Lost Files Or Programs?

[Guest]

Has anyone lost files on an update from Xp to Vista?

I know this is a beta release and anything can go wrong and it's nobody's
fault but mine, but before getting to it I would like to know if someone has
experienced this situation.

This would be great information for all of us not so experienced and with
data on our disks that we rather not lose.

By the way, all of you that are dying to respond like this "wait until final
release", "backup your data", or a similar answer... in advance thanks for
your brilliant imput... I KNOW ALL OF THAT!!!!!

I'm desperate to install this beta and i don't have means to backup about
100Gb of data, not exactly the solution to world hunger, mostly music and
such, so... anyway...

To all answers thanks!

 

[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

No, but you can lose functionality in some applications and some programs
might require updating before they are functional again under Vista. I
suggest running the Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor to help diagnose problems
from now:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/upgradeadvisor/default.mspx
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[Zack Whittaker]

Some programs in Program Files for example work fine when they're brought
over - Resource Hacker, even the Upgrade Advisor - because they don't use
any registry entries. Anything that has an registry entry on upgrade, *may*
and most likely will fail afterwards - Messenger for example.

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