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Jeff
I decided that enough time and work had passed to go ahead and upgrade my
Media Center PC to Vista Home Premium. I wanted to do an upgrade to preserve
all the software installations, family's investment in music libraries, mail,
and other personal settings AND the matrix said it would be doable--didn't
have to do a fresh install.
So I cranked up my Vista UPgrade DVD after doing a complete ntbackup of the
XP system and uninstalled the few software packages it said wouldn't be
compatible and went ahead to install on the same primrary partitiion that XP
was installed on.
After it was done it was apparent that the upgrade had NOT upgraded and
transferred any of the software or any of the user settings. NOt a good
sign. It also had not transferred any of the hardware device settings since
it couldn't id the network card.
So I decided to follow a MS article to roll back to XP. That's another
whole story about problems with the Docs and Settings folder not being
identifiable. I still don't understand what went wrong--think it was a SID
issue --and I don't really know how I was able to restore the XP docs and
settings finally after much problem.
But my question is WHAT DID I DO WRONG? where did I make the mistake and the
upgrade failed to bring everything along that it could? I think it was at
the part where one chooses default or custom install but someone at the
office said he didn't trust that Media Center 2005 was upgradeable to Vista
HOme Premium.
Is there a way to use a ntbackup file from within Vista? to restore that
stuff after the fact? I don't think so esp for device drivers and software
installs.
Thanks for any help.
Media Center PC to Vista Home Premium. I wanted to do an upgrade to preserve
all the software installations, family's investment in music libraries, mail,
and other personal settings AND the matrix said it would be doable--didn't
have to do a fresh install.
So I cranked up my Vista UPgrade DVD after doing a complete ntbackup of the
XP system and uninstalled the few software packages it said wouldn't be
compatible and went ahead to install on the same primrary partitiion that XP
was installed on.
After it was done it was apparent that the upgrade had NOT upgraded and
transferred any of the software or any of the user settings. NOt a good
sign. It also had not transferred any of the hardware device settings since
it couldn't id the network card.
So I decided to follow a MS article to roll back to XP. That's another
whole story about problems with the Docs and Settings folder not being
identifiable. I still don't understand what went wrong--think it was a SID
issue --and I don't really know how I was able to restore the XP docs and
settings finally after much problem.
But my question is WHAT DID I DO WRONG? where did I make the mistake and the
upgrade failed to bring everything along that it could? I think it was at
the part where one chooses default or custom install but someone at the
office said he didn't trust that Media Center 2005 was upgradeable to Vista
HOme Premium.
Is there a way to use a ntbackup file from within Vista? to restore that
stuff after the fact? I don't think so esp for device drivers and software
installs.
Thanks for any help.