{"id":16,"date":"2007-01-13T00:10:18","date_gmt":"2007-01-13T06:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d2.degen.net\/?p=26"},"modified":"2007-01-13T00:10:18","modified_gmt":"2007-01-13T06:10:18","slug":"vista-%e2%80%93-the-upgrade-not-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"Vista \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The Upgrade: Not so much"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 11PM on a stormy Friday night and I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get to sleep so I figure, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153hey let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s start my Vista upgrade, what could go wrong!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/font><\/p>\n

First off, I run the Vista pre-install inspection validation thing, after it grind away for a bit it comes back with a series of messages indicating that I have a couple of verboten apps (Nero and Alcohol), so traveling the safe route go ahead and un-install these, reboot and let the install\/upgrade begin.<\/font><\/p>\n

My first choice is do I want to hit MS (internet) prior to the install to incorporate any new Vista updates; sounds like a great idea, so I give it a go. After about three minutes of a scrolling progress bar the message pops back that this connection could not be made and I will need to run updates later.\u00c2\u00a0 Ok, sure whatever, next.<\/font><\/p>\n

Ah, next comes the opportunity to enter my Software Key. I slap in my MSDN Vista Ultimate key \u00e2\u20ac\u201c ok done. Thinking\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Thinking\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Another few minutes go by, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m confronted with a list of apps that might not work under Vista. This appears to be the same as the list I say in the Analysis tool I ran before, these are listed as warnings only, so I proceed with upgrade.<\/font><\/p>\n

Finally I get a screen with some kind of numerical progress info.<\/font><\/p>\n

Coping Windows Files XX% \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/font><\/p>\n

Gathering Files<\/font><\/p>\n

Expanding Files<\/font><\/p>\n

Installing features and updates<\/font><\/p>\n

Completing upgrade<\/font><\/p>\n

After about 20 minutes of grinding away, the Vista Upgrade was ready to reboot and continue the install.<\/font><\/p>\n

Upon reboot my lilo Linux boot loader, was gone \u00e2\u20ac\u201c in its place a windows boot selector, with options to load the previous version of windows (XP Pro) or to continue the upgrade, when I selected continue I was greeted with the Blue Screen of Death; just lovely. <\/font><\/p>\n

I verified that my XP install was still intact \u00e2\u20ac\u201c thank goodness, next let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s scrap the upgrade and go with a fresh install.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/font><\/p>\n

So about an hour or so invested to discover that just like many previous builds of Windows, in-place upgrades are not the way to go \ud83d\ude41<\/font>. <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 11PM on a stormy Friday night and I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get to sleep so I figure, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153hey let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s start my Vista upgrade, what could go wrong!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d First off, I run the Vista pre-install inspection validation thing, after it grind away for a bit it comes back with a series of messages indicating that I have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}