Windows 7 Ultimate Migration/Upgrade.

Background Information

I wanted to start out with a little background information on the system that I am upgrading and how I am going to proceed. The system is an older Dell D810 with 2 Gigs of Ram. This machine has been running XP-Pro and has been heavily used. I would have preferred an upgrade option from XP to W7 because I have a lot of documents and tools all over the place. I primarily used this machine as a supplimental machine for my puny COE PC. I upgraded the hard disk to 100GB 7200RPM. I bought the machin refurbished and it came with the WUXGA screen so I got a lot of realestate for the great price that I paid for the machine. To my regret, I exercised the warranty before it expired for Dell to replace the screen because it got a couple of lines in it. Dell replaced it with a WXGA+ screen (something like that) which dropped me down 1 resolution step. Not much difference but I just felt a little pimped and did not want to go through the ordeal of another repair call.

Well, I had a blank 40 G drive hanging around so I have popped it in and have attached my old drive as a USB external. I am not sure of how I am going to approach this but I hope that I can find a way to move over some of my applications in place. I keep redundant backups and copies of install media, but I have to be honest with you folks, My software filing system has much to be desired and I don't want to re-install a bunch of stuff, much of which has been patched and upgraded from the initial installs.

Well, that's it for now. Let me get my install on!

Eunix

Windows 7 Revolution

Ok. It is time for the slumbering giant to get back in action here! With Windows 7 having been very impressive, it is time for me to do some upgrades around the house here!. Currently I have a little bit of everything...Ubuntu, Open Suse, Puppy, Solaris 11 (x86), HP/UX 11.23, AIX , Vista 64 , Vista 32, and lots of XP.

Unlike all of the people that I see in the forums who have ordered new machines with W7, I squeeze every ounce of computing out o my machines and I am excited about W7 because it breathes new life back into older machines. I was about to get me a quad core laptop but don't need it now. Not for a lappy. And I broke down and bought me an Xbox 360 so I am upgrading ye olde home network to Gigabit and will save my coins to a new server build core i7 and I am going to build out some NAS storage just to keep a few of the older machine running until the wheels fall off!

Hang in there with me as the first project that I am going to share with you is how in the hell do I upgrade/migrate my favorite XP Dell D810 to W7 and keep my software in tact!

Eunix