[clue] [Windows] Upgrading OS

dennisjperkins at comcast.net dennisjperkins at comcast.net
Fri Apr 1 11:35:38 MDT 2011


I don't know but it seems to be the favorite holiday for hackers. :) 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Bean" <beandaemon at gmail.com> 
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Sent: Friday, April 1, 2011 10:28:38 AM 
Subject: Re: [clue] [Windows] Upgrading OS 

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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