Comments on: In-place upgrade adventures with Windows 7 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/1691-in-place-upgrade-adventures-with-windows-7.html Tech writing blog Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:04:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: tim http://www.itwriting.com/blog/1691-in-place-upgrade-adventures-with-windows-7.html/comment-page-1#comment-711773 tim Thu, 28 Jul 2011 07:53:53 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/?p=1691#comment-711773 No, in-place upgrade will not work. I think the oem licenses are still valid though. Tim No, in-place upgrade will not work. I think the oem licenses are still valid though.

Tim

]]> By: SF http://www.itwriting.com/blog/1691-in-place-upgrade-adventures-with-windows-7.html/comment-page-1#comment-711387 SF Wed, 27 Jul 2011 22:58:21 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/?p=1691#comment-711387 I have upgraded the mem on my preloaded Win7x32 HP. In order to make them available I need to upgrade to x64. Now the question: can I perfrom an in place upgrade from 7x32 to 7x64, so that my OEM licenses and preloaded Office 2007 licenses still work ? I have upgraded the mem on my preloaded Win7x32 HP.
In order to make them available I need to upgrade to x64.

Now the question: can I perfrom an in place upgrade from 7×32 to 7×64, so that my OEM licenses and preloaded Office 2007 licenses still work ?

]]> By: TL http://www.itwriting.com/blog/1691-in-place-upgrade-adventures-with-windows-7.html/comment-page-1#comment-289019 TL Tue, 26 Oct 2010 08:06:50 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/?p=1691#comment-289019 Did you observe one additional condition for inplace upgrade? Windows system / All program & user profile have to locate at the same partition? I have encounter such problem, did anyone get a solution except clean install. Did you observe one additional condition for inplace upgrade?

Windows system / All program & user profile have to locate at the same partition?

I have encounter such problem, did anyone get a solution except clean install.

]]> By: Ken Pascoe http://www.itwriting.com/blog/1691-in-place-upgrade-adventures-with-windows-7.html/comment-page-1#comment-167878 Ken Pascoe Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:39:07 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/?p=1691#comment-167878 And the same here. Over 350GB of data in D:\My Documents all moved into the $inplace.~tr folder - specifically, D:\$inplace.~tr\Machine\DATA\My Documents. What was really weird is that the entire folder structure was left in place in the My Documents folder. More info on this (Gary - did you post on TechNet?) would be appreciated - it game me a damn nervous couple of hours until I found the files, I can tell you. I wasted about two hours trying to figure out how they were hidden (I assumed user permissions) in the folders - never through they would ALL be moved. Ken And the same here. Over 350GB of data in D:\My Documents all moved into the $inplace.~tr folder – specifically, D:\$inplace.~tr\Machine\DATA\My Documents. What was really weird is that the entire folder structure was left in place in the My Documents folder. More info on this (Gary – did you post on TechNet?) would be appreciated – it game me a damn nervous couple of hours until I found the files, I can tell you. I wasted about two hours trying to figure out how they were hidden (I assumed user permissions) in the folders – never through they would ALL be moved. Ken

]]> By: Gary http://www.itwriting.com/blog/1691-in-place-upgrade-adventures-with-windows-7.html/comment-page-1#comment-148824 Gary Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:28:56 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/?p=1691#comment-148824 I had the same issue...I have a second drive with all my data, as I have removeable drives with multiple OS's. The W7 upgrade from Vista took it upon itself to attempt a move of all my data from the "My Documents" folder on the data drive. Imagine my surprize when I attempted to access my data. Doh! The folders were there, but no data! Found them in the "$INPLACE.~TR" folder on that drive. It is almost as if the file moving failed mid-way, because I can't find them any where on the OS drive. I need to post this on the MS Tech site. BTW, I did have a recent backup, but didn't look forward to restoring a couple of hundred gigs of data. Gary I had the same issue…I have a second drive with all my data, as I have removeable drives with multiple OS’s.

The W7 upgrade from Vista took it upon itself to attempt a move of all my data from the “My Documents” folder on the data drive. Imagine my surprize when I attempted to access my data. Doh! The folders were there, but no data!

Found them in the “$INPLACE.~TR” folder on that drive.

It is almost as if the file moving failed mid-way, because I can’t find them any where on the OS drive.

I need to post this on the MS Tech site.

BTW, I did have a recent backup, but didn’t look forward to restoring a couple of hundred gigs of data.

