18 hours to upgrade to Vista
Last night after dinner I settled down with CSI, Scrubs, and the Office on my Comcast HD DVRs with the intention of upgrading my Fujitsu 7120D to Vista in the background. I had oy mac G4 laptop as a secondary to answer email, and search for answers to upgrade problems, etc.
Luckily, I had the foresight to go to the Fujitsu site and grab all the Vista drivers and put them in a folder on my desktop (my computer desktop is a lot like my real desk - see above) so I could easily access them during the upgrade.
Like every large software migration project, nothing went as planned!
First, my Mac G4 crashed. I heard the hard drive clicking, and then death. Now it starts up and can't find a drive to boot from. Great. Another thing to deal with later.
Second, upgrading an existing system to Vista takes a long, long time. I had previously installed a beta clean on an old laptop, and that wasn't too bad. But when it has to go through and check every program and driver already installed for compatibilty, you can probably triple the time.
Of course, none of my drivers came with Vista, so this morning after the install finished (yes, it was running all night) i had to go through the arduous task of de-install and reboot about 10 times.
Finally, about 18 hours later, I had a running copy of Vista! I still have 2 bum drivers I can't track down and annoying message about a ZoneLabs driver for which i cannot seem to locate the source program, but so far, everything seems to work from the software side of things, which is pretty surprising, actually.
Well, there's a few things like it renames all your personal folders from names like "My Music" to "Music" - so every program that had these as a preference can no longer find my files, but that's just a minor annoyance.
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