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Windows 7 upgrade

zarobian

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Posted October 26, 2009 at 8:40AM

Windows 7 upgrade problems
I received my Win 7 Home premium DVD and tried to upgrade my Windows Vista Home premium. First of all I got the compatibility issues as under:
1. Acronis 10;
2.iTunes;
3.Microsoft Active Sync;
4.Windows Mobile Device 6.1
Solution
I uninstalled these programs and then proceeded with upgrade. During expanding installation files an error is thrown out with code no. 0x80070570. Which roughly is about a corrupted system file?
I stopped the process and checked my drive for errors. No errors found. I could not do fsc /scannow as my Vista is preinstalled and I have only recovery DVD’s.
I retried but every time the same error. The upgrade suited me well as I have lot of useful applications preinstalled.
I was left with no choice but to partition my HD and installed win7 on the new partition successfully.I still prefer the upgrade if a solution is found.
Mini OS
Microsoft rightly code named Win7 as mini OS. Windows mail and Windows Movie maker along with other applications are left out.

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david1985

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Posted October 26, 2009 at 11:48AM

Windows Mail and Movie Maker aren't built in, but you can get Movie Maker and Windows Live Mail for free on-line. They've basically taken some stuff out of the pre-installation to make it optional instead.

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zarobian

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Posted October 26, 2009 at 5:09PM

Thanks for the response and suggestions. I have now upgraded to Win 7 successfuly and checked my emails using Virgin Media Webmail. My documents were also deleted in the process but got these restored from my backup flash drive.
Thanks again.

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