Vista Upgrade Caution

I usually never do an upgrade with a beta but since I have had such poor
luck getting a VPN client to work I thought I would try an upgrade. I didnt
bother backing up my profile resident data (favorites, my docs, etc) as I
have my profile (documents and settings) on the d:\ and the OS is installed
on the C:\
I upgraded to Vista and it performed as poorly as I thought it would (Dell
latitude D610). I re-ghosted down my C:\ volume and figured I would be right
back where I started. Oh-no, not at all!
What *seems* to have happened is that during the upgrade, Vista MOVED, NOT
COPIED everything from my profile to its new profile location on C:\Users.
When I re-imaged my C:\ of course I blew all that away. Ugh .... I am now
working through a bunch of undelete programs. What's everyones favorite?

Chris

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"Chris H" <chris dot haaker at gmail dot com> wrote in message
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>I usually never do an upgrade with a beta but since I have had such poor
>luck getting a VPN client to work I thought I would try an upgrade. I didnt
>bother backing up my profile resident data (favorites, my docs, etc) as I
>have my profile (documents and settings) on the d:\ and the OS is installed
>on the C:\
> I upgraded to Vista and it performed as poorly as I thought it would (Dell
> latitude D610). I re-ghosted down my C:\ volume and figured I would be
> right back where I started. Oh-no, not at all!
> What *seems* to have happened is that during the upgrade, Vista MOVED, NOT
> COPIED everything from my profile to its new profile location on C:\Users.
> When I re-imaged my C:\ of course I blew all that away. Ugh .... I am now
> working through a bunch of undelete programs. What's everyones favorite?
>
> Chris
>
>

I thought that it copies your profile (contents of c:\documents and settings)
to an temp directory then copies it to c:\users. I say thought because I'm
running a fresh install after trying to upgrade and ran into permission
problems and can't check but I think i remember seeing my profiles in another
location other than c:\users when I was trouble shooting.

"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:

> Well, your results would make a good report, suggest you send in the
> feedback:
> For Feedback:
> http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=55160
>
> Feedback reporting tool:
> http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=43655
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>
>
> "Chris H" <chris dot haaker at gmail dot com> wrote in message
> news:OX9syYnhGHA.4304@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> >I usually never do an upgrade with a beta but since I have had such poor
> >luck getting a VPN client to work I thought I would try an upgrade. I didnt
> >bother backing up my profile resident data (favorites, my docs, etc) as I
> >have my profile (documents and settings) on the d:\ and the OS is installed
> >on the C:\
> > I upgraded to Vista and it performed as poorly as I thought it would (Dell
> > latitude D610). I re-ghosted down my C:\ volume and figured I would be
> > right back where I started. Oh-no, not at all!
> > What *seems* to have happened is that during the upgrade, Vista MOVED, NOT
> > COPIED everything from my profile to its new profile location on C:\Users.
> > When I re-imaged my C:\ of course I blew all that away. Ugh .... I am now
> > working through a bunch of undelete programs. What's everyones favorite?
> >
> > Chris
> >
> >
>
>
>

Wyatt, I noticed some persons discussing about being unable to access their
document and settings folder after upgrading. So, I suspect it creates a
replica of the folder in the Users folder after an upgrade.
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"wyatt" <wyatt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:ACEC455A-3F0C-48CE-A4DC-8B98FE22BF49@microsoft.com...
>I thought that it copies your profile (contents of c:\documents and
>settings)
> to an temp directory then copies it to c:\users. I say thought because
> I'm
> running a fresh install after trying to upgrade and ran into permission
> problems and can't check but I think i remember seeing my profiles in
> another
> location other than c:\users when I was trouble shooting.
>
> "Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:
>
>> Well, your results would make a good report, suggest you send in the
>> feedback:
>> For Feedback:
>> http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=55160
>>
>> Feedback reporting tool:
>> http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=43655
>> --
>> --
>> Andre
>> Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com
>> Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com
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>> http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
>>
>>
>>
>> "Chris H" <chris dot haaker at gmail dot com> wrote in message
>> news:OX9syYnhGHA.4304@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> >I usually never do an upgrade with a beta but since I have had such poor
>> >luck getting a VPN client to work I thought I would try an upgrade. I
>> >didnt
>> >bother backing up my profile resident data (favorites, my docs, etc) as
>> >I
>> >have my profile (documents and settings) on the d:\ and the OS is
>> >installed
>> >on the C:\
>> > I upgraded to Vista and it performed as poorly as I thought it would
>> > (Dell
>> > latitude D610). I re-ghosted down my C:\ volume and figured I would be
>> > right back where I started. Oh-no, not at all!
>> > What *seems* to have happened is that during the upgrade, Vista MOVED,
>> > NOT
>> > COPIED everything from my profile to its new profile location on
>> > C:\Users.
>> > When I re-imaged my C:\ of course I blew all that away. Ugh .... I am
>> > now
>> > working through a bunch of undelete programs. What's everyones
>> > favorite?
>> >
>> > Chris
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>