And next time you are asked to back up data, do that.. creating an image is
not the same as backing up data..


"Lowered Expectations" <LoweredExpectations@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
in message news:59BCFE3E-C432-4F66-B246-8A6106036FC0@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
>
>
> Kudos! Thank you, Robert, for such positive and creative thinking.
> Because I am a dummy (this is the first time for me to hear about VM), and
> because my track record with even simple installations is not too good, I
> probably should just bite the weenie they want me to eat, and pay for the
> upgrade. That will be a moral defeat, sure, but it is promised by
> "Anytime
> Upgrade" to be super EZ and safe.
>
> Really though, if I buy the upgrade key for $199 from Amazon, that's a
> 100kb
> download, and there, it's done. Microsoft makes no mention of any
> possibility of loss of the license key or possibility of failure.
> Microsoft
> leads me to want to believe that they never gloss or oversimplify
> prospects,
> in order, I guess to brighten their primrose path. Maybe I should trust
> them
> again, inasmuch as their gun is at my head.
>
> To be very sure, however =I only need to know now=, that IF I upgrade this
> present "clean install" of Basic, to Ultimate,
>
> then can I for sure for sure for sure! regain my former files, programs,
> settings of the RC1 installation?
> Thanks!
>
> ____________________
> Robert, I am a poet-type of comic fool. In appreciation for your aid and
> positive thinking... Virtual Machine? Hard to believe, but I never heard
> of
> "VM" stuff before now. You fire my imagination. You get for a gift, what
> used to be called an "ode".
> And although humorous, the appreciation extended to you is genuine:
>
>
> =Ode to Robert Moir=
>
> I would lay a laurel
> at your VM feet
> if I had a laurel
> and United Parcel's fleet...
>
> ...if I even knew
> what a laurel was,
> and if I had some VM hands
> instead of my mental fuzz.
>
>
>
> "Robert Moir" wrote:
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>>
>> "Lowered Expectations" <LoweredExpectations@discussions.microsoft.com>
>> wrote
>> in message news:FC6AB26E-9DAB-4CB1-977C-019B4DDD22D6@microsoft.com...
>>[color=darkred]
>> > So I'm screwed. I paid for Vista. I can't have my data back unless I
>> > get
>> > (am told elswhere here) Ultimate or something near that.
>> >
>> > Phooey. If anyone has a solution short of suicide of the user, please
>> > tell.
>> > WHAT were they thinking????[/color]
>>
>> Set up a Virtual Machine (VMware ought to work, not sure about Virtual PC
>> 2007 and Vista basic).
>>
>> Install a _trial_ version of Vista Ultimate in the virtual machine.
>> Restore backup in virtual machine
>> Transfer data to the real machine from the virtual machine.
>> Make sure you've got everything then delete \ uninstall the virtual
>> machine.
>> Pour yourself a drink of whatever your favourate beverage is for a
>> victory
>> sip. You've earned it.
>>
>> --
>> Robert Moir
>> [url]http://www.rhymeswithgeek.com[/url]
>>
>>
>>[/color][/color]

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MS MVP Windows Shell/User
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