Barry....
What software do you recommend for this?
Thanks
Larry


"Barry Watzman" <WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com> wrote in message
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> Frankly, if you lost anything, I have no sympathy for you. It was idiotic
> to do this without an image backup, and an image backup would have
> restored EVERYTHING to EXACTLY the way it was before you started.
>
> Beyond that, I don't think that your story will prove to be typical. I
> think that most people will get through the upgrade without extreme
> difficulty. Now as to whether, having made the leap from XP to Vista,
> they are happy, well, that's another matter, and quite a few may elect to
> go back to XP. Partly, that will reflect Vista's strengths and
> weaknesses, and partly it may be the normal aversion to anything that's
> different.
>
>
> Ray wrote:
>> I got a new HP Pavilion dv6000us laptop for Christmas with a free upgrade
>> to Vista premium.
>>
>> The other day the upgrade disc came, and it seemed easy enough to
>> install. As urged, I made one of those "All-in-One" recovery disc sets --
>> just in case.
>>
>> I was no more than three or four steps into the install before things
>> started to go haywire. I finally got Vista installed, but all my files
>> were lost. And in addition, it allowed me no more than 1040 by 768 screen
>> resolution.
>>
>> So I used the recovery discs to go back to XP. I could only get a clean
>> new reinstall -- all my files were lost.
>>
>> Just a cautionary note. If you want Vista, buy a machine with it already
>> installed.