Upgrading XP to windows 7 quickly.

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leaplae

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#133737 31-Oct-2013 21:40

Hi Guys,

Bit of a strange question / idea, I am wondering what you guys think about it....

I have been tasked with upgrading a Xp Point of Sale machine to Windows 7, with the machine not being used between 6 pm and 4.30 am, and as you can imagine this is no easy task, especially dealing with the EFTPOS integration etc.

I had a idea of using a blank hard drive on another machine, installing Windows 7 on it (not licencing it yet), and copying all data across, and setting up all the programs, and making sure everything is working, then swap out the hard drives (temp machine hdd to xp machine), install drivers, and licence windows, so if something is incompatible / doesn't work the old hdd can be replaced with no harm done.

Will this work / are there any big problems with this?

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#925160 31-Oct-2013 21:45

how about cloning the hard drive, take an image onto external HDD etc so you can roll back

upgrade then if it all fails you can easily put the old image back on

leaplae

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#925201 31-Oct-2013 22:42

I would do that, but I am worried about the timing, as I am not sure that I can do the upgrade fast enough.

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#925204 31-Oct-2013 22:48

Tell them computer is old and should be replaced. Then setup new computer to as close to ready as possible, swap out and final customise.

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#925245 1-Nov-2013 01:13

I speak from experience here, Telecom had to upgrade their store computers from XP to 7 but only had 2 hours per store to do it, configure Eftpos etc. The way we did it was by simply swapping out the PC's with one pre-built then reimage those machines outside of the store for the next store except in this case it was whole new machines and the old machines were recycled and used for other things in the store. Best way to avoid the whole waiting for install is just use an image, even swap out the hard drives with an image with 7 on it and change the product key with each install, configure POS + Eftpos, done.

Tip: to avoid headaches let your Eftpos company know, they normally only have skeleton staff at this time in order to auth the new pinpads but this way they can plan in advance if you plan on doing a few.

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