I had a moment of insanity....why not upgrade from XP- Windows 7....hmmm sounds easy, lets try it!!!
Well start with the lap top as it is vista, thing go very smoothly....piece of cake no problems....lets try XP now..... first mistake, there is no way to "upgrade" from XP without wiping it of the system. Sure they tell you to download a program from microsoft that will "save all your data and convert it to something that 7 will understand"....that sort of happened. "Widows 7 will now install new operating system and your old XP will be deleted"... that did not happen. 4 hours to save old data to a portable hard drive,2 hours to load windows 7 and 2 hours to download old data back in. Now I seem to have 2 operating systems, alot of my hard drive used up and a lot of data that can't be opened
Not to mention that every program that used XP needs new drivers downloaded or is incompatible
Time for some medication...... glug glug glug...... nope the "computer fairies" never came
this is one of those times I guess that I should have A. Left it alone. As a wise person told me from a long distance "don't fix what ain't broke" Damn I can't through anything that far
B. Just wiped the computer and plead ignorance as to "what happened to all my cat photo's" (she who must be obeyed has thousands of them)
C. Taken the computer to some one who knows more than I do. Hindsight is a wonderfull thing
Morale of story, see A.
