I am running the Win 7 upgrade advisor as we speak and hopefully it will point things like this out
Thanks Al -----Original Message----- From: Blind-Computing [mailto:blind-computing-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of inthaneelf Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 4:47 PM To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] XP to Win 7 yes, I think there is going to be a problem though. I don't think the drivers for XP will work in Vista or win 7, vista ones worked most of the time in 7 but not XP drivers from what I remember. you might want to access the acer site and see if they have vista/windows 7 drivers for your machine, and/or use driver Magician to make a list of the drivers you need and hunt them up if there available prior to your install HTH, inthane -----Original Message----- From: Blind-Computing [mailto:blind-computing-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of David Ferrin Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 11:28 AM To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] XP to Win 7 Driver Magician will do the job. I have been using it for over a year already and it has served me well. David Ferrin Always be yourself because the people that matter don't mind, and the ones that mind don't matter. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-Computing [mailto:blind-computing-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Alan Robbins Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 10:51 AM To: Blind-Computing 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/ 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/
