Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor didn't finish and restore to Windows Vista

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  Try to restore from backup in Vista from USB drive external... get the backup the value indicated, but says the location is not available... yet Windows Explorer displays the player is here and shows the disk backup sets... How to restore?

  Hello

  The program used to back up the data on the external hard drive?

  Did you restore the files before sucessfully?

  First of all, make sure that you enter the location of backup to restore the files. Chances are that you might have entered the wrong drive whereby you are gettting this error meesage. If you have used backup and restore utility under Windows, go through the links below that will help you to restore files.

  Restore files from a backup
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/restore-files-from-a-backup

  Back up and restore: frequently asked questions
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/back-up-and-restore-frequently-asked-questions

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  http://support.Microsoft.com/default.aspx/KB/970914

  Let us know if this helps

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• Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor does not install

  Hi I posted this on the Vista forum. I got 1 response suggesting I have try to download it again, as I did with the same result. The 2nd answer said not to post this question on the forum of Vista. If she is here now on this forum.

  I downloaded the UpgradeAdvisor a Windows 7 at the same time a running Windows Vista my PC Edition Home Premium and the other Windows XP. It will not install on each PC. I double click on the downloaded file and am asked in Vista to continue, I click "Yes" and then nothing happens. There is no sign of any program running or running any process that did not work until I tried to install the Advisor. Please can someone help. (I tried to disable the system security McAfee but that did not help).

  Well thank you for the suggestion of Steve of Microsoft Developer Network. I tried to download another copy to another location. Unfortunately exactly the same result. Yesterday I download about 5 times in different places, none worked, but I thought I'd try again today - same result. Am I the only person having this problem?

  I followed the advice on another thread closely linked to it. Someone (non-Microsoft) advised using a program called "Winrar" to unzip the file to the millisecond. You can download free Winrar (shareware). I tried and it works very well. It unpacks the MS then called "self-extracting" file downloaded from MS site above and shows you the content. I selected the provedure of installation for the Upgrade Advisor for 32 bits, and low and you installed the Upgrade Advisor on my machine.

  I ran with success of the counselor and am at a complete loss to understand why Microsoft technicians could not have told me in this simple direction rather than give me useless and very lengthy procedures which did not work.

  The adviser tells me that I can upgrade to Windows 7 Home Premium or WIndows 7 MegaSuperCostULoads (or whatever its name). I'm not sure I want now, or if I trust Microsoft more. Maybe I'll switch to Ubuntu.

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• Can I upgrade to Windows Vista or Windows 7?

  I have a HP Pavilion 523n 2002, which has an AMD Athlon 1.67 GHz microprocessor.   He has been up with 2 GB of memory, hard drives 150 MB and 320 MB, a Startech USB 2.0/IEEE1394 PCI card and a video card ATI all-in-Wonder 7500/64 MB DDR AGP.  It came with Windows XP Home Edition is installed.  Is it possible to upgrade my computer with Windows Vista or Windows 7?

  Hello:

  I do not think because the video card is not windows Vista or 7 capable. There may be other hardware not able either.

  The best thing to do is to download and run the Upgrade Advisor free windows 7, which will signal the backward compatibility of your PC with windows 7.

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/downloads/Upgrade-Advisor

  Plug in and turn on any peripheral equipment (printers, scanners, etc.), you, and she will report on their compatibility too.

  Paul

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  I'm about to go from 8.1 to 10 & followed a Dell advises pop-up on upgrading the version of BACKUP and RESTORE I want to make sure that I have the system & data backup before you take the leap win10

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  Please can someone advise? I've been trawling the net for a possible solution without success.

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  I gave up on the dell system backup B & a. Note there was a premium account.

  I did as Okaganafan suggested and backed up my data using Windows history file. I have win8.1 & the system maximum return was not available. But I managed to manually run the Windows Image backup.

  I also took a manual backup of my data to an external drive, created an ISO to win 8.1 (just in case).