Gary

]]> By: Adrian http://www.itwriting.com/blog/1691-in-place-upgrade-adventures-with-windows-7.html/comment-page-1#comment-142006 Adrian Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:28:11 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/?p=1691#comment-142006 I carried out an upgrade from Vista Ultimate and discovered that it had moved a large amount of my Public folder, which I had resited on my D: drive. I eventually located where all my files had gone, it had put them all into a system directory called $INPLACE.~TR. I was able to relocate all my Mail PST files within this directory, etc. A little concerning that files placed on a different drive all got seemingly deleted. Most of my Public folders were EMPTY after the upgrade, I was just glad I located all the files, as otherwise I would have lost a couple of weeks worth of email. (I run Backups on a periodic basis before anyone wonders) I carried out an upgrade from Vista Ultimate and discovered that it had moved a large amount of my Public folder, which I had resited on my D: drive.

I eventually located where all my files had gone, it had put them all into a system directory called $INPLACE.~TR.

I was able to relocate all my Mail PST files within this directory, etc.

A little concerning that files placed on a different drive all got seemingly deleted.

Most of my Public folders were EMPTY after the upgrade, I was just glad I located all the files, as otherwise I would have lost a couple of weeks worth of email. (I run Backups on a periodic basis before anyone wonders)

]]> By: Nigel Leaney http://www.itwriting.com/blog/1691-in-place-upgrade-adventures-with-windows-7.html/comment-page-1#comment-139899 Nigel Leaney Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:57:47 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/?p=1691#comment-139899 I've upgraded several machines from different versions of Vista to Windows 7 and had one instance that was stumping both me and the upgrade process. I finally worked out that becuase I had dual boot (Vista & W2K8) on the machine, the process stalled at 20% of the gathering files, settings and programs stage without any further progress being made. Removing the dual boot capability with BCDEDIT and deleting the partition (it was only for testing so I was lucky to be able to take this approach) has sorted it and the upgrade is going well now... I’ve upgraded several machines from different versions of Vista to Windows 7 and had one instance that was stumping both me and the upgrade process.

I finally worked out that becuase I had dual boot (Vista & W2K8) on the machine, the process stalled at 20% of the gathering files, settings and programs stage without any further progress being made.

Removing the dual boot capability with BCDEDIT and deleting the partition (it was only for testing so I was lucky to be able to take this approach) has sorted it and the upgrade is going well now…

]]> By: Kyle Miller http://www.itwriting.com/blog/1691-in-place-upgrade-adventures-with-windows-7.html/comment-page-1#comment-139696 Kyle Miller Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:37:43 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/?p=1691#comment-139696 I upgraded a Vista Ultimate (x86) and a Vista Business (x64) to Win 7 Ultimate and Win 7 Professional. Both upgrades went very well. It was a little slow, but it's a pretty complex task it's accomplishing. Also, I heard you can get significant install speed gains by installing off a USB memory stick. There's a site with the directions on how to. I give Win 7 two thumbs up so far. It is more responsive to the user than Vista (XP users will like this.) and maintains an on-average superior interface to XP. I upgraded a Vista Ultimate (x86) and a Vista Business (x64) to Win 7 Ultimate and Win 7 Professional. Both upgrades went very well. It was a little slow, but it’s a pretty complex task it’s accomplishing. Also, I heard you can get significant install speed gains by installing off a USB memory stick. There’s a site with the directions on how to.

I give Win 7 two thumbs up so far. It is more responsive to the user than Vista (XP users will like this.) and maintains an on-average superior interface to XP.

]]> By: Mark Wilson http://www.itwriting.com/blog/1691-in-place-upgrade-adventures-with-windows-7.html/comment-page-1#comment-139525 Mark Wilson Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:21:04 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/?p=1691#comment-139525 @Tim - no worries, I just thought I'd ask. BTW, if you delete any user profiles that are on other drives, it will allow you to run setup... I'll work out how to get the data back later :-) @Tim – no worries, I just thought I’d ask. BTW, if you delete any user profiles that are on other drives, it will allow you to run setup… I’ll work out how to get the data back later :-)

]]> By: tim http://www.itwriting.com/blog/1691-in-place-upgrade-adventures-with-windows-7.html/comment-page-1#comment-139519 tim Sat, 08 Aug 2009 15:48:34 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/?p=1691#comment-139519 @Mark I don't know of any way, sorry, though there might be a command line option or something in unattend.xml? Tim @Mark I don’t know of any way, sorry, though there might be a command line option or something in unattend.xml?

Tim

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