WOW it totally destroyed my system

[Lloyd Sheen]

1. Vista Ultimate would not upgrade from XP
2. Phoned support
3. Was told to give them time since it was day one (after 5 years it
hardly is day one for MS employees I would hope and especially the support
people)
4. Now I am told it that it has determined that it will not update and it
has already gotten rid of XP licence
5. The XP license is good
6. Ok now onward to get my PC from being an anchor.
7. Reinstall XP
8. Attempt upgrade (no good again)
9. Use different key from that provided by MS
10. Now it upgrades
11. Take a look OH MY GOD
12. I had moved all files etc to another partition even though my first
attempt was to simply upgrade XP.
13. On that partition various random folder has left the system.
14. On some of those folders I have all the utility programs I use etc.
15. MS THEY ARE ALL GONE

and as a footnote, after spending 4 hours on the phone with support I get a
phone call about an hour later and this guy want to know if he can close the
case. He was much more interested in the paper work rather than the fact
that the software that the company he worked for was so flawed. I guess
that says alot about MS and their support.

I have been a MS developer for the last 15 year and have often taken their
side when arguments about their software occur. NO LONGER. I SEE MS FOR
WHAT IT IS (or has become).


Lloyd Sheen

 

[Dave B.]

Any good developer would have an off system backup of their important data,
what happened to yours?

--

 

[philo]

1. Vista Ultimate would not upgrade from XP
2. Phoned support
3. Was told to give them time since it was day one (after 5 years it
hardly is day one for MS employees I would hope and especially the support

<snip>


That's why I tell everyone who wants to upgrade their OS to:


1) Be sure *all* needed data is backed up at least once

2) Not to actually upgrade ...but install the new OS on another partition
and dual boot...
then as any bugs are worked out...gradually migrate over. No matter
what...there will be a working OS
to fall back on.

 

[Zim Babwe]

What would have happened if you did not upgrade your system, and your hard
drive died? Where would your data be?

 

[Spaz]

I NEVER upgrade on top of an old operating system. I save all my needed
files to another hard drive and then wipe the old drive completely, install
the new operating system, defrag about 4 times, and go from there.

I thought all "experienced developers" do it that way.

 

[Robert Moir]

Lloyd Sheen wrote:

I have been a MS developer for the last 15 year and have often taken
their side when arguments about their software occur. NO LONGER. I
SEE MS FOR WHAT IT IS (or has become).

While I sympathise, surely someone who has been developing for at least 15
years would have enough experience to be able to restore from the offline
backup they must have taken prior to doing this kind of thing?

 

[Troy McClure]

dude... no WAY installing vista on 1 partition deleted folder on another
partition. theres no possible way other than USER ERROR.

by now youve probably discovered what you did wrong, but youll never admit
it

 

[Leythos]

Only a fool does an install of anything without a proper backup. Only a
BIGGER fool installs an upgrade to their OS without a proper backup.