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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (14299)	11/22/2003 12:22:45 PM
From: Jon Tara	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

This is what happens when you don't know what you are doing, put two OSs in the same hard drive partition, and get things all jumbled-up. I can't say I didn't warn you. Yes, I mean to be harsh. Should serve as a good warning to others. Don't try this at home, kids! You are much, much better off, when upgrading from one major OS version to another, to start over on a fresh hard drive, reinstalling all of your software on the new OS. To get your data files over, either copy them to offline media and then copy them (or import, as appropriate for the particular program) to the new system, or mount the old drive on the new system and treat as "read only", copying data files to the new drive. And I would definately recommend making a backup copy of the drive before starting on ANY major upgrade or reorganization. Drives are cheap. A lot cheaper than the potential cost of ignoring this advice. To be fair, dealing with Windows software installation and data organization is as complicated and obtuse as the user interface is easy and transparent. Linux users have it made in this regard. There is no *&^%! registry - programs keeps their settings in data files - often simple human-readable text files. (Weren't .ini files a joy?) Most programs and data can simply be copied from one system or hard drive to another, and will just work, just like in the good old DOS days.