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Vista Home Premium to Win 7 Ultimate failed

Nov 7, 2009 4:09AM PST

My son gave me a free copy of Win 7 Ultimate so I thought I would try a Vista upgrade. The only incompatibility was one of my adapters. Anyway, two tries ended with the transfer of files and setting getting stuck for hours. Then I did the custom install with no problem at all.

New drivers were needed for most everything but the biggest problem was the driver for my Atheros Wireless adapter. The Vista driver worked for my install of Windows 7 RC but it won't work for this install.

So I sat there looking at a fancy desktop and I couldn't connect to the internet. I made a True Image backup and will work on it sometime when I have absolutely nothing else to do.

I am back to Windows XP on my second hard drive where I work 99% of the time anyway.

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Actually the Vista Atheros driver worked
Nov 7, 2009 5:46AM PST

It worked after it was extracted but there must be some obscure setting that is not right because it cannot find a network...the one I am using now on XP.

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Widows 7 RC runs fine
Nov 7, 2009 11:55PM PST

I should have also mentioned that I have had Windows 7 RC running on this computer for months with no problem.

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(NT) best to do a clean install -- fprmat disk then install
Nov 9, 2009 11:52AM PST
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Windows 7 isn't worth a clean install
Nov 11, 2009 7:18AM PST

I gave the disk back to my son.