Channel 9 Forums - Coffeehouse - How to Upgrade from Win 7 to Win 8? http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 Forums - Coffeehouse - How to Upgrade from Win 7 to Win 8? http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums en Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:20:22 GMT Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:20:22 GMT Rev9 9 -9 -1 Coffeehouse - How to Upgrade from Win 7 to Win 8? I have one question. I am using Win 7 on my laptop form last 1.5 years, now i want to upgrade it to win 8. I know that its gonna cost me $40 but my concern is do I need to have a backup of all my data before upgrading or what? Will my data be lost or it just upgrade windows files? I have to re-install all of the programs which are stored in program files in windows drive? Kindly do let me know what to do?

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/How-to-Upgrade-from-Win-7-to-Win-8/f75d65b1b4964124ac6aa13000dba1cc#f75d65b1b4964124ac6aa13000dba1cc Sun, 23 Dec 2012 13:19:39 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/How-to-Upgrade-from-Win-7-to-Win-8/f75d65b1b4964124ac6aa13000dba1cc#f75d65b1b4964124ac6aa13000dba1cc maz007 9 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/flyingcolourin/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - How to Upgrade from Win 7 to Win 8? I upgraded from Win7 to Win8 and didn't lose any data -- I would recommend backing up beforehand in any case, but an in-place upgrade went smoothly.

Herbie

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/How-to-Upgrade-from-Win-7-to-Win-8/94cac191eb0f4c12a6b8a13000dfd220#94cac191eb0f4c12a6b8a13000dfd220 Sun, 23 Dec 2012 13:34:54 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/How-to-Upgrade-from-Win-7-to-Win-8/94cac191eb0f4c12a6b8a13000dfd220#94cac191eb0f4c12a6b8a13000dfd220 maz007 9 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/flyingcolourin/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - How to Upgrade from Win 7 to Win 8? I havent tried upgrading from windows 7 home to win 8 ultimate, but have tried vista home to win 7 ultimate and win7 to win 8 upgrades all of which migrate the installed programs to new OS.

If you have a lot of programs installed the process takes a lot of time ( hours...somebody even reported 20 hours in one of the forums). The upgrade process nornally gives a compatibility report in advance and is useful in most scenarios.

Before upgrade try to install the latest BIOS and driver versions on the old OS as it is one of the problems faced during the upgrade.

Hope this helps.

 

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The only software that needed any repairing was a virtual CD that I sometimes use, and all I had to do was re-install it.  Everything else I had was fine and just works in Win8.

Herbie

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, flyingcolou​rin wrote

Also I am using Win 7 Home edition, But i want to upgrade to Win 8 Ultimate edition. Is it possible? If yes, then how to do it?

As far as I know, the only retail x86 versions of Windows 8 are "Windows 8" and "Windows 8 Pro". From what I read, everything but Windows 7 Enterprise can be upgraded to Windows 8 Pro, so you should be alright. I didn't try that myself though.

What I did try was an in-place upgrade from Windows 7 Professional to Windows 8 Pro on two machines and that went quite well.

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Herbie

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