  The win10 upgrade was painless, even if, as expected, it took some time. It has been ~ 24 hours well. Dell B R & updated now too & suggest that do all kinds of disks of backup & recovery. I'll make those soon.

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• Not to install windows 7 Professional to windows vista home premium.

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  You must do a clean install of windows 7 Professional with a full license of Windows 7

  and have you run the windows Upgrade Advisor 7?

  and you have the specifications of systerm in windows 7?

  and acer windows 7 drivers available for your model deo0s machine?

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• Cannot start Windows Vista after you download updates

  Original title: the last time I got a windows vista download it did.not end now if I turn off my computer it won, t wiyhout restart using a rescue disk also can, t open all files except when I connect

  Last time I had a windows down load it didn, t finished and my computer locked up had to use a rescue disk to start

  Hiartco1993,

  1. do you know what download you tried?

  2. do you receive error messages or error codes?

  3 have you tried booting in safe mode?

  You can first try to start in safe mode and try a system restore and check if it helps.

  Step 1:

  You can try to start in safe mode.

  Check out the link for more information on starting your computer in SafeMode below:

  Start your computer in safe mode

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/start-your-computer-in-safe-mode

  Step 2:

  You can try restoring the system to safe mode.

  Note: When you perform the system restore to restore the computer to a previous state, programs and updates that you have installed are removed.

  You can consult the links for:

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  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/What-is-System-Restore

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  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/system-restore-frequently-asked-questions

  Hope this information is useful.

  Jeremy K
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• Why can I not see the files I back up by using the backup and restore of Vista

  Can someone help me?  I have a Dell Inspiron 1525 and implemented backup and restore feature Vista so that every Sunday he automatically backs up my computer to my external drive.  I was on the computer when he said it starts up and that upward was completed successfully.  I assummed everything was fine until today when I show my father my drive external and noticed that none of the backup of files were there... or at least I did not see them.  The only files on the disk were the ones I put manually on here from my old computer.  I then ran a manual upward using Vista and again it says backup successfully completed.  I then watched the external hard drive and once again no new files.  The strange thing is the back up and restore program shows all the dates he has saved and also allows me to restore files from the back to the top.  To do this, I deleted a file I didn't really need out of my hard drive and then is gone to restore program and found the file and restored.  Problem is that the program does not say where he makes the file from.  What is going on?  Are backup files of certain types of hidden file I don't see unless I use the backup and restore program under vista?  I am currently running Vista Home Premium on a 32 bit system and the external hard drive I have is a Western Digital My Book Essential Edition.

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• Reference Dell backup and restore (Premium Edition) 1.7.5.63

  Since upgrading my software Dell backup and restore to version 1.7.5.63, I now have problems to make it past the "Dell backup and recovery Please Wait" screen.

  I'm not leaving this option to run for more than 8 hours, but found that this process is not always successful. The only way I could find to block this process to run is to click on the? at the top right of the screen, then select "activity log". At this time, I clicked on the home button to take back me to the Dell Backup and Recovery Premium Edition home page and close the application. However, when I tried to re - open the application again, it brings back me to the screen "Dell backup and recovery Please Wait".

  To solve this problem, I tried to restore from a previous backup I made of the Dell Backup and Recovery application but it failed miserably and corrupted my hard drive and operating system (Windows 8.1). So the only way I could get back to who had to go back to my backup bootable disks that I created when I arrived to my laptop Dell Latitude E6530.

  Then I had re-installed all the 100 + updates of Windows for upgrade to Windows Pro 8.1 by the Windows store. From there, I upgraded my software "Dell backup and restore (Premium Edition)" at 1.7.5.63 and had the same problem again.

  In any case to have a fix for this or tell me how I can raise an incident with Dell, because this is so ignorant and frustrating.

  If I uninstall my Dell Backup and recovery software (Premium Edition) and reinstall the version found in http://www.dellbackupandrecovery.com/en-us/Index.html , but the last time I did, it installed the basic edition and not the Premium edition.

