgroups at http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/.  You are much more likely get a quick response using the forums than through the Community Content. For specific help about:
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