My Windows 7 Ultimate upgrade experience rates 7 out of 7!
I’ve been dying to do this upgrade for a while, and I finally did the upgrade to Windows 7 Ultimate! Yes, I said “upgrade”, mostly because I just wasn’t ready to do a full OS rebuild on my Core i7. But I also wanted to try out the upgrade feature that is so highly acclaimed…
Sixty-five minutes later… I was pleasantly surprised!
There are several choices in the Windows 7 OS realm… but as many of you know, I’m into the Extreme side of things…
Since I was upgrading from Vista 64 Ultimate, this update was a snap! While your PC is running, just pop in the Windows 7 Ultimate disk and the process begins…
There were a few pre-requisite checks, and the update did a cursory check of installed apps, etc. And with my current Intel Extreme Core i7 and Smackover motherboard, along with the Intel X-25M SSD - my hardware is DEFINITELY up to the game!
After the hour long process, a few simple updates were needed - re-authorizing iTunes - install a newer version of Skype - update xFire to it’s latest version - oh, and I turned off UAC (just bugs me!)
I was done! Wait, seriously - No quirks? no hiccups? no missing data? - WOW! I’m definitely impressed! If you are wondering how your upgrade process will go, this blog shoud give some reassurance that the task works great!
Since my blog last February, I’ve done a few updates - thanks to reader recommendations! I’ve added the 2nd GTX260 video card - which runs in SLI on the DX58SO motherboard. I’ve also upgraded to an LG Blu-Ray Read/Write drive. Most likely, I’ll be adding a second X25-M SSD soon… maybe with a DX11 video card upgrade.
I’ve been lucky enough to be part of the Windows 7 BETA test plan at work, but now I’m fully on-board at home too! Please respond with your thoughts and own Windows 7 installation and upgrade experiences!
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Oct 22 | Sandeep said:
Windows 7 Rocks !!!
Much MUCH Faster Than Vista, With Loads of Softwares & Gadgets, Its Another Milestone in MS' Journey. 100% Compatible With Practically All Kinda Motherboads & As Said Earlier Easily Upgradable From Earlier Win OS'.
Oct 24 | contract management said:
Mine was flawless; it is RAID 0 with three VelociRaptor drives, add-on RAID hardware controller and an Invidia 200-series video card. It is a dream machine!!! Microsoft, keep up the good work.
Oct 26 | Todd Christ said:
Very nice! I'm impressed that even the RAID worked on your upgrade!
I've had TONS of requests asking about the option of upgrading versus a fresh build - whatever you choose, make sure you backup any important data.
Nov 01 | Sonic said:
Hmmm
I only have an AMD 2.6 Quad 9950 cpu, asus m3a32 MB or something like that and 4 gig ddr2 Ram,
Clean install of 7 only took 35mins,
No upgrades of any programs needed, all worked first go.
Todd, why did it take your much more powerfull pc 65mins to install,
I have a slow poke compared to yours but only 30mins for me to install, what gives, must be that intel chip holding up the install time, nothing new from intel again.
Nov 02 | Todd Christ said:
Hi Sonic - my process was an upgrade, so I had almost 900,000 files, settings and programs to migrate between Vista x64 and Windows 7 - MUCH different from a new installation. If you check google, you will find stories similar to mine, but you'll also find some where it took over 12 hours to do the upgrade - it's all about how 'complex' your previous build was.
65 minutes is pretty stellar for an update...
http://yfrog.com/7d32percentj
most 'new' builds that I've done take about 12-20 minutes.