  All right enough the last time I had problems with my Dell backup and recovery (Premium Edition) software, it seems to settle on the other updated after a few months, but I don't don't want really to go back to an earlier backup with an older version of the recovery (Premium Edition) software and backup Dell.

  Any help or advice, you would be extremely grateful.

  I'm shocked that Dell is detrimental to Windows backup in Windows 7 Professional.  Your comments here persuade me not to pay for the premium edition.  Various people on other internet research said Dell had a great program backup, 6 months ago, but weakened while it is able to sell a version Premium, also hobble the program backup Windows.  You might try a free backup software like Comodo as I suspect that you can not use the Windows backup which makes a backup with files image.  It was a very simple approach that Dell seems to have stuck in their new versions of Windows 7 Professional.  I restarted my computer because of this kind of game.  Since I bought it at Costco, I have 90 days to return it.  I also started watching a series of online backups.  Carbonite seems terribly clutter my computer, and while highly recommended, it is slow, slow, slow.  I am CrashPlan that seems to work much much much faster.  Both of these are paid services.  CrashPlan has a lot of versatility to accommodate beginners to evolve into something much more powerful.  They have free versions for recording to hard drives and other computers.  The online version has Unlimited storage, much versatility, without the limits other plans have, and it's only 4-6 dollars per month, depending on the current sales and payment terms.

• Reconfigure Vista Home Center backup and restore

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  Click the number of the KB article and see if this will help you to change the location of the backup settings.
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  You can use the automatic FIXIT or there is instruction manual in the article.

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• Does she not get the restored properly - Windows Vista Edition family

  I did a backup on 2 of vdv - that, once accomplished was reported as successful. Now, I have restored my laptop to factory settings since she was infected. When I use the Center backup and restore and Advanced Restore option - files from a backup made on a different computer - then the hard drive. He starts the backup asking if some files or all - I choose all files in the backup. It then proceeds...

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  When I check - I find a lot of files is restored, but they contain no data/files.

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  1. after the start of "backup and Restore Center."

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  4 choose "files from a backup made on a different computer.

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  9. I was frustrated, but then I somehow just select this backup (Yes... even if he said that the backup location is not available " ")

  10. and you press "next".

  11 guess what... no error!

  12. a window appeared asking me if I wanted to do a full restore, or I want to select specific folders or files.

  13. I selected the folders I wanted to restore and bingo... it their restored smoothly.

  14. so that the next time see a mistake, try to continue with him... ;)

  I don't know if this will help, but it does not provide much information about the process (when it works).  I hope you find any error or discrepancy in your procedure and it will clear up and allow you to restore.

  I hope this helps.

  Good luck! Lorien - MCSA/MCSE/network + / has + - if this post solves your problem, please click the 'Mark as answer' or 'Useful' button at the top of this message. Marking a post as answer, or relatively useful, you help others find the answer more quickly.

• Windows 7 upgrade advisor, Vista, says that Firefox must be uninstalled before the upgrade and that I won't be able to reinstall it, is it true?

  I'm currently running Vista, 32-bit. I am considering upgrading to Windows 7. I ran the report Upgrade Advisor and he said "Mozilla Firefox 20.0.1 must be uninstalled before the upgrade to Windows 7. You will be able to reinstall it after upgrading to Windows 7. "This seems inaccurate info, based on the Firefox site, but I want to check what I have to do before you start the upgrade. Leave Firefox installed and in place when I update or uninstall and reinstall then after the upgrade?

  Hello herplaw, you're right, this doesn't look good - firefox will work fine on windows 7. I leave it installed and to proceed with the update. in any case (if you need to reinstall it later), you can also save personal information that is stored in your firefox profile before continuing: back up and restore the information contained in the profiles of Firefox

• You want to upgrade Windows Vista to Windows 7 Professional. I ran the Windows Upgrade Advisor, and he told me that I can upgrade to Windows 7 Home Premium and Ultimate. Why not professional?

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• Windows Upgrade Advisor has encountered a problem and needs to close

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  Some people have found solutions in this thread.

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