New Laptop data transfer and Win 7

[Giga]

Hi, finally replacing my 5 year old acer for similar. Would like to keep XP
and all my data on C and D drive and put the new OS (Win 7) on a new E drive
and have the choice to use either OS, at start up presumably. Any ideas how
I would go about setting this up? Would just an external enclosure do the
trick, just run XP on that? Would the programmes still work (which is why
I'm doing this)?

Also any comments about Win 7? Haven't heard too much so I guess its
alright, at least compared to the disaster which was the Vista lauch from my
POV?

 

[Brian Jackson]

Hi, finally replacing my 5 year old acer for similar. Would like to keep
XP
and all my data on C and D drive and put the new OS (Win 7) on a new E
drive
and have the choice to use either OS, at start up presumably. Any ideas
how
I would go about setting this up? Would just an external enclosure do the
trick, just run XP on that? Would the programmes still work (which is why
I'm doing this)?

Also any comments about Win 7? Haven't heard too much so I guess its
alright, at least compared to the disaster which was the Vista lauch from
my
POV?

I would partition the C drive and put WIN7 on one partition and XP on the
alternative partion ........ When you boot up you will be given the choice
of which version of windows you wish to start up in.

However ......... you do not need XP if your upgrading to WIN7. Windows 7
has an XP compatibilty mode that is excellent!

Windows 7 is awesome compared to Vista! Very quick ........ only issues so
far are that some older hardware such as webcams and some printers do not
have any drivers available.

 

[John E. Carty]

I would partition the C drive and put WIN7 on one partition and XP on the
alternative partion ........ When you boot up you will be given the choice
of which version of windows you wish to start up in.


However ......... you do not need XP if your upgrading to WIN7. Windows 7
has an XP compatibilty mode that is excellent!

Only if your CPU supports virtualization and not if you have games that only
run on XP, unless you want them running slow as mud

 

[Canuck57]

I would partition the C drive and put WIN7 on one partition and XP on
the alternative partion ........ When you boot up you will be given the
choice of which version of windows you wish to start up in.

However ......... you do not need XP if your upgrading to WIN7. Windows
7 has an XP compatibilty mode that is excellent!

Windows 7 is awesome compared to Vista! Very quick ........ only issues
so far are that some older hardware such as webcams and some printers do
not have any drivers available.

Show me a benchmark from a credible source. Not hypebole. I couldn't
tell the difference other than the Aero cut some frames to appear faster
at the cost of looking chuncky.

 

[Giga]

I would partition the C drive and put WIN7 on one partition and XP on the
alternative partion ........ When you boot up you will be given the choice
of which version of windows you wish to start up in.

However ......... you do not need XP if your upgrading to WIN7. Windows 7
has an XP compatibilty mode that is excellent!

Windows 7 is awesome compared to Vista! Very quick ........ only issues so
far are that some older hardware such as webcams and some printers do not
have any drivers available.

Great, so I could perhaps format the new laptop's drive, copy my old drive
to it completely then install win7 over the XP and it should all still run.
Just witha bigger drive and better laptop?

 

[Giga]

Only if your CPU supports virtualization and not if you have games that
only run on XP, unless you want them running slow as mud

Not using any games atm, not sure which CPU should be avoided tho?

 

[Brian Jackson]

Great, so I could perhaps format the new laptop's drive, copy my old drive
to it completely then install win7 over the XP and it should all still
run. Just witha bigger drive and better laptop?

If you copy your old drive onto your new laptop before installing WIN7 you
will lose all your personal files!

Put your WIN 7 disc in your drive (after saving any files you wish to keep
into other media ie: DVD or memory stick) WIN 7 should ask if you want to do
a "Clean" Install ........ Pick that option ......... WIN 7 will then
download. When finished go to Microsoft Updates and obtain the various
updates required. Then pull off your required files and folders from the
media you saved them too! You can download WIN7 over XP as an upgrade, but I
am reading everywhere on help sites that this is not the Ideal way to do it
and that a CLEAN Install is preferable!

 

[Giga]

If you copy your old drive onto your new laptop before installing WIN7 you
will lose all your personal files!

Put your WIN 7 disc in your drive (after saving any files you wish to keep
into other media ie: DVD or memory stick) WIN 7 should ask if you want to
do a "Clean" Install ........ Pick that option ......... WIN 7 will then
download. When finished go to Microsoft Updates and obtain the various
updates required. Then pull off your required files and folders from the
media you saved them too! You can download WIN7 over XP as an upgrade, but
I am reading everywhere on help sites that this is not the Ideal way to do
it and that a CLEAN Install is preferable!

OK, cheers.