UPGRADE WORKS PERFECTLY

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I WAS PLEASENTLY SURPRISED TO SEE MICROSOFT HAS GOT THE UPGRADE OPTION SORTED
OUT. I THOUGHT I WOULD BE A DEVIL AND GIVE THE PRE RC1 A WHIRL VIA UPGRADE
RATHER THAN CLEAN INSTALL EXPECTING MANY PROBLEMS. EVERY THING WORKS
PERFECTLY SO FAR APART FROM PC CHILLIN WHICH I HAD TO REINSTALL.
 
There is no need to 'yell' Neil (with CAPITALS).
On the other hand, great to hear it went well.
 
Neil Maley said:
I WAS PLEASENTLY SURPRISED TO SEE MICROSOFT HAS GOT THE UPGRADE OPTION
SORTED
OUT. I THOUGHT I WOULD BE A DEVIL AND GIVE THE PRE RC1 A WHIRL VIA UPGRADE
RATHER THAN CLEAN INSTALL EXPECTING MANY PROBLEMS. EVERY THING WORKS
PERFECTLY SO FAR APART FROM PC CHILLIN WHICH I HAD TO REINSTALL.
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Mind the caps :-)
How long did it take to upgrade? My full install took about 45 minutes.
 
Know what you mean about the caps now I've read it on the board! Stricktly a
low case man from now on.

It took going on for an hour start to finish. There was a new option during
the pre install that asked if I wanted to let Windows conntect to the
internet during the installation for up to date installation files. I said it
could do this and for the first fifteen minutes or so it was doing some
pretty intensive downloading. Did that happen on the clean install?

Neil.
 
Neil Maley said:
Know what you mean about the caps now I've read it on the board! Stricktly
a
low case man from now on.

It took going on for an hour start to finish. There was a new option
during
the pre install that asked if I wanted to let Windows conntect to the
internet during the installation for up to date installation files. I said
it
could do this and for the first fifteen minutes or so it was doing some
pretty intensive downloading. Did that happen on the clean install?
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Yes I started the install from the XP desktop. I allowed it to download the
extra install files (that took about a minute) and then did a custom install
to a second partition.
Worked seamlessly. Maybe yours took longer as it might have needed extra
files being it an upgraded over XP?
 
My updgrade install took almost 4 hours although it went without a hitch.

Generally things are much better except that I am no longer able to install
the XP driver for my 32 mb ATI 128 rage ultra graphic chip. I'm stuck with
Standard VGA. Also Pc Cillin doesn't work
 
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