Anybody know if I need to reinstall my Windows on BootCamp? Hi - not sure if this is the right place to ask, but will this upgrade affect my current Boot Camp installations (with reFit)?
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You shouldn't have to. Snow Leopard will have new boot camp drivers, so after install, boot into windows with the DVD in the drive and the update installer should start...
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I don't have bootcamp set up at the moment but I couldn't see why not. If you format it to run on both windows and mac should be fine?
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An upgrade keeps other programs installed on the computer intact with no need to locate installation disks for those programs so in my opinion an upgrade is the preferred way to go. I am not sure if the upgrade must be from ultimate to ultimate version. My upgrade was from vista ultimate to windows 7 ultimate which was problem free.
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I will tell you my experience and you can decide for yourself. I purchased the Suite good for 3 computers and downloaded it on one to begin with. No problem with the installation, ran the security scan and all was well. I then went to use the tune-up program and as soon as I hit "Fix my computer", it crashed. I have not been able to get Windows 8.1 to boot up or load ever since. I am going to have to take it to see if it can be repaired or not.
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Yes you can. I did that and it worked but the game performance was too slow to suit my son. So we uninstalled it and installed it again using Boot Camp. This way it works much faster.
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You need to Boot Windows 7 on your Mac - if you have it installed. If you don't, buy Windows 7 and then follow Macintosh instruction for Boot Camp Utility. Get an i7 with 8gb ram or face hot laptop and sketchy graphic jumping.
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For some reason Windows 7 would rather upgrade from Vista to 7. If you try a clean install 7 will ask for Vista disk, load some of it and move on back to 7. Why, I really don't know BUT the Vista to 7 upgrade went fantastic and I have had no problems.
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no you dont...just use your preexisting disc, or software. if you have the software, you can burn it on a disc or put it in a bootable usb drive.make sure you back up everything on your hard drive, cos the system will delete everything so it can be installed on the hard drive.ive had the problems many times, but for some reason, one day, my hard drive was able to have windows on it...
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upgrading Vista 32 bit is no problem at all. Upgrading Xp 32 bit can be a nightmare! With xp you have to do a clean install. This means the program wipes out everything on your hard drive and you lose everything. Make sure you back up all your files and data. Once installed you will need all the original disks for whatever software programs you were running on xp or be able to download them from the Internet. You CAN NOT install your software programs from a backup. The next problem that arises is when it asks you for the product key to type in DON'T DO IT!!!!!!! Just hit the enter key and bypass this screen. You can install the product key after windows seven has been install on the computer. Here is why, if you type the product key in when it asks you to and windows has already formated the hard drive you may get a invalid product key message. Now you can't go anywhere in the program. If you start all over again windows doesn't find XP on the hard drive because it has already wipe everything off the hard drive and since this is a upgrade it won't install the program because it can't find XP. Now you are going to spend hours with Microsoft getting the problem corrected. I have installed this 8 times on XP computers and it is not easy and it takes up to about four hours to install on some slow 32 bit machines plus you won't believe how many updates have to be installed. Some computers all night to install them. Don't purchase this program until you run The windows 7 advisor program from Microsoft to see if your computer will run it. Some computers don't have the right requirements to run windows 7. AGAIN FIRST THING TO DO IS RUN THE WINDOWS 7 ADVISOR PROGRAM IT IS EASY TO DOWNLOAD FROM MICROSOFT. Once the software is opened up no one will take it back, EVER! I hope this helps. You may want to look at windows 7 system builder instead of this version.
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I did the upgrade, which was very simple. In all honesty the process was simplified by MS and worked great. My only other comment is that the 'learning curve' for Win 8 itself was not as easy as all of the other upgrades. This new OS is so radically different, that you will in fact be forced to work at learning it.
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J. Brum..... I would first suggest contacting their CS dept. and get as much help as possible from them. They're fantastic people there and want their program to work for everyone. If they don't suggest completely deleting and reinstalling the simulator, that may be another option to try. I personally had purchased v.4 well over a year ago and I just received notice of v.5 within the last month, being available for download. I had no issues downloading or installing the upgrade. I also am running Windows 7 Home Premium. I hope this helps somewhat.
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Is 12 Premium out? Really? Where have I been? So I'm using it on 11.5 with NO ISSUES at all. I'm very pleased. Hope that helps. And now I'm on my way over to Nuance! &lt;wink&gt;
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i read in one of the revies that the guy hated W8 and went thru hoops to uninstall. think he formated drive and installed W7 but still had problems. I came from vista to W8 so little learning curve,....but lots of utube videos to ease the pain of learning curve. i was on 32 bit vista n this is 64 bit tech. i stored stuff in 32g thumb and moved to W8. some programs had to be updated for W8, or W7 cuz of the 64 bit thing but all works great. Updates for W7 seem to work fine on W8 platform, hope this helps u!
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I'm also looking for this upgrade but I have a feeling we've been given bad information. I don't see anywhere on the VMware website about a free upgrade for recently purchased product. Only a paid upgrade. Chris L, where is it that you are entering your serial number online?
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I wish that I could answer this with 100% confidence, but I can't. I'm guessing that you won't have any issues as it has all of the proper timings and settings. The install is very easy, so I would just try it out. Do give the system plenty of time to boot. First time I booted with the new memory, I "freaked out" a bit thinking that the system wasn't going to boot - AGAIN - with a memory upgrade. I had tried some other memory that I had laying around.... that was a flop! It did boot, it just seemed to take a bit longer than the first time. Good luck!
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I called customer support about the Windows 7 issue and Liz assured me that this Toshiba will receive the Free Windows 7 upgrade. I called this morning! That was one issue keeping me from ordering. I feel better now.
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just do a fresh install its better! saves hassle and driver issue's and so on of many issue's, but those issues don't happen alot ! but non the less just get a windows 7 dvd or windows 7 bootable USB drive, Choose in bios to BOOT the windows 7 bootble usb drive install windows 7, it won't take you like 15mins.i'v used this SSD i got like 3 of them ! 1 on desktop! as boot drive for windows 7 1 on a MAC book pro for MAC OSX + Windows 71 on a normal laptop for windows 7 - linux !! and they all work perfectly fine ;)