Right now I'm on Vista and want to upgrade to Win7 and I have a few questions
1) If I just upgrade from Vista, is there any chance that the installation will mess up and I'll have to reformat? I can't have that happen because about 50GB of my games are steam files and because of crappy Australian internet that could take weeks to get back.
2) Will all my games automatically be compatible, or will I have to get a patch or something for every game/app?
3) Is there any other things I need to know when upgrading? I really can't have the installation screw up. If there's a risk of me having to format I'll just stick with Vista.
4) How long does installation take?
Get a backup of everything, do a clean install. Installation took me about 1,5 hrs I think
I guess I could do that, but I'd have to delete tons of movies off my external HDD to make enough space to backup all my stuff...
once the clean install is complete, how do I put all my stuff back on properly? wont everything be screwed because all the registry entries will be incompatible because of the different OS'es?
Upgraded my main pc from vista to 7, no problem.
Upgraded my second pc from xp to 7, had a problem with audio driver thing that would make the cpu go at 100%, simple fix though.
[QUOTE=Hammertime;20430001]Get a backup of everything, do a clean install. Installation took me about 1,5 hrs I think[/QUOTE]
That's fucking stupid.
I upgraded both my laptop and pc and although it took hours, everything is compatible and it is way faster and smoother than before.
So it was pretty much instant start with no new installations (other than OS of course) no new patches or anything? All retail and steam games worked fine?
It's not fucking stupid, it cleans out all the programs I barely use
Never really had a problem with a Win 7 install. And backing up is never a stupid thing to do when your doing a major system change. I wouldn't back up every single file unless you need to, just the important stuff.
[QUOTE=CivilProtection;20430024]I guess I could do that, but I'd have to delete tons of movies off my external HDD to make enough space to backup all my stuff...
once the clean install is complete, how do I put all my stuff back on properly? wont everything be screwed because all the registry entries will be incompatible because of the different OS'es?[/QUOTE]
If you've got movies on that thing they're probably not supposed to be there anyways.
Steam will automatically detect anything in the steamapps folder.
Use steams backup feature and burn a few DVD's
[QUOTE=CivilProtection;20430127]So it was pretty much instant start with no new installations (other than OS of course) no new patches or anything? All retail and steam games worked fine?[/QUOTE]
Let me put it this way, I have almost 2tb of programs, games, movies, photos, whatever. I upgraded to Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit from Windows Vista Ultimate 64, and it took 5 or so hours. However, once it completes the installation, everything is identical to your Vista installation except that it's Windows 7.
Every single thing was compatible, and I have 80+gb of Steam games, Adobe Design Premium CS4, and a bunch of other professional programs. If you do a clean install you'll have to reinstall and backup everything, and if you really want to get rid of shit you don't use, just be organized and uninstall shit
[QUOTE=MrDoctor;20434901]Let me put it this way, I have almost 2tb of programs, games, movies, photos, whatever. I upgraded to Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit from Windows Vista Ultimate 64, and it took 5 or so hours. However, once it completes the installation, everything is identical to your Vista installation except that it's Windows 7.
Every single thing was compatible, and I have 80+gb of Steam games, Adobe Design Premium CS4, and a bunch of other professional programs. If you do a clean install you'll have to reinstall and backup everything, and if you really want to get rid of shit you don't use, just be organized and uninstall shit[/QUOTE]
Except, you know, you don't reinstall movies/pictures/music/steam games.
Just the programs, which shouldn't take long at all.
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