Vista upgrade

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So I am thinking of changing some hardware in my pc and updating from vista to 7 at the same time. As a student I can get the upgrade package for around 40 pounds so it is saving a huge amount of money over the retail version, however i have a few questions that i need some help with.

1. I have heard that the upgrades are not ideal and can cause problems so is it worth saving the money and getting the upgrade ?

2 I also want to move to an ssd from an old WD green drive. I have looked into it and i cant see anyway to use the upgrade to install on the new ssd , is that correct ?

Thanks
Andrew
 
The Upgrade can be run as a 'Clean' install.. dunno how mind you!.. someone will be along soon to explain how!! :D
 
RiseAgainst said:
So I am thinking of changing some hardware in my pc and updating from vista to 7 at the same time. As a student I can get the upgrade package for around 40 pounds so it is saving a huge amount of money over the retail version, however i have a few questions that i need some help with.

1. I have heard that the upgrades are not ideal and can cause problems so is it worth saving the money and getting the upgrade ?

2 I also want to move to an ssd from an old WD green drive. I have looked into it and i cant see anyway to use the upgrade to install on the new ssd , is that correct ?

Thanks
Andrew
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  1. Upgrades don't cause the issues they used to, especially from Vista. There's no need to clean install if you don't want to.
  2. You'll need to copy Vista from your HDD to the SSD first and then upgrade.
 
thanks burnsy, how would i go about moving vista as I don't have the disk because it was pre installed. Also the ssd will be a lot smaller so it would not work to clone that hard drive
 
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Hmm. Upgrades aren't quite as bad as they used to be, but I would still do a clean install every time, even with Windows 7. It may well go ok, but nothing beats a clean install for how fast the OS runs afterwards.

If you don't, do make sure you have everything well backed up.
 
I would do a clean install of Windows 7 on a SSD.

Vista C: partition has a drive alignment in 1MB. Windows 7 does something different and puts a 100MB recovery partition before C:

Not done it myself, but meant to be able to do a clean install using upgrade media. *Link removed as wrong site*

If that doesn't work, may be all W7 asks for is a valid XP/Vista product key instead of requiring previous OS installation on same drive.

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Donkeyfumbler said:
Hmm. Upgrades aren't quite as bad as they used to be, but I would still do a clean install every time, even with Windows 7. It may well go ok, but nothing beats a clean install for how fast the OS runs afterwards.
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I upgraded Vista on my previous machine. I saw no perceivable performance increase by clean installing.
 
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