[clue] [Windows] Upgrading OS

[Mike Bean]

Note to self - really must remember. April Fools. (sigh)  Who came up with
this holiday?

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Mike Bean <beandaemon at gmail.com> wrote:

> I can't decide if you're deliberately trying to be incendiary, or if you
> just are misguided and posting in the wrong place.   (shrug)  Sorry it
> didn't work out for you, but unless I'm really missing something obvious,
> there's no in-place-upgrade method.    At a bare minimum, you'll have to
> reformat to NTFS.  I suppose you probably could shrink your partition, dual
> boot with Win 7, copy the stuff over, and then expand the NTFS partition,
> but that strikes me as unnecessarily complex.  Best advice.   Back your
> stuff up, wipe and reload.
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 9:37 AM, <grant at amadensor.com> wrote:
>
>> I am working on upgrading my Debian 6.0 machine to Windows 7.  I am
>> looking for the increased reliability, lower overall cost, and the
>> ability to run the only real browser, Internet Explorer, without
>> jumping through so many hoops.
>>
>> Does anyone have any ideas for doing an in place upgrade, so I don't
>> have to back up all of my data to an external drive?   It is over a
>> terabyte, and will take a long time to copy off and back.  I would
>> like to at least keep my home partition.
>>
>> Ideally, I would be able to use it as is from Windows 7.   I would
>> also like to transfer over all of my applications too, but expect that
>> I will need to reinstall most of them from scratch.  Has anyone gotten
>> K3B working in Win 7?
>>
>>
>>
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