Windows 7 CD arrived! Upgrade or reinstall?
 

Hmm. . .

My Windows 7 DVD has arrived & I'm contemplating doing an in-place upgrade to my existing Vista 64 install.

Anyone done this?

J

Personally, I'd always do a fresh install. Who knows what rubbish will be left laying around after an upgrade.

Likewise. I did clean Win7 install last night.

Edit: I took an image using VMware vCenter Converter first though :D

I read an article on BBC news today about an upgrade, and it was horrendous!

I can see a lot of casual users going the 'easy' upgrade path having a really bad time.

Geezer

The upgrade was okay (I tried it), but decided to do a fresh install as it is good practice every so often and I've got it down to a fine art now!

Steve

Another vote for a fresh install

As I'm running some odd hardware I'll take a backup - do an inplace upgrade & see what's broken.

Then do a full reinstall.

That was easy.

Ran the Upgrade Advisor Tool - just to make sure my RAID card would be happy.

Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor

And it was.

Backup, format & reinstall - in about 25 minutes.

For a NEW OS, there was already 150meg's worth of patches!

J

If you can do a fresh install its always best, been running windows 7 since it was beta in march and rebuilt with each new disc i got to keep things clean and now running 7 Enterprise. 150Mb of patches ? was that mainly drivers because a fresh install on my laptop only had about 20Mb to do and they were mainly drivers :)

I must admit I didn't look - just hit OK and went for dinner :)