Hi Al, Keep in mind that if you copy the drivers from the XP system, they may not be compatible with Windows 7. Go to the computer manufacturer's website, and using your model number, look for Win7 compatible drivers for your hardware. HTH, Rick Justice ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Robbins" <arobb...@nycap.rr.com> To: "Blind-Computing" <blind-computing@jaws-users.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 10:51 AM Subject: [Blind-Computing] XP to Win 7
Most of my home network is already Win 7. However I still have an old Acer computer that meets Win 7 OS specs and I'd like to put a copy of Win 7 on it to use as a backup. If XP was not being discontinued in a year I'd just leave as is. Now for the challenge and hopefully some list advice. Since it is an Acer computer the unit came with XP preinstalled along with a bunch of stuff. So I do not have a driver disk with all necessary drivers for the system. I know I could go with a Win 7 upgrade but I have never been a proponent of that. I feel that is just asking to migrate any issues I've ever had on the XP box into the Win 7 OS. I favor a clean install over a freshly formatted drive. I believe in the past I had read of some software available that could be run on an existing OS and copy all necessary drivers to an export file or CD? Otherwise I don't know of any way to get the drivers off the factory restore disk. Thanks, Al For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
