more or less, me question is about the most reliable way to restore user files and programs in a clean install of windows 7. I am upgrading a windows 7 professional to windows 7 ultimate to enable multi-monitor support in remote desktop.
I have never had very good luck at all with backups, disc images, system restore points. I always find that when you get to the point of having to use these recovery tools, many of them have become corrupt themselves or otherwise unusable. just the other day, I tried to use EaseUS Todo Backup Free to restore a system image.. in the boot-time recovery environment, the restore failed with an "invalid data" error and then decided to wipe my hard drive clean.. did it not verify the image before trying to mount it? why would it delete all partitions first and then allow for a write failure and effectively format the drive RAW??
anyways, I'm guessing a disc image would not work because it would just restore the previous edition of my OS (windows 7 professional) along with it.
is it even worth the trouble of doing a clean install rather than just an upgrade via the windows anytime upgrade advisor? the only performance comparisons I could find were for upgrading between vista and win7, which is a no-brainer
anyways, I cannot afford for this computer to be down for an extended period of time during this process (i.e. clean install, no backup, re-install EVERYTHING)!!
please and thank you for any responses!!
JChap1590
I have never had very good luck at all with backups, disc images, system restore points. I always find that when you get to the point of having to use these recovery tools, many of them have become corrupt themselves or otherwise unusable. just the other day, I tried to use EaseUS Todo Backup Free to restore a system image.. in the boot-time recovery environment, the restore failed with an "invalid data" error and then decided to wipe my hard drive clean.. did it not verify the image before trying to mount it? why would it delete all partitions first and then allow for a write failure and effectively format the drive RAW??
anyways, I'm guessing a disc image would not work because it would just restore the previous edition of my OS (windows 7 professional) along with it.
is it even worth the trouble of doing a clean install rather than just an upgrade via the windows anytime upgrade advisor? the only performance comparisons I could find were for upgrading between vista and win7, which is a no-brainer
anyways, I cannot afford for this computer to be down for an extended period of time during this process (i.e. clean install, no backup, re-install EVERYTHING)!!
please and thank you for any responses!!
JChap1590
