Today for Mother’s Day I thought I might upgrade my wife’s computer to have her try out the Windows 7 RC1 that’s now available. She’s been having some odd issues with her Vista installation randomly locking up, so I thought I’d install Windows 7 and see what she thought about the new operating system.
The problem though is that from what I read on the Windows 7 download site and installation instructions, it’s a complete fresh install of the OS. Anything on the hard drive is lost. The verbiage talked about having to backup everything and then reinstalling the programs you use once the Windows 7 RC1 files are installed.
I understand that it’s beta software and use at my own risk, but sure wish I didn’t have to lose everything on my wife’s computer to take Windows 7 for a spin. That wouldn’t be much of a Mother’s Day present.